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.
Five faculty members honored for teaching excellence
Amanda Carey, Mijeong Mimi Kim, Frank Lovett, Eleanor Pardini, and Jen Smith are among the St. Louis-area educators who received the 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award.
China’s WeChat is all-encompassing but low-key − a Chinese media scholar explains the Taoist philosophy behind the everything app’s design
Article by Jianqing Chen in The Conversation
Participants find new passion, perspectives through the Creative Practice Workshop
The Center for the Literary Arts provides faculty members with the chance to develop their creative work in a tight-knit, highly collaborative space.
Rebecca Copeland receives Jackson and Caroline Bailey Public Service Award
MCAA honors Rebecca Copeland with the 2023 Jackson and Caroline Bailey Public Service Award.
Ran Wei to address the Kyoto Asian Studies Group
Ran Wei, PhD candidate in Japanese Literature, to address the Kyoto Asian Studies Group on the representations of the urban margins in modern and contemporary Japanese literature and media
Laurel Taylor attends British Centre for Literary Translation
EALC graduate student participates in the Japanese Workshop at the British Centre for Literary Translation
EALC welcomes new faculty in FL23
Meet our new faculty
Yuan Gao joins Graduate Student Fellows
Yuan Kevin Gao, one of six Graduate Student Fellows in the humanistic disciplines, will join the Center for the Humanities for a semester in residence during the 2023–24 academic year.
Elsa Chanez participates in National Humanities Center Graduate Student Summer Residency program
EALC PhD student invited to attend Graduate Student Summer Residency
Alumna awarded Fulbright award
Paige Lockwood, who graduated in 2021 with a bachelor’s in Chinese language and culture from Arts & Science, earned an award to teach English in Taiwan.
Second Annual David Sands Holloway Memorial Awards
EALC awards three students the David Sands Holloway Memorial Award for papers that explore issues of gender in Japanese literature and culture.
Stellar literary networks
A serendipitous succession of events led Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellow Laurel Taylor to discover Japan’s cell-phone novel, an early 2000s genre that made authors out of anonymous amateurs and readers out of millions of flip-phone users.