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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

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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

Di Wang on “Mapping Nature in Greco-Roman and Early Chinese Cartography”

6.27.25

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

Former EALC Graduate Students succeeding in careers in Japan!

2.28.24

Updates on alumni Dr. Christopher T. Keaveney and Dr. Lee Friederich

EALC alumnus earns fellowships for graduate study in China

12.1.23

EALC alumnus Brock Mullen (BSBA ‘23) earned two fellowships to study at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China before beginning his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

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.

Alumni selected by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program

9.3.21

Eight alumni of Washington University in St. Louis were selected by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to conduct research or teach English this academic year.