Carleton College: Cross Cultural Studies: Faculty and Staff (Text Only)

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.

Roger Jackson

John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion
Coordinator of South Asian Studies

Off Campus: Fall 2013

Office: Leighton Hall 322

Phone: x4226

Email: rjackson@carleton.edu

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).

Qiguang Zhao

Burton and Lily Levin Professor of Chinese

Off Campus: Fall 2013

Office: Language & Dining Center 217

Phone: x4435

Email: qzhao@carleton.edu

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).

Eva Posfay

Chair of French and Francophone Studies
Director of French and Francophone Studies
Professor of French

Office: Language & Dining Center 353

Phone: x4244

Email: eposfay@carleton.edu

(Princeton University, PhD), teaches on the French Classical tradition, French and Swiss Francophone cultures, and global journeys of self-discovery. Her publications include work on seventeenth-century women writers such as Madame de Lafayette and Mademoiselle de Montpensier, as well as on intercultural theory and practice. Born in Venezuela of Hungarian parents, and a so-called “global nomad,” she has also been active in the cross-cultural studies program. Her current research focuses on bilingualism and multilingualism in literature, Swiss Francophone identity, and intercultural studies. In 2007-2011 she served as Associate Dean of the College.

Scott Carpenter

Professor of French

Off Campus: Spring 2013, Spring 2014

Office: Language & Dining Center 364

Phone: x4235

Email: scarpent@carleton.edu

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.

Sigi Leonhard

Professor of German

Off Campus: Fall 2013

Office: Weitz Center for Creativity 225B

Phone: x4241

Email: sleonhar@carleton.edu

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.

Arjendu Pattanayak

Associate Dean of the College
Professor of Physics

Off Campus: Fall 2013 through Spring 2014

Office: Laird Hall 133 / Laird Hall 301

Phone: x4300

Email: apattana@carleton.edu

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.