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Awards & Notables, Faculty

Rebecca Copeland receives Independent Press Award 2022

Rebecca Copeland awarded Independent Press Award 2022 (multi-cultural fiction category) for her novel The Kimono Tattoo

3.21.22

Faculty

Kang awarded two book prizes

Hyeok Hweon Kang has received two awards for his doctoral dissertation.

9.29.21

Faculty

Rebecca Copeland: author of new novel, Kimono Tattoo

Rebecca Copeland, professor of Japanese language and literature in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is a nationally known scholar of modern Japanese literature, a translator of contemporary Japanese novels, and, now, a novelist herself.

6.24.21

Awards & Notables, Undergraduate

East Asian Languages and Cultures major introduced

The current majors and minors in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean will be consolidated into a new major and minor in East Asian Languages and Cultures.

5.25.21

Hearing poetry in an ancient language

This National Poetry Month, two faculty members discuss the enduring value of sound when learning poetry in languages that no longer have native speakers.

4.21.21

Faculty

WashU Expert: Propaganda at the Movies

As China prepares for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party, theaters have been instructed to screen at least two propaganda films each week. But ideological mandates may not sit well with moviegoers, argues Zhao Ma.

4.14.21