EALC awards three students the David Sands Holloway Memorial Award for papers that explore issues of gender in Japanese literature and culture.

A serendipitous succession of events led Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellow Laurel Taylor to discover Japan’s cell-phone novel, an early 2000s genre that made authors out of anonymous amateurs and readers out of millions of flip-phone users.

Chanez receives 2023 Neureuther essay award

Elsa Chanez selected for Graduate Student Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center and receives a Japan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award

Kang won an ACLS Fellowship for his project “Artisanal Heart: The Vernacular Engineers of Early Modern Korea.”

A new research project at Washington University in St. Louis will study the history of Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans in St. Louis.

Lei's article "Immersed in the Fleeting World of Modernity: Edo Music and the Aestheticism of Melancholy in Nagai Kafū’s Literary World" published in Japanese Language and Literature Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (April 2023)

어와우리 벗님네야, 이내말삼 드러보소 (“Hello my friends, please listen to what I am about to tell you”). For more than 500 years, Korean women have invited listeners to relive moments of their lives — excursions, celebrations, concerns and more — chronicled in the form of ‘kasa,’ a verse narrative. Scholar Ji-Eun Lee (East Asian Languages & Cultures) dives into their stories as part of a project on the evolution of the modern Korean woman of the 20th century.

Nie was selected for a teaching innovation grant. Early adopters will pilot pedagogical strategies that integrate a literacy-based approach into a selection of their 2023-2024 undergraduate courses

Wei Wang promoted to Teaching Professor

Hatch taught Chinese history at WashU for more than three decades

Ran Wei's article, "Solidarity on the Margins: Narrating the Zainichi in Yi Yang-ji’s 'Woman Diver' (Kazukime, 1983) and Nakagami Kenji’s 'Flower Boy' (Fuaramu, 1980)" was published in the special issue "Revisiting Zainichi" of the online journal Transnational Asia.