Faculty

Akiyo Cantrell

Lecturer

Area:Japanese Language
Office:HSSB 2236
Email:am4@ucsb.edu

Shu-Chuan Chen

Lecturer in Chinese language

Area:Chinese Language
Office:HSSB 2234
Email:bellachen@ucsb.edu

Howard Chiang

Professor and Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies

Office:HSSB 2257
Email:howardchiang@ucsb.edu

William Fleming

Associate Professor

Area:Japanese Literature, Comparative Literature, Theater Studies
Office:HSSB 2224
Hours:Tuesdays, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Email:wfleming@ucsb.edu

Sabine Frühstück

Distinguished Professor and Koichi Takashima Chair in Japanese Cultural Studies

Area:Modern and contemporary Japan, history, ethnography
Office:HSSB 2232
Email:fruhstuc@ucsb.edu

Maki Fujita

Area:Japanese Language
Office:HSSB2236
Email:makifujita@ucsb.edu

Susan Hwang

Assistant Professor

Area:Modern Korean Literature, Korean Cultural Studies, Translation Studies, Theories of World Literature
Office:HSSB 2256
Email:shwang@ucsb.edu

Associate Professor

Area:Anthropology, Migration & Diaspora, Aging & Care, Transnationalism, Japan, Brazil, the Philippines
Office:HSSB 2254
Hours:By Appointment
Email:sikeuchi@ucsb.edu

Wona Lee

Lecturer, Program Coordinator

Office:HSSB 2238
Hours:Wednesdays 11 -12:50pm
Email:wonalee@ucsb.edu

Xiaorong Li

Professor

Area:Late Imperial (Ming-Qing) and Early Republican Chinese Literature
Office:HSSB 2227
Email:lixiaor@ucsb.edu

Thomas Mazanec

Associate Professor

Area:Medieval Chinese Poetry, Buddhism, Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Translation
Office:HSSB 2255
Hours:Mondays 1-3pm, https://calendly.com/mazanec/spring-2025-office-hours
Email:mazanec@ucsb.edu

Su Jin Park

Lecturer

Area:Korean language program
Office:HSSB 2216
Hours:Tuesday 11-1pm
Email:spark2@ucsb.edu

Fabio Rambelli

Professor

Area:Japanese Religions and Intellectual History, Buddhism, Shinto, Semiotics
Office:HSSB 2258
Email:rambelli@ucsb.edu

Katherine Saltzman-Li

Associate Professor

Area:Japanese performing arts, Japanese literature, folklore, comparative literature
Office:HSSB 2237
Hours:Please check each quarter.
Email:ksaltzli@ucsb.edu

Dominic Steavu

Associate Professor

Area:Daoism and Chinese Buddhism
Office:
Email:dominicsteavubalint@ucsb.edu

Peter Sturman

Area:Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Early to Modern; intersections of texts, theories, and images
Office:
Email:sturman@ucsb.edu

Yukiko Tsuchiya

Lecturer

Area:Japanese Language
Office:HSSB 2221
Email:ytsuchiya@ucsb.edu

Hangping Xu

Assistant Professor

Area:Queer Disability Studies, Modern Chinese Literature, Asian American Literature, Global Popular Culture, Film/Media Studies, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Taiwan Studies, Environmental Humanities
Office:HSSB 2223
Hours:By appointment only
Email:hangping@ucsb.edu