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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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Edith Stix Wasserman Professor in Asian Studies; Professor of History
B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Yale University
Historian of China/Inner Asia; research on intersection of empire and ethnicity in the 1700s, and on the links between business, state-building, and inequality in the 20th century.
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Associate Professor of Japanese
B.A., Westmont College; M.A., Columbia University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Focused on Japanese language, literature, and culture.
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Professor of Religion
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
An educator and a scholar in the comparative and historical study of religion with a focus on Asia, as the word "Asia" is understood historically and broadly to include West Asia, South Asia and East Asia.
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Professor of Korean
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Yonsei University; Ph.D., Ohio State University
Director of Korean program; focused on Korean language and culture, particularly corpus-based linguistic analysis and learner corpus research
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Associate Professor of Art
B.A., Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages (China); M.A., Southern Methodist University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Asian art historian and specialist in Chinese painting of the Song dynasty (960-1279).
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Senior Lecturer in Japanese
B.A., Baika Women’s College (Japan); M.A., West Virginia University; Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard University
Co-director of Japanese program; interested in Japanese narratives, Japanese pedagogy, second language acquisition, and psycholinguistics.
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Lecturer in Korean
B.A., M.A, Ph.D., Yonsei University
Focused on Korean linguistics, language teaching, learner corpus, and dictionary.
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Professor of Chinese
B.A., Shandong University; M.A., Fudan University; Ph.D., Columbia University
Specializing in modern Chinese literature and intellectual history, science fiction, youth culture, posthuman theories, and the Neo-Baroque aesthetics
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Senior Lecturer in Chinese
B.A., Nanjing Normal University; M.A., Fudan University
Specialized in teaching Chinese as a foreign language; also a translator of literary fiction from English to Chinese.
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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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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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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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Professor of Japanese
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Columbia University
Focused on Japanese literature, how female writers refashion the category of "girlhood" in postwar fiction, manga, and memoir.
