Faculty: Full Listing

Akintunde Akinyemi
Ph.D., Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; 1991; Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Yoruba language and literature; premodern Yoruba poetry and cultural history; Yoruba video-film, popular culture and diaspora studies.
348 Pugh Hall; 352-392-7082
akinyemi@aall.ufl.edu

Avraham Balaban
Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 1979; Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: modern Hebrew poetry and fiction
328 Pugh Hall; 352-392-8216
balaban@aall.ufl.edu

Aida Bamia
Ph.D., University of London, 1971; Professor Emeritus
Research and Teaching Interests: modern Arabic literature, Mashreq- Maghrib, classical Arabic literature, folklore of the Arab world, Arab Islamic civilization, Arabic language, Arab women
abamia@aall.ufl.edu

Cynthia Chennault
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1979; Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: Chinese poetry, literary criticism, social history, with focus on 6 dynasties and Tang Period
353 Pugh Hall; 352-392-2014
cchenna@aall.ufl.edu
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/cchenna/

Chauncey Chu
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1970; Professor Emeritus
Research and Teaching Interests: Chinese language and linguistics, discourse grammar, and functional syntax
chauncey@aall.ufl.edu

Malka Dagan
B.A., Oranim, Qiriat-Tiveon, Israel, 1968; Adjunct Lecturer (Hebrew)
331 Pugh Hall; 352-392-9107
mdagan@aall.ufl.edu

Haig Der-Houssikian
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1969; Professor Emeritus
Research and Teaching Interests: Swahili, Bantu linguistics, creolization, morphology
haig@aall.ufl.edu

Elinore Fresh
MA, University of Hawaii, 1990; ABD University of Hawaii; Senior Lecturer (Chinese)
356 Pugh Hall; 352-273-2957
efresh@aall.ufl.edu

Todd Hasak-Lowy
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002, Assistant Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: contemporary Hebrew fiction, realism, modernism, relation of nationalism, history, and literature
350 Pugh Hall; 352-846-3845
thasak@aall.ufl.edu

Yumiko Hulvey
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1989; Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: classical Japanese prose and poetry, modern fiction by women, premodern cultural history, literary translation
322 Pugh Hall; 352-392-4916
yhulvey@aall.ufl.edu

Susan Kubota
MA, University of Michigan, 1976; Senior Lecturer (Japanese)
334 Pugh Hall; 352-392-1581
skubota@aall.ufl.edu

Fiona Mc Laughlin
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1992; Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: phonology and morphology of Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages: Wolof, Pulaar, Seereer-Siin; ethnography of speaking in the Sahel; language contact in urban Africa; Islam and popular culture in Africa.
305 Pugh Hall; 352-392-4829
fmcl@aall.ufl.edu

Joseph Murphy
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995; Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: modern Japanese literature and film, cultural studies, relation of science and humanities
339 Pugh Hall; 352-392-0275
jmurphy@aall.ufl.edu
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jmurphy

Andrea Pham
Ph.D, University of Toronto, 2001; Assistant Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: phonology, Vietnamese linguistics, phonology-phonetics interface, language change, language and gender, second language acquisition, Vietnamese poetry, Vietnamese language.
343 Pugh Hall; 352-392-7084
apham@aall.ufl.edu

Cynthia Hsien Shen
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1981; Lecturer (Chinese)
341 Pugh Hall; 352-846-2855
cshen@aall.ufl.edu

Ann Wehmeyer
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987; Department Chair and Associate Professor
Research and Teaching Interests: history of linguistics, morphology, Japanese language and linguistics, origins of linguistic investigation in Japan, social and cultural aspects of Japanese language, construction of Kotodama (spirit of word ) belief
301 Pugh Hall; 352-392-2422
wehmeyer@aall.ufl.edu
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/wehmeyer