Faculty
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Sarah M. Allen
Assistant Professor of Chinese
A.B., Harvard College; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Harvard University
Works on medieval Chinese literature and culture, with a focus on tales written in classical Chinese.
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Dai Chen
Senior Lecturer in Chinese
B.A., Shanghai Teachers’ University; M.A., University of Iowa
Interested in Chinese language pedagogy and second language acquisition.
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Miyuki Hatano-Cohen
Lecturer in Japanese
B.A., Tohoku Gakuin University
Always looking for fun ways to get students actively involved in Japanese learning.
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Yuan-Chu Ruby Lam
Professor of Chinese
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Interested in China's contemporary issues, especially those concerning the Mongols and the Tibetans.
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Sun-Hee Lee
Associate Professor of Korean
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Yonsei University; Ph.D., Ohio State University
Focused on Korean language and culture, particularly corpus-based analysis of Korean and learner error corpus
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Yoshimi Maeno
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
B.A., Baika Women’s College (Japan); M.A., West Virginia University; Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard University
Japanese Program co-director, interested in Japanese narratives, Japanese pedagogy, second language acquisition, and psycholinguistics.
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Amy Bliss Marshall
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Languages & Cultures and History
B.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison); M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Expert in modern Japanese cultural history, specifically media, leisure, gender, and rural life in the early 20th century.
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Mingwei Song
Assistant Professor of Chinese
B.A., Shandong University; M.A., Fudan University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Specializing in modern Chinese literature, film studies and youth culture.
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Qiuyan Tang
Lecturer in Chinese
B.A., Nanjing Normal University; M.A., Fudan University
Engaged in teaching Chinese language; interested in theory and methods of teaching Chinese as a foreign language; Taoist philosophy.
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Shiao-Wei Tham
Assistant Professor of Chinese
B.A., National University of Singapore; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Research: linguistics, with focus on word meaning, Chinese.
Teaching: linguistics, Chinese language.
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Eiko Torii-Williams
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
B.A., Kansai University (Osaka); Ed.M., Ph.D., Boston University
Co-director of Japanese Program; study abroad advisor in Japan; applied linguist.
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Ellen B. Widmer
Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of East Asian Studies
B.A. Wellesley College; M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
I study traditional Chinese fiction, history of Chinese women's writing, history of the book in China, and missionaries to East Asia.
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Kristin H. Williams
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Languages and Cultures
B.A., Mary Baldwin College; M.A., University of Pennsylvania, M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Research in Japanese literature, children’s culture, and book history of the 17th to 19th century.
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Weina Zhao
Senior Lecturer in Chinese
B.A., Nanjing University; M.A., Clark University
Interests include language teaching methodology, cross-cultural communication, Chinese pedagogical grammar, and language and culture.
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Eve Zimmerman
Associate Professor of Japanese
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Columbia University
Modern Japanese literature; how writers (and manga artists) use "girlhood" to express views on gender, sexuality, and history.
