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Hegel wins MLA translation award

12.16.25

Robert E. Hegel, the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature in Arts & Sciences, will receive the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work from the Modern Language Association of America (MLA).

From Lab to Label: A Field Trip to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City

10.24.25

Graduate students Qingyi Sun and Cynthia Chen discuss class field trip to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Meet the WashU professor who helped shape ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

8.29.25

Filmmakers of Netflix’s hit "KPop Demon Hunters" partnered with teaching professor Mijeong Mimi Kim to infuse authentic Korean culture into a vibrant fantasy world.

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ directors on how they made the Netflix animated hit

8.7.25

Mijeong Mimi Kim | Forbes

Di Wang on “Mapping Nature in Greco-Roman and Early Chinese Cartography”

6.27.25

EALC Graduate Teaching Awards

5.6.25

EALC graduate students receive teaching awards: Elsa Chanez and Zihan Feng

2025 David Holloway Memorial Essay Prize

4.28.25

EALC announces student winners

Ki Chow receives award for paper

4.25.25

Ki Cora Chow received the 2025 Graduate Student Paper Prize at AAS

Promotion: Heayoung Chun

3.24.25

promotion to senior lecturer

Mano Yasuda receives 2025 Outstanding Faculty Award

3.18.25

Graduate and Professional Student Council award to Dr. Yasuda

Korean faculty receive WashU Digital Transformation grant

2.24.25

DI2 Accelerator Award for Open Educational Resources

‘Meet Me in St. Louis’: The Chinese experience at the 1904 World’s Fair

2.18.25

Dignitaries representing China at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair got the media attention, but historian Zhao Ma wondered about the lives of the workers — interpreters, merchants, cooks and carpenters — who supported China’s mission. Traveling to the U.S. the height of the Chinese Exclusion Act, they faced intense scrutiny and discrimination at every turn.