Dai Chen
Courses: Beginning Chinese (101-102), Intermediate Chinese (201-202), Advanced Intermediate Chinese (203-204)
Research Interests: Dai Chen, a native of Shanghai, earned her BA in Chinese Literature and Language at the Shanghai Teachers' University and her MA in Chinese Language Pedagogy at the University of Iowa. Before coming to Wellesley, Ms. Chen taught classical and modern Chinese literature at Jingan Normal School in Shanghai, and beginning and intermediate Chinese at the University of Iowa. She is interested in Chinese language pedagogy and second language acquisition and has been closely involved with the preparation of teaching materials used in Wellesley first and second-year Chinese courses.
Office: Green Hall 230
Email: dchen@wellesley.edu

Furukawa Chie
Courses: Beginning Japanese (JPN 101-102)
Research Interests:
Office: Pendelton West 314
Email: cfurukaw@wellesley.edu

Yuan-Chu Ruby Lam
Courses: Intermediate Chinese (CHIN 201-202), Advanced Chinese II (CHIN 302), Twentieth Century Literature (CHIN 316)
Research Interests: Yuan-Chu Ruby Lam earned her BA and MA in modern Chinese history from National Taiwan University and her PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Professor Lam teaches a variety of intermediate and advanced courses on Chinese language and culture. Her research speciality is Yuan dynasty history and the minority cultures of China. She is the author of studies in both Chinese and English on Yuan historiography, the civil service examination, and premodern Mongolian historical writings.
Office: Green Hall 230
Email: ylam@wellesley.edu

Sun-Hee Lee
Courses: Beginning Korean (KOR 101-102), Intermediate Korean (KOR 201-202), Language and Gender in Modern Korean Culture(KOR 256)
Research Interests: Sun-Hee Lee earned her BA, MA, and Ph.D. in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University in Seoul Korea. She also holds Ph.D. from the Department of Linguistics at Ohio State University. Her areas of expertise include Korean syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, and computational linguistics. Before she came to Wellesley, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at OSU. She is now building up the new Korean Program at Wellesley. Her research has been focusing on lexical analysis of various morpho-syntactic constructions in Korean and computational (and psycholinguistic) processes that are related to anaphor resolution and corpus annotations. Her new research project is to develop an intelligent computer-aided language learning system (ICALL) for Korean by utilizing natural language processing tools and linguistic insights.
Office: Green Hall 236B
Email: slee6@wellesley.edu

Yoshimi Maeno
Courses: Beginning Japanese (JPN 101-102), Intermediate Japanese (JPN 201-202), Selected Readings in Advanced Japanese I/II (JPN 231-232), Readings in Contemporary Japanese Social Science (JPN 309), Research/Individual Study (JPN 350)
Research Interests: Yoshimi Maeno received a doctorate in Second Language Acquisition from
Harvard University in 2000. She earned Master's degrees from Harvard University, and West Virginia University. Before coming to Wellesley, she taught Japanese at West Virginia University, Cornell University and Harvard University. She recently published a book entitled, The Acquisition of the Japanese Oral Narrative Style by Native English-Speaking Bilinguals (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004). Other publications include articles on Japanese Pedagogy, Japanese Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, and Japanese Narrative Style. Her research interests are second language acquisition, Japanese pedagogy, applied linguistics, and psycholinguistics. She is also the chief organizer and facilitator of the Boston Area Japanese Speech Event.
Office: Pendelton West 316
Email: ymaeno@wellesley.edu

Carolyn Morley
Courses: Beginning Japanese (JPN 101-102), Japanese Animation (JPN 111), Japanese Writers and Their Worlds (JPN 251), Directed Readings in Modern Japanese Prose (JPN 310), Readings in Classical Japanese Prose (JPN 312), Theaters of Japan (JPN 351), Lady Murasaki and The Tale of Genji (JPN 352)
Research Interests: Carolyn Morley earned her Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University in 1987. As a specialist in Japanese theater, she teaches courses in Japanese literature, theater, and animation, as well as Japanese language. Morley helped to establish the Japanese Department and she has advised students in the Japanese Studies program since 1986. Morley is the author of Transformation, Miracles, and Mischief: The Mountain Priest Plays of Kyogen (Cornell University East Asia Papers, 1993). She has contributed translations of plays and articles on noh and kyogen to several anthologies: Traditional Japanese Theater (Columbia University Press, 1997); Currents in Japanese Culture (Columbia University Press, 1997); Great Literature of the Eastern World (Harper-Collins, 1996); Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture (Routledge, 2001); and The Noh Ominameshi: A Flower Viewed from Many Directions, among others. She travels frequently to Japan for research and has brought noh, kyogen, and bunraku theatre troupes to Wellesley to perform and to offer workshops for students. She is a research associate at the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University.
Office: Pendelton West 319
Email: cmorley@wellesley.edu

Kazuko Ozawa
Courses: Intermediate Japanese (JPN 201-202), Beginning Japanese (JPN
101-102), Selected Readings in Advanced JapaneseI/II(JPN231-232),
Research/Individual Study (JPN350)
Research Interests: Kazuko Ozawa received her BA from Sacred Heart University in Tokyo. Before she started teaching Japanese at Harvard University in 1985, she worked for Japan Air Lines and Shiki Theatrical Company in Tokyo. While she was at Harvard, she also taught Japanese at Middlebury College, Harvard Summer School, and Harvard Extension School. Kazuko Ozawa works on developing Japanese language skills using raw materials (TV programs, advertisements, newspapers, magazines, Japanese folk tales, etc.). She created "Reading Materials from Beginning to Advanced Japanese" and "Kanji Working Sheets." She also revised "Reading Guide" Vol.1 to Vol. 4. Kazuko Ozawa is a board member of the Japanese Language Teachers Association of New England and she organized the 18 th Annual Conference of JLTA-NE at Wellesley College in 2004. She also coordinates wintersession programs on calligraphy and flower arranging, in addition to playing an active role in promoting Japanese cultural activities on campus.
Office: Pendelton West 318
Email: kozawa@wellesley.edu

Mingwei Song
Courses: FALL: Writing Women in Modern China (CHIN232/323), Adv Reading 20th C Culture (CHIN306). SPRING: The Chinese Literary Imagination III (CHIN 208), Popular Culture Modern China (CHIN 339).
Research Interests: Research Interest: Mingwei Song’s research interests include modern Chinese literature from the late Qing to the early 21st Century, Chinese cinema studies, the youth culture of modern China, and the theory of the novel. He received his Ph.D. in modern Chinese literature and culture from Columbia University in 2005. He taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and did research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research of Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow before joining Wellesley College. He published four books in Chinese, including Sorrows of a Floating World: a Biography of Eileen Chang (Fushi de be’ai: Zhang Ailing zhuan, Taipei, 1996; Shanghai, 1998). He is currently working on a book manuscript on the fictional representation of youth in modern China.
Office: Green Hall 230B
Email: msong2@wellesley.edu

Eiko Torii
Courses: Beginning Japanese (JPN 101 - 102), Intermediate Japanese (JPN 201-202), Selected Readings in Advanced Japanese I (JPN 231), Selected Readings in Advanced Japanese II (JPN 232), Research/Individual Study (JPN 350)
Research Interests: Eiko Torii-Williams received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and her Master's Degree in Bilingual Education from Boston University. A member of the Wellesley faculty since 1989, she is co-advisor for the study abroad programs in Japan. Before joining Wellesley, Torii-Williams taught Japanese at Northeast Missouri State University. She also taught intensive Japanese courses at Harvard Summer School and MIT. Eiko Torii's research interests include Japanese Language Education, Japanese Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, and Sociolinguistics. She has published articles on Japanese Adverbs, CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning), Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, and Bilingualism. Her most recent article is entitled, "Incorporating the use of e-mail into a Japanese language program," Current Report on Japanese Language Education around the Globe, Vol. 7 (The Japan Foundation, 2004).
Office: Pendelton West 317
Email: etorii@wellesley.edu

Ellen Widmer
Courses: Classical Chinese Theater (CHIN 244), Korean American Literature and Culture (AMST 212)
Research Interests: Ellen Widmer is the chair of the EALL Program and a gradute of Wellesley of the Class of '61. She received an MA from Tufts University and an MA and PhD from Harvard University. Professor Widmer has taught at Wesleyan College in the Asian Languages and Literature Department. Her research interests include gender in Chinese literature, comparative East Asian literatures, missionaries in China, and Korean literature. Her major publications include The Margins of Utopia Shui-hu hou-chuan and the Literature of Ming Loyalism (Harvard 1987), From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth Century China (Harvard, 1993), and Writing Women in Late Imperial China (Stanford, 1997).
Office: Green Hall
Email: ewidmer@wellesley.edu

Weina Zhao
Courses: Beginning Chinese (CHIN 101-102), Intermediate Chinese (CHIN 201-202), Advanced Intermediate Chinese (CHIN 203-204)
Research Interests: Weina Zhao received her MA in Foreign Language Education from Clark University and her BA in English Language and Literature from Nanjing University. She has taught at numerous schools, including Nanjing University, Clark University, the College of the Holy Cross, and Cornell University. She coordinated the Chinese Program at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and served as a lead instructor in Middlebury's summer language program. Ms. Zhao has presented various papers on pedagogical issues related to the teaching of Chinese as a second language and has co-authored teaching materials used in Wellesley Chinese classes.
Office: Green Hall 230
Email: wzhao@wellesley.edu

Nayoung Kwon
Courses: Beginning Korean (KOR 101-102)
Research Interests:
Office: Founders 220
Email: nkwonwellesley.edu

Jae-Young Song
Courses: Beginning Korean (KOR101-102)
Research Interests:
Email: jsong@wellesley.edu

Eve Zimmerman
Courses: Gender and Popular Culture of Japan (JPN 111), Japanese Cinema (JPN 256), Japanese Narrative (JPN 314), Postwar Japanese Fiction (JPN 352), First-year Japanese (JPN 101), East Asian Cinema (EAS 300)
Research Interests: Eve Zimmerman works on modern Japanese literature and popular culture with an emphasis on the period after World War II. Recent courses include a survey on girlhood (shojo) in Japanese visual and literary culture, and a new collaborative East Asia cinema course that covers Japan, China, and Korea. Zimmerman's book Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction, a study of the postwar burakumin writer, will appear in Harvard's East Asia Series. Other publications include a translation of Nakagami's early fiction, The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto (Stone Bridge 1999). Zimmerman's latest project, From the Outside In: Visions of Girlhood in Modern Japanese Literature, explores the dialogue between high literature, popular cultural forms and translation in shaping discourses around girlhood in modern Japan. Zimmerman received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1997. In 1992 she won the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese literature for Ishikawa Yoshimi's Strawberry Road.
Office: Pendelton West 313
Email: ezimmerm