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Melbourne (Bundoora)

Melbourne (Bundoora) Academic Staff
Melbourne (Bundoora ) Administrative Staff
Melbourne (Bundoora) Honorary/Research Staff

Melbourne (Bundoora) Academic Staff

Name
Position
Research/Teaching Interests
Telephone
Email
Greg Bailey Associate Professor and Program Convenor Sanskrit narrative literature, especially the two epics, the Puranas and Classical Sanskrit poetry; Tamil literature and the socio-economic history associated with the rise of Buddhism +61 3 9479 2134 greg.bailey@latrobe.edu.au
Teresa Castelvetere Lecturer Japanese +61 3 9479 1379 t.castelvetere@latrobe.edu.au
Bhavya Chandrakant Lecturer Hindi   b.chandrakant@latrobe.edu.au
Yangbin Chen Lecturer China studies (ethnicity, social and educational development); Chinese language studies (teaching Chinese as a second language, Chinese sociolinguistics) +61 3 9479 2416 yangbin.chen@latrobe.edu.au
Elise Foxworth Lecturer Post-war Japanese society; Koreans in Japan; Japanese (esp minority) literature; post-colonial studies; Japanese language teaching and literary translation +61 3 9479 1446 e.foxworth@latrobe.edu.au
Bao Qiang Gao Lecturer International and comparative education, contemporary Chinese education and cross-cultural communication +61 3 9479 1332 b.gao@latrobe.edu.au
Zane Goebel Lecturer Indonesian +61 3 9479 1396 z.goebel@latrobe.edu.au
Cucu Juwita Lecturer Indonesian +61 3 9479 1560 c.juwita@latrobe.edu.au
James Leibold Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies & Politics Role of ethnicity, race and national identity in contemporary Chinese history and society; the construction and politicisation of history in contemporary Asia and Australia-Asia relations +61 3 9479 2089 j.leibold@latrobe.edu.au
Kaori Okano
Associate Professor, Reader Anthropology/sociology of education; comparative education; social inequality and schooling; class-gender-ethnic identity; global-local interface in education; transition to adulthood; ethnic schools;, education in contemporary Asia and Japan. +61 3 9479 1394 k.okano@latrobe.edu.au
Lidia Tanaka Lecturer Sociolinguistics: code-switching, comparative discourse patterns (Spanish, Japanese and English), gender and language, conversation analysis and politeness +61 3 9479 1397 l.tanaka@latrobe.edu.au
Xu Yuzeng Senior Lecturer,
Guest Professor of Nantong University, China		 Chinese as a second language acquisition, language development and interaction, ancient Chinese culture, translation and translation training +61 3 9479 3073 y.xu@latrobe.edu.au

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Honorary/Research Staff

Name
Position
Teaching/Research Interests
Telephone
Email
Harry Aveling Professor,
Adjunct Professor of Southeast Asian Literature, Ohio University		 Indonesian and Malay modern and classical literatures; translation theory and practice +61 3 9479 1213 h.aveling@latrobe.edu.au
John Fitzgerald Honorary Visiting Fellow State-building in post-imperial China; the cultural history of diplomacy in East Asia
Chinese-Australian studies; trans-national China		   j.fitzgerald@latrobe.edu.au

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Melbourne (Bundoora) Administrative Staff

Name
Position
Telephone
Email
Mrs Amanda Dunn Administrative Officer +61 3 9479 1315 amanda.dunn@latrobe.edu.au
Ms Lisa Hunter Administrative Officer +61 3 9479 2690 l.hunter@latrobe.edu.au
Ms Claire Pirrett Postgraduate Administrative Officer +61 3 9479 2682 c.pirrett@latrobe.edu.au

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Albury-Wodonga

Name
Position
 Campus Base
Teaching/Research Interests
Telephone
Email
David Envall Associate Lecturer in Politics Albury-Wodonga Japanese politics and foreign policy, international relations, Asia-Pacific security +61 2 6024 9825 h.envall@latrobe.edu.au
James Leibold Lecturer Melbourne (Bundoora) Role of ethnicity, race and national identity in contemporary Chinese history and society; the construction and politicisation of history in contemporary Asia and Australia-Asia relations +61 3 9479 2089 j.leibold@latrobe.edu.au
Kaori Okano
Associate Professor, Reader and Program Convenor Melbourne (Bundoora) Anthropology of education, Japanese schooling, social inequality and schooling, class-gender-ethnic identity, global-local interface in education, transition to adulthood +61 3 9479 1394 k.okano@latrobe.edu.au

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Bendigo

Name Position Telephone Email
Nita Rahayu Associate Lecturer +61 3 5444 7240 e.rahayu@latrobe.edu.au

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