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Program Kudos

• Liana Chen published her second monograph, Staging for the Emperors: A History of Qing Court Theatre, 1683-1923, with Cambria Press (2021). She was recently invited to give a talk on her book at the Taipei Kunqu Society.
• Matt Coss’ conference session at the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina was voted among the Top 10 presentations, earning him an invite to present at FLANC’s spring conference. It was titled “Learner-Centered Instruction: What? Why? How?”
• Hongyuan Dong published the second edition of his book, A History of the Chinese Language, and was invited to write a review article for the Linguistic Society of America’s journal Language. He was invited to give lectures at Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University.
• Shoko Hamano submitted “Idiophones in Japanese and Korean” to be included in The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics, Chris Shei and Saihong Li (eds.). Routledge.
• Alexa Alice Joubin received a GW Humanities Center fellowship and published Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021). She was interviewed in The American Journal of Chinese Studies article “Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural Studies: An Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin.”
• Immanuel Kim published two journal articles: “Cultural Translation: Making North Korean Literature Speak English” in the Journal of the Korean American University Professors Association, and “Translating and Translation Practices in 2021: An Interview with The Smoking Tigers,” co-written with Robert Winstanley-Chester and Janet Poole in the European Journal of Korean Studies.
• Miok Pak published an article called, “Third Person is Person too: Evidence from Honorific Constructions,” co-authored with Pritha Chandra and Preeti Kumari in Tae sik Kim and Sunyoung bae (eds.), n the Proceedings of  SICOGG: Comparative Approaches to the syntax-semantics interface.
• Hang Zhang received the Humanities Facilitating Fund-FY22 for her book project titled “Introducing Chinese Linguistics.” She was recently invited to give a talk, “Tone Sandhi and the L2 Acquisition of Tones,” in the Symposium on Linguistic Theory and Language Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Class Notes

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Donor Recognition

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

The East Asian Languages and Literatures Department would like to gratefully acknowledge the following generous donors who made a gift to the department from July 1, 2019 – December 31, 2020.

+ Faculty/Staff | # Parent | ~ Student | * Friend

Deloitte Foundation

Schwab Charitable Fund

 

Katherine Alesio ~ 

Yukiko Asano *

Carol Balding #

Michael Balding #

Nancy Belsinger, BA ’68

Dr. Jonathan Chaves + #

Christina Djossa-Ahoelete, BA ’14

Iana Robert Everhart, BA ’14

Kumiko Gale *

Toshiko Hamaguchi *

Dr. Shoko Hamano +

Andrew Herron, BA ’04

Elina Hum *

Dr. Young-Key Kim-Renaud +

Yoko Lawless *

Yasue Oguro *

Motoko Omori *

Todd Platek, Esq., BA ’74

Dr. Bertrand Renaud *

Trevor Robbins, BA ’12

Yuki Sako *

Kirstin Sandquist, BA ’06

Jacob Santoni *

Kumi Sato *

Mitsuyo Sato +

Kaori Shimizu *

Aoi Takai *

Rivere Thomas *

Nichole Tsuruta *

Kyoko Vaughan *

Yuki Waugh *

Yukiho Yamaguchi *

Dr. Phyllis Zhang +

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