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Awards & Notables, Faculty

Hegel wins MLA translation award

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).

12.16.25

Graduate

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

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

10.24.25

Graduate

Elsa Chanez participates in National Humanities Center Graduate Student Summer Residency program

EALC PhD student invited to attend Graduate Student Summer Residency

8.31.23

Faculty

Kang wins ACLS Fellowship

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

4.14.23

Awards & Notables, Faculty

Ji-Eun Lee named Creative Practice Workshop Fellow

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.

2.15.23

How America fell in love with China's memes

1.31.25

Jianqing Chen quoted in BBC article

What’s happening on RedNote? A media scholar explains the app TikTok users are fleeing to — and the cultural moment unfolding there

1.30.25

Jianqing Chen | The Conversation

Tracking the tap: A historical and cultural analysis of Chinese touchscreen media

11.19.24

Interview with Faculty Fellow Jianqing Chen

Korean Culture Day Event

10.30.24

South Korea’s Seoul Broadcasting System features the Oct 24 Korean Culture Day event organized by the WashU Korean Students Association, the Korean Cultural Center of LA, and EALC Korean faculty.

A factory worker’s take on AI

10.3.24

Ki Cora Chow is a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, focusing on the technological experiences of factory workers in her dissertation.

Ran Wei awarded Percy Buchanan Graduate Student Prize

8.12.24

Ran Wei, Japanese Ph.D. candidate, receives award

Alumni earn Fulbright awards

7.19.24

Ashlee Chung, graduated in 2020 with a bachelor’s in East Asian studies; Ella Jones, graduated in 2024 with a bachelor’s in East Asian languages and cultures; Jack Manting, graduated in 2024 with a bachelor’s in East Asian languages and cultures

Telling the Story of Asian Americans in St. Louis

6.5.24

A new digital StoryMap project, Asia in St. Louis, traces the history and experiences of people of Chinese and Japanese descent in St. Louis, from the 1850s to the 1980s.