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.
Ji-Eun Lee named Creative Practice Workshop Fellow
The Center for the Literary Arts, a signature initiative of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan, has named its first cohort of Creative Practice Workshop Fellows.
Podcast: Why China and North Korea are not as close as you think
Professor Zhao Ma answers questions about the relationship between China and North Korea, and brings context to current tensions in Northeast Asia.
Fanghao Chen selected as a recipient of Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 2017-18
Fanghao Chen, PhD candidate in Chinese and Comparative Literature, has been selected as a recipient of the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 2017-18.
Alumna Dr. Alisa Gaunder publishes new book
Cover of Japanese Politics and Government Has Special Meaning to its Author, Southwestern University Dean of the Faculty Dr. Alisa Gaunder.
Dr. Kanako Yao receives her PhD in Linguistics
Congratulations to Dr. Kanako Yao--who recently completed her PhD degree in Linguistics from The Ohio State University.
Treasuring Lives, Eating Animals
On Oct. 19, the inaugural Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture Series in Asian Religions will address the evolving attitudes around meat-eating in Buddhist culture, in a talk titled “Gratitude and Treasuring Lives: Eating Animals in Contemporary Buddhism.”
Zen Echoes: Classic Koans with Verse Commentaries by Three Female Zen Masters
Professor Beata Grant's new book Zen Echoes Classic Koans with Verse Commentaries by Three Female Zen Masters has been published by Wisdom Publications.
EALC Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students, and Alumnae Participated in the Asian Studies Conference Japan
EALC faculty, staff, graduate students and alumnae participated in the Asian Studies Conference Japan, held at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, July 8-9, 2017.
Rebecca Copeland presents summer lecture at KCJS
Professor Rebecca Copeland shared with students at the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies the challenges faced by translators as well as insider stories of translation.
Recent Chinese minor named Yenching Scholar
Two graduates of the Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2017 — Carl Stanley Hooks and Kenneth Sng — have been named Yenching Scholars at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.
Technology of Memory: How We Remember and How We Forget
The widespread use of the Internet has created a virtual space serving as a venue for ordinary Chinese citizens to post their own recollections of their experiences during the Mao era. Against this memory boom in China, I will set up the “occasion” for creating a new interpretive frame to explore tensions of different memories of a shared traumatic historical moment.
Japanese major John Webb wins Quatrano Prize
John Webb, a senior majoring in biology, with a concentration in neuroscience, and in Japanese language and culture, all in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded the Ralph S. Quatrano Prize.
Chinese major says our Chinese program is 'impressive' and helped him prepare for the 'real world'
Meet Jimmy Loomis, a graduating senior and political science major, who is also the youngest elected representative in Missouri’s history.