On October 5, Susan Napier visited WashU to talk about her new book, Miyazakiworld, a critical biography of one of Japan’s most significant contemporary filmmakers.

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Nathan Vedal, PhD, joins the East Asian languages and cultures department as an assistant professor. His research interests include early modern Chinese cultural and intellectual history, with a particular focus on the history of knowledge production and the history of the book. His current research extends his dissertation, Scholarly Culture in Late Imperial China, into the history of language study and the circulation of censored books. He earned his doctorate at Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Humanities & Information.

Taewoong Kim, PhD, joins the East Asian Languages and Cultures department as a lecturer in Korean. His research interests include Korean language, second language acquisition, technology-mediated language learning, social justice through education, and learner identity. His most recent publication is "Metacognitive Instruction Using Web 2.0 Technologies in an Adult ESL Speaking Course." Previously, he worked in the School of Korean at Middlebury College. He earned his doctorate majoring in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum from the University of Oklahoma.