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Asian Languages & Literatures

  • Phone: (507) 222-5437

Faculty

Mark Hansell
Mark Hansell
Coordinator of East Asian Studies
Professor of Chinese
Phone: x5425

Office Hours:  Tuesday 11:00-12:00, Wednesday 4:00-5:00, Thursday 1:30-2:30; and by appointment

McGill University B.A.; University of California, Berkeley M.A. Ph.D.; Chinese language and linguistics, especially language contact, lexical borrowing; writing systems; Southeast Asian historical linguistics.

Mariko Kaga enjoying Kyoto's cherry blossums.
Mariko Kaga
Class of 1952 Professor of Asian Languages
Phone: x4006

Office Hours:  Monday 2:00-3:00, Tuesday, Thursday 2:30-3:30; and by appointment

Kobe Kaisei Women's College, B.A.; University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), M.A., Ph.D.; Japanese language and language pedagogy, especially measures of proficiency. Professor Kaga has also co-authored a computer program, Exercises in Japanese Counters and Kana, available for download here. She is developing a digitized computer program for listening and reading practice.

Faye Merritt
Faye Merritt
Visiting Instructor in Chinese
Phone: x5957

Office Hours:  Wednesday 12:30-1:30, Friday 10:00-12:00; and by appointment

Zhejiang University, (Hangzhou, People's Republic of China), B.A.in English Language and Literature; Utah State University, (Logan, Utah), M.A. in Second Language Teaching.

Kathryn Sparling
Kathryn Sparling
Tanaka Memorial Professor of International Understanding and Japanese
Chair of Asian Languages & Literature
Off Campus: Fall 2013 through Spring 2014
Phone: x4019

Office Hours: Tuesday 9:30-11:30, Wednesday 9:45-10:45, Friday 10:00-11:00; and by appointment

Stanford, B.A.; Ochanomizu University, M.A.; Harvard, Ph.D.; Japanese language and literature, especially modern fiction, with particular emphasis on Natsume Soseki, Mishima Yukio, Shimao Toshio, and fiction by contemporary Japanese women. Growing interest in English language fiction by Indian women.

Noboru Tomonari
Noboru Tomonari
Associate Professor of Japanese
Off Campus: Spring 2013
Phone: x5955

Office Hours:  Monday, Wednesday 3:00-4:00, Tuesday, Thursday 3:10-4:10; and by appointment

Sophia University B. A., Tsukuba University M. Ed., Monash University M. A., University of Chicago, PhD; modern and contemporary Japanese literature, cinema, and language, especially autobiographies and works by minorities in Japan.

Hong Zeng
Hong Zeng
Assistant Professor of Chinese
Off Campus: Spring 2013
Phone: x5437

University of Electronic Science and Technology (Peoples Republic of China); Beijing Foreign Studies University, MA, PhD; University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), PhD; modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film; women's literature; comparative literature; comparative study of literature, philosophy, religion and art--the reflection of Taoism and Zen Buddhism in literature and the arts, especially in contemporary Chinese poetry, fiction and film.

Qiguang
Qiguang Zhao
Burton and Lily Levin Professor of Chinese
Off Campus: Fall 2013
Phone: x4435

Office Hours: Monday 3:00-4:30, Wednesday 1:30-3:00; and by appointment

Tianjin (Tientsin) Normal University, (Tianjin, People's Republic of China), B.A.; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, (Beijing, P.R.C.), M.A.; University of Massachusetts (Amherst), M.A., Ph.D.; Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature (especially Eastern and Western mythology, Chinese and British/American literature.)

Staff

Jean Sherwin
Jean Sherwin
Administrative Assistant in Classical Languages
Administrative Assistant in Middle Eastern Languages
Administrative Assistant in Asian Languages and Literatures
Mai Shirotsuki
Mai Shirotsuki
Japanese Language House Resident & Language Associate
Phone: x5273

Office Hours (LDC 201):  Monday 4:00-6:00 pm, Tuesday 4:00-6:00 pm, Wednesday 5:00-6:00 pm; and by appointment

Junjie Mi
Rice Mi
Chinese Language Associate
Phone: x5286

Office Hours (in LDC 201): Tuesday 1:00-3:00 pm, Wednesday 1:00-3:00 pm, Thursday 9:00-10:00 am; or by appointment

Ikuo Shimomura
Visiting Scholar in Asian Languages and Literatures
Office: Willis Hall
Phone: x4117