Asian Languages & Literatures

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.

Office Hours: Monday 11:00-12:00, Wednesday, Friday 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.

Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 9:50-11:00, Friday 2:20-3:20; 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.

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

Sophia University B. A., Tsukuba University M. Ed., Monash University M. A., University of Chicago, PhD; Japanese literature and history.

Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 10:00-11:00, Thursday 3:00-4:00; and by appointment

University of Electronic Science and Engineering (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.

Office Hours: Monday 9:30-10:30 am, Wednesday 12:30-1:30 pm, Friday 1:10-2:10; 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.)

Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 11:00-12:00; and by appointment

Wuhan University of Technology (Peoples Republic of China), B.A.; Nanjing University (PRC), M.A.; University of Melbourne (Australia), ABD; computer assisted language learning, Chinese linguistics

Office Hours: LDC 205--Tuesday 4:00-6:00, Wednesday 5:00-6:00, Thursday 4:00-6:00, Friday 3:30-4:30; and by appointment

Office Hours: LDC 205--Monday 5:00-6:00, Tuesday, Thursday 7:00-9:00 pm, Sunday 7:00-8:00 pm; and by appointment

Office Hours: LDC 204-- Monday 4:00-6:00 pm, Tuesday 4:00-6:00 pm, Wednesday 5:00-6:00, Thursday 5:00-6:00 pm; by appointment