Celebrating Rebecca Copeland's retirement

4.24.26

EALC celebrates Rebecca Copeland's retirement

Hegel wins MLA translation award

12.16.25

Robert E. Hegel, the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature in Arts & Sciences, will receive the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work from the Modern Language Association of America (MLA).

Meet the WashU professor who helped shape ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

8.29.25

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.

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ directors on how they made the Netflix animated hit

8.7.25

Mijeong Mimi Kim | Forbes

Promotion: Heayoung Chun

3.24.25

promotion to senior lecturer

Mano Yasuda receives 2025 Outstanding Faculty Award

3.18.25

Graduate and Professional Student Council award to Dr. Yasuda

Korean faculty receive WashU Digital Transformation grant

2.24.25

DI2 Accelerator Award for Open Educational Resources

‘Meet Me in St. Louis’: The Chinese experience at the 1904 World’s Fair

2.18.25

Dignitaries representing China at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair got the media attention, but historian Zhao Ma wondered about the lives of the workers — interpreters, merchants, cooks and carpenters — who supported China’s mission. Traveling to the U.S. the height of the Chinese Exclusion Act, they faced intense scrutiny and discrimination at every turn.

KMOX Series: USA's international relations under Trump- Part 2 China

2.6.25

Zhao Ma | KMOX Series podcast

How America fell in love with China's memes

1.31.25

Jianqing Chen quoted in BBC article

What’s happening on RedNote? A media scholar explains the app TikTok users are fleeing to — and the cultural moment unfolding there

1.30.25

Jianqing Chen | The Conversation

Tracking the tap: A historical and cultural analysis of Chinese touchscreen media

11.19.24

Media studies scholar Jianqing Chen’s new book project examines touchscreen media, a phenomenon so new it has yet to receive scholarly examination. Focusing on China’s 1 billion users — representing a fifth of smartphone users worldwide — she’s constructing a story that weaves together the technology’s origins as well as its implications for global digital life.