Faculty

How to build a Qing Dynasty bed

The acquisition of a 19th-century Chinese bed allows Arts & Sciences students to study cultural history up close, from furniture assembly to 3D modeling.

Laurel Taylor attends British Centre for Literary Translation

9.14.23

EALC graduate student participates in the Japanese Workshop at the British Centre for Literary Translation

EALC welcomes new faculty in FL23

9.1.23

Meet our new faculty

Yuan Gao joins Graduate Student Fellows

9.1.23

Yuan Kevin Gao, one of six Graduate Student Fellows in the humanistic disciplines, will join the Center for the Humanities for a semester in residence during the 2023–24 academic year.

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

8.31.23

EALC PhD student invited to attend Graduate Student Summer Residency

Alumna awarded Fulbright award

6.1.23

Paige Lockwood, who graduated in 2021 with a bachelor’s in Chinese language and culture from Arts & Science, earned an award to teach English in Taiwan.

Second Annual David Sands Holloway Memorial Awards

5.4.23

EALC awards three students the David Sands Holloway Memorial Award for papers that explore issues of gender in Japanese literature and culture.

Stellar literary networks

5.1.23

A serendipitous succession of events led Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellow Laurel Taylor to discover Japan’s cell-phone novel, an early 2000s genre that made authors out of anonymous amateurs and readers out of millions of flip-phone users.

Elsa Chanez receives library essay award

4.28.23

Chanez receives 2023 Neureuther essay award

Elsa Chanez receives awards

4.19.23

Elsa Chanez selected for Graduate Student Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center and receives a Japan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award

Kang wins ACLS Fellowship

4.14.23

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

New grant to explore Asian Americans’ history in St. Louis

4.13.23

A new research project at Washington University in St. Louis will study the history of Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans in St. Louis.

Lei Hu Article Published

4.10.23

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)