Our People

​Lingchei Letty Chen

• ​Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature
• Head of the Chinese Section Affiliate Professor of Comparative Literature

• E-mail: llchen@wustl.edu

Wenhui Chen

• Senior Lecturer in Chinese

• E-mail: wchen26@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4050

Hea-Young Chun

• Lecturer in Korean

• E-mail: hchun@wustl.edu

​Rebecca Copeland

• Professor of Japanese Language and Literature

• E-mail: copeland@wustl.edu

Linling Gao-Miles

• Lecturer in Global Studies

• E-mail: gao-miles@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-3163

​Beata Grant​

• ​Professor Emerita of Chinese and Religious Studies

• E-mail: bgrant@wustl.edu

Shino​ Hayashi​

• Teaching Professor of Japanese

• E-mail: shayashi@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4904

Robert E.​ Hegel

• ​Professor Emeritus of Chinese Language and Literature

• E-mail: rhegel@wustl.edu

Taewoong Kim

• Lecturer in Korean

• E-mail: kim.t@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4607

Mijeong Mimi​ Kim

• Teaching Professor of Korean Language
• Korean Language Coordinator

• E-mail: mmkim@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4450

Kristina Kleutghen

• E-mail: kleutghen@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4427

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu

• Assistant Professor of History

• E-mail: ulugkuzuoglu@wustl.edu

​Ji-Eun Lee

• Associate Professor of Korean Language and Literature
• Head of the Korean Section​

• E-mail: lee.j@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-3865

Diane Wei ​ Lewis

• ​Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies

• E-mail: dlewis24@wustl.edu

​Xia Liang​

• Teaching Professor of Chinese
• Chinese Language Coordinator

• E-mail: xliang@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4050

​Xinyi Liu

• ​Associate Professor of Archaeology

• E-mail: liuxinyi@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-9472

Zhao​ Ma

• ​Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History and Culture
• Director of Undergraduate Studies

• E-mail: zhaoma@wustl.edu

Ginger​ Marcus

• ​Professor of Practice of Japanese Language

• E-mail: vsmarcus@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4904

Marvin​ Marcus

• ​Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Professor of Japanese Language and Literature and of Comparative Literature Head of the Japanese Section

• E-mail: mhmarcus@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4797

Steven B. Miles​

• Professor of History and of International and Area Studies
• Director of East Asian Studies

• E-mail: smiles@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-7518

Krystel Mowery

• Administrative Coordinator
• East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian Studies program

• E-mail: krystelmowery@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314.935.4448

​Judy Zhijun Mu

• Teaching Professor of Chinese

• E-mail: jzmu@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4050

Jamie Newhard

• Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature
• Director of Graduate Studies

• E-mail: jnewhard@wustl.edu

Ke Nie

• Senior Lecturer in Chinese

• E-mail: knie@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4050

Zihan Qin

• Lecturer in Chinese

• E-mail: zihanqin@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4050

Elizabeth Reynolds

• Postdoctoral Fellow

• E-mail: ereynolds@wustl.edu

Nathan Vedal

• Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature

• E-mail: nvedal@wustl.edu

Jingyi Wang

• Lecturer in Chinese

• E-mail: jingyiwang@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4326

​Wei Wang​

• ​Senior Lecturer in Chinese

• E-mail: wwanga@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4050

​Lori Watt​

• ​Associate Professor of History and of International and Area Studies

• E-mail: loriwatt@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-6710

​Fengtao Wu

• Teaching Professor of Chinese

• E-mail: fwu@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4326

Kanako Yao

• Senior Lecturer in Japanese
• Japanese Language Coordinator

• E-mail: kyao@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4904

Tobias Benedikt Zürn

• Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Religions

• E-mail: tzuern@wustl.edu