Five faculty members honored for teaching excellence

10.31.23

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

10.23.23

Article by Jianqing Chen in The Conversation

Participants find new passion, perspectives through the Creative Practice Workshop

10.18.23

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

9.22.23

MCAA honors Rebecca Copeland with the 2023 Jackson and Caroline Bailey Public Service Award.

Ran Wei to address the Kyoto Asian Studies Group

9.21.23

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

9.14.23

EALC graduate student participates in the Japanese Workshop at the British Centre for Literary Translation

EALC welcomes new faculty in FL23

9.1.23

Meet our new faculty

Yuan Gao joins Graduate Student Fellows

9.1.23

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

8.31.23

EALC PhD student invited to attend Graduate Student Summer Residency

Alumna awarded Fulbright award

6.1.23

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

5.4.23

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

5.1.23

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.