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Cross Cultural Studies

  • Phone: (507) 222-7488
  • Fax: (507) 222-7551

Faculty

Sigi Leonhard
Sigi Leonhard
Professor of German
Director of Cross Cultural Studies
Office: Hoppin House 206
Phone: x4241

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.

Staff

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Eva S. Posfay
Associate Dean of the College
Professor of French
Office: Laird Hall 148
Phone: x4311

(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.

Gao Hong Dice
Performance Activities Coordinator in Music
Visiting Instructor in Cross Cultural Studies
Lecturer in Chinese Musical Instruments
Office: Music Hall 104
Phone: x4475

Other Faculty Involved In The Department/Program

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Kathryn W. Sparling
Tanaka Memorial Professor of International Understanding and Japanese
Off Campus: Fall 2009 through Spring 2010
Office: Language and Dining Center 212
Phone: x4019

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.

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Michael T. Hemesath
Professor of Economics
Chair of Economics
Office: Willis Hall 315
Phone: x4105

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.

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Roger R. Jackson
John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion
Off Campus: Fall 2009 through Spring 2010
Office: Leighton Hall 322
Phone: x4226

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).

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Qiguang Zhao
Burton and Lily Levin Professor of Chinese
Chair of Asian Languages & Literature
Office: Language and Dining Center 217
Phone: x4435

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).

Scott Carpenter
Scott D. Carpenter
Professor of French
Off Campus: Spring 2010
Office: Language and Dining Center 364
Phone: x4235
Scott Carpenter (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) teaches courses on the representation of “otherness,” nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry, the aesthetics of falseness, and literary theory. He has published extensively (sometimes with students) on such authors as Charles Baudelaire, George Sand, Honoré de Balzac, and Prosper Mérimée. In addition to Acts of Fiction (on political representations in nineteenth-century literature) and Reading Lessons (an introduction to literary theory), he has co-edited an intermediate French reader, and he participates in an electronic dictionary project. His current research focuses on frauds, hoaxes and counterfeits in the nineteenth century.
Arjendu Pattanayak, professor of physics
Arjendu K. Pattanayak
Associate Professor of Physics
Office: Olin Hall 337
Phone: x7166

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.