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Christopher Diamond

Dr Chris Diamond is a Hindi lecturer at the School of Culture, History and Language in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. Christopher is interested in medieval and early-modern devotional and courtly literatures in Braj Bhasha, Avadhi, Maithili and Bengali. His current work is on the poet Vidyāpati.

Yanyin Zhang

Dr Yanyin Zhang is Senior Lecturer and linguist at the School of Culture, History and Language, specialising in second language acquisition research and education linguistics. Her current research focuses on the processability aspects of language learning and the application of second language acquisition theories to classroom pedagogy.

Duck-Young Lee

Dr Duck-Young Lee is a Reader and Associate Professor at School of Culture, History and Language. His recent research interests are in Japanese-Korean linguistics, sociocultural linguistics, spoken discourse, and Japanese teaching methodology.

Eunseon Kim

Dr Eunseon Kim is a Lecturer at the School of Culture, History and Language in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. Her research interests include language ideology, the history of linguistic thought, and metalinguistic discourses, with a particular emphasis on Korean linguistic etiquette.

Fengyuan Ji

Dr Fengyuan Ji is Senior Lecturer at the School of Culture, History and Language in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. Her research focuses on the relationship between language and thought, political discourse in China from Mao’s time to the present, China’s language policy, Western discourses on China and linguistic landscape.

I Wayan Arka

Associate Professor I Wayan Arka is a Senior Fellow in Linguistics at the School of Culture, History and Language in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. His research interests include descriptive, theoretical and typological linguistics, with a focus on the Austronesian and Papuan languages of Indonesia.

Janit Feangfu

Dr Janit Feangfu is a lecturer in Thai at the School of Culture, History and Language in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. Her research interests include Cold War Thai literature, food memoir, narrative and language learning.

Jenny Homerang

Jenny is the Convenor and Lecturer of the Tok Pisin language program at the School of Culture, History and Language in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. She is currently completing her PhD, researching the practice of periodically honouring lineage land transfer treaties in mortuary ceremonies in a northern New Ireland matrilineal community.

Le Hoang Ngoc Yen

Dr Le Hoang Ngoc Yen is a Lecturer and Convenor of the Vietnamese program at the School of Culture, History and Language in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. In addition to research on health and well-being, stigmatised diseases and disabilities in Vietnam, Yen is interested in languages, cultures and, more recently, food and alternative diets in Asia.

Li Narangoa

Dr Li Narangoa is a Professor of Pacific and Asian History at the School of Culture, History and Language, specialising in modern Japanese and Mongolian history, culture and politics. Her current research interests include Mongolian history, identity and cities; Japan’s relations with other Asian countries; and Japan’s colonial history, religion and military.

Peter Friedlander

Associate Professor Peter Friedlander is a Reader in Hindi and the Deputy Director of Languages at the School of Culture, History Language. Peter’s research is focused on the Old Hindi writings of Sant poets (Raidas, Kabir and Charandas); on the religions of South Asia, Dalit culture and literature; and the use of innovative language teaching methods.

Timothy Hassall

Dr Tim Hassall is Senior Lecturer of Indonesian language at the School of Culture, History and Language in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. His main research interests are second language pragmatics and second language acquisition in study abroad contexts.

Yuko Kinoshita

Dr Yuko Kinoshita is a linguist teaching Japanese language and linguistics at the School of Culture, History and Language in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. Her research interests includes forensic voice comparison, acoustic phonetics and language education policy.

Yuri Takahashi

Dr Yuri Takahashi is the lecturer and convener of Burmese at the School of Culture, History and Language in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. Yuri’s research interests include literature, music, history and culture in Myanmar, Japan and Australia. She. She also has a long-term curiosity about the acceptance of modernity as seen through Burmese literature.