People

Full-Time Faculty

Bei Cheng

Instructor II of Chinese

beicheng@pitt.edu

Yiting Cathy Cheng

Instructor I of Chinese

ycc3@pitt.edu

Frankie Chik

Visiting Lecturer of Premodern Chinese Literature

hic24@pitt.edu

Charles Exley

Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Film; Associate Director of Film and Media Studies

412-648-4025

exley@pitt.edu

Fan Fan

Senior Instructor of Chinese

fanfan@pitt.edu

Hyunju Ha

Instructor 1 of Korean

hyh10@pitt.edu

Sachiko Takabatake Howard

Senior Instructor of Japanese

412-624-5574

showard@pitt.edu

Wanching Jocelyn Hsieh-Meyers

Senior Instructor of Chinese

412-624-3458

wanhsieh@pitt.edu

Soo-Jin Kim

Visiting Instructor I of Korean

sok28@pitt.edu

Mi-Hyun Kim

Teaching Associate Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics

kimmh@pitt.edu

Noriko Kanisawa Kowalchuck

Senior Instructor of Japanese

nokst2@pitt.edu

Stephen Luft

Teaching Associate Professor of Japanese

luft@pitt.edu

Shun Maruyama

Visiting Instructor

maruyama12@pitt.edu

Hiroshi Nara

Professor of Japanese Studies

hnara@pitt.edu

Elizabeth Olyer

Associate Professor of Premodern Japanese Literature, Performance. Department chair.

eaoyler@pitt.edu

Junzo Oshimo

Senior Instructor of Japanese

oshimo@pitt.edu

Kun Qian

Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Film; Film and Media Studies

qiankun@pitt.edu

Seung-hwan Shin

Teaching Associate Professor of Korean Studies; Film and Media Studies

412-624-5564

shs39@pitt.edu

Yi Xu

Professor of Chinese as a Second Language & Language Acquisition

412-624-4923

xuyi@pitt.edu

Part-Time Faculty

Minah Chang

Korean Language

mic187@pitt.edu

Yukiko Otani Deutsch

Japanese Language

yud16@pitt.edu

Jungeun Kim

Korean Language

juk86@pitt.edu

Chisato Ninomiya

Japanese Language

chk55@pitt.edu

Graduate Students

Jade Xu

Graduate Student

Nijun Zhang

niz47@pitt.edu

Zhiji Zhao

Graduate Student

zhz239@pitt.edu

Staff

Kelly Britcher

Faculty Actions Coordinator

412-383-1692

ksb85@pitt.edu

Laura Brooks

Business Coordinator

412-624-8041

laurabrooks@pitt.edu

Amy Burke

Department Coordinator Linguistics and East Asian

4126245512

amb939@pitt.edu

Andrew Gray

Assistant Business Coordinator/Website Coordinator

412-383-0256

asg147@pitt.edu

Stephen Lander

Payroll/Personnel Coordinator

412-624-2695

sll4@pitt.edu

Dyani Monroe

Department Coordinator French and Italian/Spanish and Portuguese

4126485993

dym34@pitt.edu

Michael Orbin

Graduate Administrator

412-624-5227

MIO43@pitt.edu

Anthony Payne

Administrative Officer

a.payne@pitt.edu

Alexandra Rodwick

Events Coordinator

412-638-3564

alr297@pitt.edu

Briar Somerville

Academic Coordinator

412-624-5906

kbs47@pitt.edu

Matthew Spinneweber

Fiscal Administrator

412-383-2797

mjs427@pitt.edu

Emeriti/Former Faculty

Dayle Barnes

Associate Professor Emeritus, Chinese Language

David O. Mills

Associate Professor Emeritus, Japanese Language

412-624-5568

dom@pitt.edu

J. Thomas Rimer

Professor Emeritus, Japanese literature

rimer@pitt.edu

Mae J. Smethurst

Professor Emerita, Classics and Japanese drama

412-624-4476

msmet@pitt.edu

Cecile Chu-Chin Sun

Professor Emerita, Premodern Chinese Literature

csun@pitt.edu

Alumni

Gray Denney

MA 2022, Japanese Studies

GRD30@pitt.edu

Hayley Gerlach

Graduate Student

hrg37@pitt.edu

James Okan Kotey

MA 2022, Japanese Studies

Kayla Smitson

MA 2022, Chinese Studies

MJS324@pitt.edu

David Warner

MA 2022, Chinese Studies

warner_david@hotmail.com