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.
Mimi Kim receives appointment as Teaching Professor of Korean Language
Congratulations on this promotion!
"How a foreign correspondent became an internet star in China with just one question"
Little did Kuhn know that his esoteric question about what officials were doing to help those living in poverty on the outskirts of Beijing would make him famous on the Chinese internet.
Li Wei, PhD student in Chinese Literature and Language
Receives Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence Honorable Mention
Professor Zhao Ma receives tenure
Congratulations to Professor Zhao Ma who has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor!
Missouri, a refuge for tolerance
We want to avoid the mistakes of the past, but too often we fall back into old habits.
From Roosevelt to Trump, Japanese Americans see similarity in executive orders signed 75 years apart
As Trump promises to continue his push for immigration restrictions, Washington University will hold on Friday a public forum called “Executive Orders: The Living Legacy of Japanese American Internment.”
Rebecca Copeland reflects on the legacy of Japanese American internment, 75 years after it started
By June of 1942, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced to leave behind their belongings, property and livelihoods to be relocated and incarcerated in internment camps across the country.
Historically Hot
On Feb. 9 at 4:00pm, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures will welcome featured speaker Laura Miller, who will give a lecture titled “Historically Hot: Reimagining Beauty from Japan’s Past.
Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Collection
Professor Robert Hegel's new book Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Collection, has been published by the University of Washington Press.
Professor Zhao Ma contributes to PBS documentary The Battle of Chosin
Professor Zhao Ma receives Special Thanks for his contribution to the making of the PBS documentary The Battle of Chosin which will air on PBS on November 1, 2016.
WashU Offers New Korean Major
This year, Washington University has introduced a new Korean Language and Culture major.
"Sexing Korea" makes Elle magazine's list of fall's coolest college classes
Taught by Dr. Jung Ja Choi, #5 on list of classes giving hope to the next generation.