EALC people directory
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Japanese cinema and visual cultures, Modern and contemporary literature, Media history of Japan’s era of high economic growth, Histories and theories of labor and management in Japan, East Asian transnational media networks
Frequently Taught Courses
Studies in Japanese Film: Visualizing Catastrophe in Japanese Film and Media; Approaches to Japanese Animation: Genre, Technology, and Fan Cultures
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
Popular culture, gender, literacy, and Japanese language teaching
Frequently Taught Courses
First Year Japanese; Second Year Japanese; Third Year Japanese; Humanities Topics in Japanese: Manga and Anime
Department Manager/Fiscal Officer
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Korean literature; environmental humanities; feminist theory; transnational proletarian literature; ecosocialism; indigeneity; environmental history; new materialisms; labor history; sound studies
Frequently Taught Courses
Fall 2023: EALC E300/E505 Labor and Literature in Modern Korea EALC E311/E505 Korean Popular Culture Spring 2023: EALC E[ ] Leftist Literature in East Asia EALC E311/E505 Korean Popular Culture
Teaching Professor
Research Interests
Chinese pedagogy, language socialization, multilingual & multiliteracy
Frequently Taught Courses
EALC-C101 & C102, Elementary Chinese EALC-C201 & C202, Intermediate Chinese EALC-C320, Business Chinese EALC-C467, Chinese in Social Sciences
Associate Professor, Religious Studies, EALC
Research Interests
Japanese religion; Buddhism; lay religiosity; visual culture and religion
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics in contemporary Xinjiang; history of modern Xinjiang; historiography in China; nationalism and ethnic conflict; Central Eurasian studies
Professor of Practice, CEUS
Research Interests
Chinese history and society; social history of Mongol China; Islam in Southwest China
Frequently Taught Courses
East Asia: An Introduction
Undergraduate Advisor
Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean History
Research Interests
Korean history and society; development and social change in East Asia; urban history; the Korean War; politics of memory
Frequently Taught Courses
Modern Korean History; Korean Civilization
Visiting Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Modern Korean History; History of Thought; Cold War International History; Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies; Nationalism and National Identity; North-South Korea Relations; U.S.-Korea Relations
Professor
Director, Chinese Flagship Program
Research Interests
Foreign language pedagogy; foreign language learning strategies; second language acquisition; heritage language learners; technology assisted learning/teaching; Chinese language film
Frequently Taught Courses
Chinese in Humanities: Chinese Culture through Literature and Film
Associate Professor, The Media School, EALC
Research Interests
screen technologies & cultures, video & media arts, media geographies & infrastructures, media production/co-production, global media studies, Inter-Asian screen media, Japanese and Chinese screen media, digital humanities & creative practice
John Finch
Academic Specialist
Associate Director of Institute for Korean Studies
Research Interests
Family, migration and education; gender, culture and cinema; globalization and inequality; household and community ethnography
Frequently Taught Courses
Studies in South Korean Cinema; Dating, Sex and Marriage in South Korea; South Korean Education; Introduction to Korean Society
Professor, Anthropology, Gender Studies, EALC
Research Interests
State and citizenship; migration; gender and sexuality; marriage and family; contemporary Chinese societies
Professor, Business
Research Interests
Information economics; strategic communication; industrial organization
Visiting Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Japanese language pedagogy; Second language acquisition; Second language processing; Japanese Linguistics
Lecturer
Research Interests
Korean linguistics; Korean language pedagogy; Cognitive linguistics; Sociocultural theory; Multimodal discourse analysis
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Japanese society; inequality; work and organizations; gender; race and ethnicity; immigration
Frequently Taught Courses
E204 Work and Economy in East Asia, E204 Migration in East Asia, E350 Japanese Politics and Society, E350 Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Japan
Associate Professor, Religious Studies, EALC
Research Interests
Chinese religion; early Confucianism; the human condition; ritual theory; traditional Hawai'i
Frequently Taught Courses
Religions of Asia; The Poetics of Tao Yuanming; Reading Early Chinese Texts
Lecturer
Research Interests
Korean language and linguistics; academic literacy development; language assessment; language pedagogy; L2 writing; bilingual/multilingual literacy
Frequently Taught Courses
Elementary Korean 1 (EALC-K101); Elementary Korean 2 (EALC-K102); Second-Year Korean 1 (EALC-K201); Second-Year Korean 2 (EALC-K202)
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
Korean language and linguistics; Korean language pedagogy; second language acquisition; visual culture
Frequently Taught Courses
Elementary Korean; Second Year Korean; Third Year Korean
Korea Foundation Professor
Director, Korean Studies Institute
Research Interests
Gender and society in contemporary Korea
Frequently Taught Courses
Gender and Class in South Korea; Dating, Sex, and Marriage in South Korea; South Korean Education: Examination Hell or Model for the World?
Associate Professor
Korean Language Program Coordinator
Research Interests
Korean language and linguistics; comparative study of East Asian languages; discourse-pragmatic and cognitive approaches to grammar
Frequently Taught Courses
Second Year Korean; Third Year Korean; Korean Language and Culture; Introduction to Korean Linguistics
Lecturer
Research Interests
Korean language and linguistics; Korean language pedagogy; Grammaticalization
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics and economy of China; China's state-owned enterprises; leadership in China's public sector, China’s early reform and opening; international investment and trade
Frequently Taught Courses
China and the World Economy; International Political Economy of China; China, Inc.: From Communism to Capitalism?
Professor of East Asian International Relations
Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative
Research Interests
Japanese politics and foreign (esp. security) policy; East Asian security affairs; U.S.-Japan-China relations; U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy; Taiwan
Frequently Taught Courses
Japanese Foreign Policy; U.S.-Japan Relations; Security Flashpoints in East Asia Today; U.S. Asia-Pacific Strategy; International Relations of East Asia; The Rise of China
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
Chinese language; second language phonology; vocabulary memorization; L2 Chinese speaking skills development; technology in language teaching
Frequently Taught Courses
First Year Chinese; Third Year Chinese
James and Noriko Gines Department Chair
Professor
Research Interests
Chinese linguistics and psycholinguistics; sentence and discourse processing; East Asian psycholinguistics; experimental linguistics; corpus linguistics; linguistic anthropology
Frequently Taught Courses
Introduction to Chinese Linguistics; Psychology of Chinese; Sentence Processing; Chinese Language and Culture; East Asian Psycholinguistics
Librarian, East Asian Collection
Assistant Professor, Chinese Language Program Coordinator
Research Interests
Chinese as a second language acquisition; Chinese as a second language grammar development; Chinese language pedagogy; Second language acquisition theories and research methods; Second language assessment and testing; Technology-assisted language learning and teaching
Paul McNutt Associate Professor, EALC
Research Interests
Pre-modern Chinese narratives; Chinese literati culture; traditional Chinese literature; gender and cultural studies
Frequently Taught Courses
Introduction to Literary Chinese I; Ghosts, Immortals, Animal Spirits: Encountering the Supernatural in Traditional Chinese Culture; Readings in Chinese Literature; Traditional Chinese Women Writers
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
Chinese language pedagogy; Chinese linguistics; prosodic phonology; Chinese dialectology
Frequently Taught Courses
First Year Chinese; Third Year Chinese; Fourth Year Chinese; Classical Chinese
Noriko Manabe
Professor, music theory
Adjunct affiliate faculty, ethnomusicology
Research Interests
Music in Japan; social movements; popular music; hip hop; songwriting; intertextuality; linguistics and music; Fukushima nuclear disaster; atomic-bomb trauma in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; children’s songs
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
Japanese pedagogy; Japanese language
Frequently Taught Courses
First Year Japanese; Second Year Japanese; Japanese Language Practice: Humanities
Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean Politics and Society
Research Interests
Contemporary Korean society; International migration; Refugees and asylum-seekers; Law and society; Political sociology; Transnational and global sociology
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Undergraduate Advisor
Professor, Sociology, EALC
Research Interests
Contemporary Chinese society; social conflict; justice systems; lawyers; globalization; institutions and institutional change
Frequently Taught Courses
Contemporary Chinese Society and Change; Law and Authoritarianism: Through the Lens of China
Associate Professor
Research Interests
History of twentieth-century Japan; environmental and urban history; consumption and consumer culture; visual culture
Frequently Taught Courses
Visual Culture of Modern Japan; Hiroshima: History, City, Event; Modern Japanese History
Associate Professor in Japanese Studies
Director, East Asian Studies Center
Research Interests
Japanese history; violence and conflict; social history, medieval estate system, peasant history
Frequently Taught Courses
Introduction to East Asian Studies; Samurai: Culture and Violence; Introduction to Premodern Japan; East Asia Between Mongols and Samurai
Associate Professor, History, EALC
Research Interests
History of late imperial China; East Asian history; environmental history; early modern empires; race and ethnicity; commodity and consumption
Frequently Taught Courses
China: The Later Empires; East Asia in World History (Gen Ed); Frontier China: The Borderlands and Foreign Policy of China (Gen Ed); Environmental Problems in Chinese History
Visiting Lecturer
Professor, Religious Studies, EALC
Research Interests
Chinese religious thought; comparative religious ethics; philosophy of religions; Christian thought and ethics; moral philosophy
Frequently Taught Courses
Introduction to Classical Chinese Thought; Conceptions of the Self, East and West
Associate Professor, Anthropology, EALC
Research Interests
Contemporary Japan; African diaspora; race; social identity; Afro-Asia; performance studies; transnationalism; human rights
Associate Professor, Japanese Language Program Coordinator
Research Interests
Japanese sociolinguistics; Applied linguistics; Second language acquisition; Language ideologies; Japanese dialects and speech styles; Japanese honorifics and linguistic politeness; Japanese as a foreign language; Foreign language pedagogy
Frequently Taught Courses
EALC-J 301: Third-year Japanese I; EALC-J 302: Third-year Japanese II; EALC-E 270: Japanese Language and Society; EALC-J 313: Business Japanese
Visiting Lecturer
Research Interests
Chinese Language Pedagogy, Chinese syntax, and Chinese linguistics
Lecturer
Research Interests
Japanese language teaching
Frequently Taught Courses
Elementary Japanese; Japanese for Advanced Beginners; Humanities Topics in Japanese; Japanese Speaking Practice Social Science
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of Early Chinese History
Research Interests
Early Chinese history; kingship, religion, and ritual; bronzes and bronze inscriptions; excavated manuscripts; historiography as literature
Frequently Taught Courses
Early China; China: The Age of Glory; Facing and Fleeing Death in Early China; Worship and Rule in East Asia; China's Past in Speculative Fiction
Associate Professor, History, EALC
Research Interests
Modern China; history of piracy and intellectual property rights; history of books, law, and economic life; history of cooking and cookbooks in East Asia; Chinese popular culture
Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Assistant Professor, Political Science, EALC
Research Interests
Chinese public opinion; political participation in China; ideology' authoritarianism
Frequently Taught Courses
Chinese Politics
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests
Modern Chinese literature and intellectual history; transnational networks of knowledge; intersections of human sciences, literature, and history
Frequently Taught Courses
Studies in Chinese Cinema; Chinese Literature since 1300; Twentieth Century Chinese Literature
Academic Specialist
Research Interests
Chinese language pedagogy; Chinese linguistics; Chinese operas and dramas