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.

Elsa Chanez receives library essay award

4.28.23

Chanez receives 2023 Neureuther essay award

Elsa Chanez receives awards

4.19.23

Elsa Chanez selected for Graduate Student Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center and receives a Japan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award

Kang wins ACLS Fellowship

4.14.23

Kang won an ACLS Fellowship for his project “Artisanal Heart: The Vernacular Engineers of Early Modern Korea.”

New grant to explore Asian Americans’ history in St. Louis

4.13.23

A new research project at Washington University in St. Louis will study the history of Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans in St. Louis.

Lei Hu Article Published

4.10.23

Lei's article "Immersed in the Fleeting World of Modernity: Edo Music and the Aestheticism of Melancholy in Nagai Kafū’s Literary World" published in Japanese Language and Literature Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (April 2023)

‘Kasa’: Celebrating women’s journeys in Korea

4.10.23

어와우리 벗님네야, 이내말삼 드러보소 (“Hello my friends, please listen to what I am about to tell you”). For more than 500 years, Korean women have invited listeners to relive moments of their lives — excursions, celebrations, concerns and more — chronicled in the form of ‘kasa,’ a verse narrative. Scholar Ji-Eun Lee (East Asian Languages & Cultures) dives into their stories as part of a project on the evolution of the modern Korean woman of the 20th century.

Promotion: Wei Wang

3.8.23

Wei Wang promoted to Teaching Professor

Obituary: George C. Hatch, professor emeritus in Arts & Sciences, 85

3.6.23

Hatch taught Chinese history at WashU for more than three decades

Ran Wei Article Published in Transnational Asia Journal

2.17.23

Ran Wei's article, "Solidarity on the Margins: Narrating the Zainichi in Yi Yang-ji’s 'Woman Diver' (Kazukime, 1983) and Nakagami Kenji’s 'Flower Boy' (Fuaramu, 1980)" was published in the special issue "Revisiting Zainichi" of the online journal Transnational Asia.