Two EALC faculty receive 2026 Outstanding Faculty Award
Jamie Newhard and Ji-Eun selected to receive 2026 Outstanding Faculty Awards
Two EALC graduate students winners of 2026 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
Qingyi Emmy Sun and Yue Wang win teaching award
From Lab to Label: A Field Trip to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City
Graduate students Qingyi Sun and Cynthia Chen discuss class field trip to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Meet the WashU professor who helped shape ‘KPop Demon Hunters’
Filmmakers of Netflix’s hit “KPop Demon Hunters” partnered with teaching professor Mijeong Mimi Kim to infuse authentic Korean culture into a vibrant fantasy world.
Vedal wins ACLS fellowship
Nathan Vedal, assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures in Arts & Sciences, has received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Vedal also recently received a Mellon Fellowship from Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Letty Chen publishes new book, "The Great Leap Backward"
Lingchei Letty Chen’s new book, “The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years,” has been published by Cambria Press.
SP20 EALC Major/Minor Updates
EALC has made changes in class instruction and degree requirements for SP20
Krystel Mowery receives Outstanding Staff Award
EALC administrative coordinator and WashU alumna Krystel Mowery receives award
Language Teaching Fair Spring Coffee Hour: Extending Class Time with Canvas
Language instructors at WashU gathered on Wednesday for an informal roundtable discussion on teaching and using Canvas in the classroom. Iva Youkilis, Senior Lecturer and Placement Coordinator in Italian; Erik Nesse, PhD, Lecturer in French; and Taewoong Kim, PhD, Lecturer in Korean, led the discussion.
China hits back at American ‘coronavirus overreaction’ with travel warning for US
Professor Zhao Ma comments on recent China travel warning
Summer 2019 Spector-Yang Awards
The second cohort of Stanley Spector and Richard Yang Award recipients share their experiences in East Asia during the summer of 2019.
Ai Weiwei: Displacement and Replacement
We asked Yuqian Yan, a postdoctoral fellow in Chinese performance cultures in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, to respond to the Kemper Art Museum’s exhibition, Ai Weiwei: Bare Life, and to attend the museum’s sold-out Q&A with Ai Weiwei on September 26. (The exhibit continues through January 5.) Here, she brings her expertise in spectatorship and Chinese performance culture to bear on the controversial Chinese artist and filmmaker’s works, which draw attention to the struggles of millions of people in China and around the world.
Translation as meditation
Ji-Eun Lee talks about the art of translation and her newest translation project, "I Met Loh Kiwan."
The global anthropocene: what does the fox say?
On October 25, Michael Bathgate (Saint Xavier University) will deliver the third annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions on the subject of “Foxes, Gods, and Monsters in the Edo Anthropocene.”
Haiyan Lee to visit campus on 10/18
A Q&A with Haiyan Lee (Stanford University) in advance of her talk on "A Sino-Jewish Encounter, A Humanitarian Fantasy."
Letter from the chair
Marvin Marcus, professor of Japanese literature and comparative literature, took over as chair of EALC this fall.