Laurel Taylor attends British Centre for Literary Translation
EALC graduate student participates in the Japanese Workshop at the British Centre for Literary Translation
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.
Awards support students furthering their understanding of an East Asian subject
The Center for the Literary Arts, a signature initiative of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan, has named its first cohort of Creative Practice Workshop Fellows.
Zhao Ma | The Source article on China's COVID policy