Associate Professor; Université de Nantes, licence en lettres modernes et philosophie; Stanford, M.A., Ph.D. Goethezeit, History of Ideas, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries, Postwar German Literature,TheGerman Bildungsroman, German Film.

(Ph.D., Princeton) teaches courses on French Classicism, gender issues, marginal figures in literature, Paris in fiction, and French contemporary culture. Her field is seventeenth-century literature and her articles focus on Mme de Lafayette, Mlle de Montpensier and pedagogy. Her current main interests are women writers of the ancien régime, and in particular francophone Swiss women authors, the question of exile, and intercultural theory. Born in Venezuela of Hungarian parents and a so-called “global nomad,” she has also been active in the Cross-Cultural Studies program. She has taught about growing up cross-culturally and intercultural transitions through theory and practice. She is the Director of French and Francophone Studies at Carleton.

Stanford, B.A.; Ochanomizu, M.A.; Harvard, Ph.D.; Japanese language and literature, especially modern fiction, with particular emphasis on Natsume Soseki, Mishima Yukio, Shimao Toshio, and Kono Taeko. Mishima Yukio, The Way of the Samurai (1977). Translator, The Sting of Death and Other Stories by Shimao Toshio (1985); co-author, Women in Japanese Society: An Annotated Bibliography (1992). Special interest in Cross Cultural Theory and Women & Gender Studies.

Michael Hemesath (Ph.D. Harvard) teaches international trade, health economics, and the economics of the former Soviet Union. He has been active in incorporating the case method of teaching into several of his classes. He has published research, some completed jointly with a colleague at St. Olaf, comparing attitudes towards markets in the U.S., Russia and China. He is also interested in economics education in the former Soviet Union. Professor Hemesath has directed three Associated Colleges of the Midwest programs in Krasnodor, Russia and spent Fall of 1999 at Kiev-Mohyla Academcy in Ukraine.

Professor of Religion Wesleyan, B.A.; University of Wisconsin (Madison), M.A., Ph.D.; the religions of South Asia, Indian Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan ritual and meditative practices, Asian religious poetry, mysticism. Co-author, The Wheel of Time: Kalachakra in Context (1985); author, Is Enlightenment Possible? (1993); co-editor, Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre (1996), Buddhist Theology (2000).

Tianjin Normal University, B.A.; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), M.A.; University of Massachusetts (Amherst), M.A., Ph.D.; Chinese language and literature, especially comparative study of Chinese, English, and American fiction. Translator and editor, Selected Works of Joseph Conrad (in Chinese, 1985); translator, The Shadow Line (in Chinese, 1997). Author, Strangers in Strange Lands (in Chinese, 1991); A Study of Dragons, East and West (1992); Hearing Rain from a Passing Boat (in Chinese, 2000).

Naran received his early education in Inner Mongolia, and his M.A. in ethnology and Ph.D. in linguistics from the Central University of Nationalities in Beijing. After two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Cambridge University, between 1992 and 1994, he conducted fieldwork in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Guangxi and Yunnan. Naran is interested in semiotic approaches to ethnicity and politico-cultural boundaries. He teaches courses on language and culture, theory of race and ethnicity, anthropology of Japan, and race and ethnicity in the U.S. and China. He has worked as a consultant with the World Bank and UNDP, and he has participated in many development projects and training programs in China. He is a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar on Race and Ethnicity. Naran first came to Carleton as Freeman Visiting Professor of Anthropology in 2001. He is the Bernstein Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies.

Arjendu is a theorist studying chaos and quantum chaos, particularly issues in decoherence and entropy dynamics. He is deeply interested in the integration of research with education.