Recent Academic Achievements by the Faculty Members
Shelley Fenno Quinn has been on Faculty Professional Leave in winter and spring quarters of 2009 to work on her book project about the significance of the life work of the modern Noh performer, Kanze Hisao, and his efforts to adapt to the changing audiences of postwar Japan. In July 2008, her work on the Noh theatre was featured in a column in the Nōgaku taimuzu ("Noh/Kyōgen Times"), a monthly published in Tokyo.
Charles Quinn was among the developers of "EAL2Share," a web site for reporting and archiving profiles of East Asian language programs, and took part in NEALRC’s poster presentation of its prototype at the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Orlando, in November, 2008. In April 2009, he gave a lecture, "The Rhetoric of Some Presupposing Expressions in Japanese," at Cornell University’s East Asia Program.
Patricia Sieber received Office of International Affairs funding to complete research for her current book project Rethinking the Power of Imprints: Book Culture and the Intercultural Formation of Chinese Studies, 1720-1860. She presented work from this project in the College of Chinese at Wuhan University, at the Association for Asian Studies and for the Chinese Culture Connection at OSU. She received Colleges of Arts and Humanities funding to organize a related conference tentatively entitled "Beyond Orientalism: Chinese Elites and the Intercultural Creation of Multidisciplinary Knowledge About China in the West." She also conducted research for a new project on Chinese opera film at the Shanghai Library, presented an invited talk on this new research in the Department of the Arts at Wuhan University, and organized a film series about Chinese opera film at OSU. She published on traditional drama in Encyclopedia of Modern China (Berkshire 2009) and authored several book reviews. In addition to her service at EASC & ICS, she served on Fulbright and ACLS review committees.
Books
Meow Hui Goh, Sound and Sight: Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming (483-493) Era, Stanford University Press, forthcoming.J. Marshall Unger, The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages, University of Hawai'i Press, Nov. 2008.
Presentations
Mark Bender presented "Musk Deer in Oral Literature of the Yi Ethnic Group, Southwest China," The University of Pittsburg, Oct. 31, 2008.Mark Bender presented "Perspectives on the Environment in Miao and Yi Creation Epics," The International Symposium on Creation Mythology in China, A Comparative Approach, Beijing, Oct. 16, 2008.
Marjorie Chan gave a speech "Cultural content through CFL and English-taught classes: Using Chinese operas and operatic films," (Keynote speaker) Workshop for Teachers of Chinese. Organized by the Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, April 25, 2009.
Marjorie Chan presented "The Princess in Distress: A linguistic study of humour in a Hong Kong Cantonese Opera," The 13th International Conference on Cantonese and Yue Dialects, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, December 18-20, 2008.
Marjorie Chan presented "Vernacular Cantonese vocabulary with upper register nasals and laterals: A diachronic study of lexical and orthographic changes," International Symposium on Dialects in South-East China: Diachronic Change and Language Contact, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, December 15-17, 2008.
Marjorie Chan presented "Humour and performed discourse: Issues and case studies from Cantonese opera," Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, December 12, 2008.
Meow Hui Goh presented "Compilation, Composition, Connection: Western Jin (265-316) Literary Culture," the Sixth Annual Chinese Medieval Studies Workshop at Columbia University, May 2, 2009.
Meow Hui Goh presented "Shengse: A Poetics of Sound and Sight in Early Medieval China," Arizona State University, Oct. 17, 2008.
Heather Inwood presented "Cyber Folk? Multimedia Poetry in the Aftermath of the Sichuan Earthquake," Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL, March 28, 2009.
Heather Inwood presented "For Better or For Worse? The Effects of the Media on Online Chinese Poetry," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Reno, NV, Oct.10, 2008.
M. Nakayama presented "Nominative case marking and verb inflection in L2 grammar: Evidence from Japanese college students' compositions" at the 2009 Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, March 14 with N. Yoshimura.
M. Nakayama presented "Nominative case and third person –s in Japanese students' compositions: What happens before and after Spell-Out?," with N. Yoshimura and P. Hawke, 2008 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, Dec. 6, 2008.
Mari Noda presented "Cultural Immersion and Isolation: What Study Abroad Curriculum can Offer," The Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Chicago, March 26, 2009.
Mari Noda presented "Foreign Language Education in the US: Challenges toward the Advanced Levels," at the Foreign Language Program Seminar at the Himeji Dokkyo University, Himeji, Japan, February 4, 2009.
Mari Noda presented 「次世代日本語教育に向けたグローバル•ネットワーク作り」('Developing a Global Network toward Japanese Language Education in the Next Generation'), International Conference on Japanese Language Education, Pusan, Korea, July 2008.
Mari Noda presented "Advanced Language Training and Study Abroad: Language Learning Environment for Advanced Learners," CATJ, Madison, WI, June 1, 2008.
Mari Noda presented "Coaching of Study Abroad Learners through 'Stories'," Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA, April 2008 with Hiroaki Kawamura.
Chan E. Park presented "Weaving Through the World of Art," a response paper to Sew, Sing, Dance, Women, "A Four-way Discussion on Women, Art and Creativity in 20th Century Korea and Beyond," the AAS Panel, March 28, 2009.
Chan E. Park delivered lecture/performances of her adaptation: Hungboga, a Tragicomic P'ansori of Economic Hardship, with Happy Ending! at St. Lawrence University's World Music, March 10 and Columbia University's Center for Korean Research, March 11, 2009.
Chan E. Park delivered with Kathy Foley of UCSC a reading of their original play, "Intertwined Lives: Korean and Western Women," in the Art-Theatre-Community: Sharing the Stage! Conference, University of California Santa Cruz, March 7, 2009.
Chan E. Park delivered the Korea Society Lecture Tour "Hûngboga: a Tragicomic P'ansori of Economic Hardship" at Union College, Feb. 3 and the Korea Society New York, Feb. 4, 2009
Chan E. Park presented "Flow and Irony: Locating Literary Modernity in Hahn Moo-Sook's Retrospective Gazes" in the 16th Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium, George Washington University, Nov. 8, 2008.
Danielle O. Pyun presented "Curricular models for heritage Korean learners in U.S. Colleges," The 18th International Conference on Korean Language Education, Seoul, Korea, Aug., 2008.
Charles Quinn gave a lecture, "The Rhetoric of Some Presupposing Expressions in Japanese," at the East Asia Program, Cornell University, in April 2009.
Charles Quinn took part in NEALRC's poster presentation of its prototype at the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Orlando, in November 2008.
J. Marshall Unger provided written and oral commentaries for "Visible Speech," an exhibition sampling of the world's writing systems in color photographs, for the Foreign Language Center and DEALL, May 8, 2009.
J. Marshall Unger delivered a lecture "Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages: Divergence and Contact" at the Edwin. O. Reischauer Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 21, 2008.
J. Marshall Unger delivered a lecture "Some Remarks on Hankul Transcriptions of Middle Japanese" at the inaugural symposium of the Hwunmin cengum Society, Seoul National University, Korea, Oct. 9, 2008.
J. Marshall Unger delivered a lecture "Borrowing Nouns as Verb Roots: The Case of Korean and Japanese" at the conference Verbal Morphology and the Historical Comparison of the Trans-Eurasian Languages, the Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany, Sept. 4, 2008.
Galal Walker presented "Pathways to Advanced Skills, 1993-2009" at the 50th Anniversary of the Title VI Programs in Washington DC, March 19, 2009. The talk covered the work of the OSU National East Asian Languages Resource Center over the past fifteen years. The talk was accompanied by a multi-media presentation developed by Dr. Minru Li and the Hypermedia Studio of the Foreign Language Center led by Dr. Diane Birckbichler.
Galal Walker gave a plenary "Best Practices" presentation entitled "Challenges and Opportunities in the Field of K-12: The case of the State of Ohio" at the International Education Programs Services Conference in Crystal City, Maryland, Feb. 3, 2009.
Etsuyo Yuasa presented "Conflicting parts of speech categorization and the autonomy of syntax and semantics," Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, Princeton University, May 2-3, 2009.
Etsuyo Yuasa presented "A multi-modular account of nominal modal expressions in Japanese," European Association for Japanese Studies Conference, Lecce, Italy, September, 20-23, 2008.
Publications
Mark Bender, "Tribes of Snow: Animals and Plants in the Nuosu Book of Origins," Asian Ethnology Vol. 67-1, pp.5-42.Mark Bender and Aku Wuwu, trans. Soul of the "Felt Cloak," (Jieshyyr yyr hla) Frank Stewart and Barry Lopez, eds. Manoa, 20(1):93-95. (Special edition, entitled Gates of Reconciliation: Literature and the Ethical Imagination.)
Mark Bender, Aku Wuwu, and Jjiepa Ayi, trans. "Tiger Skins," Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, ed. Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, New York: W.W. Norton and Company. (Reprint from Manoa 17)
Marjorie Chan, "History of NACCL: The First Two Decades," Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), Vol.1, pp. xiii-xviii.
Marjorie Chan, "Modality effects revisited: Iconicity in Chinese Sign Language." (with Wang Xu), Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), Vol. 1, pp. 343-360.
Marjorie Chan, (Guest editor) Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Vol. 43, Number 2. 2008.
Marjorie Chan (Editor, with Hana Kang) Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). 2 Volumes. 2008. Columbus, OH: East Asian Studies Center, The Ohio State University.
Heather Inwood, "Identity Politics in Online Chinese Poetry Groups," Postmodern China (Chinese History and Society), Vol. 34, pp. 77-94.
M. Nakayama and N. Yoshimura "Japanese EFL learners' skills improvement and the length of study abroad programs," Ars Linguistica Vol. 15, pp. 54-64.
M. Nakayama and N. Yoshimura "Japanese health sciences doctoral students in a study abroad context," Journal of International Relations and Comparative Culture Vol. 7, No.1, pp. 151-161.
M. Nakayama, (editor) Journal of Japanese Linguistics 24, December 2008.
M. Nakayama and N. Yoshimura, "Eigoryoku-no koojoo-ni yakudatsu kaigai kenshuu-towa [Useful study abroad programs to improve one's English proficiency]," Eigo Kyoiku [The English Teacher's Magazine], Vol. 57, No. 13, pp. 50-53, February 2009.
Noda, Mari and Masayuki Itomitsu. 2008. Japanese: The Spoken Language Parts 2/3 DVD Program and User's Guide. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Noda, Mari. 2009. "Language Learning Environment for Advanced Learners" in Hasegawa, Atsushi, Shima Chiharu, and Junko Mori (Eds.) Toward Advanced Japanese Language Proficiency, Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese, 3–14.
Eda, Sanae, Masayuki Itomitsu, and Mari Noda. 2008. "Japanese Skills Test (SJKIT) as an on-demand placement test: Validation studies and reliability analysis," Foreign Language Annals Vol. 41, no. 2, 218–236.
Chan E. Park, "A Literary Study of P'ansori 2008," P'ansori, National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts Korean Music Manuscript Series, pp. 129-162.
Chan E. Park reviewed Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave edited by Keith Howard (Global Oriental LTD, 2006) in World of Music Journal.
Chan E. Park reviewed Four Contemporary Korean Plays by Lee Yun-Taek, translated by Dongwook Kim and Richard Nichols, with Introductions by Richard Nichols (University Press of America, Inc. 2007) in Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 25 No. 2.
Danielle O. Pyun reviewed Teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Heritage Language Students: Curriculum needs, Materials, and Assessment, in The Modern Language Journal, 93(2), 319-321.
Danielle O. Pyun "Curricular models for heritage Korean learners in U.S. Colleges," Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Korean Language Education, Seoul, Korea, 343-359.
Richard Torrance, "The People's Library: 'The Spirit of Prose Literature' vs. Fascism" in The Culture of Japanese Fascism, ed. Alan Tansman (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009), pp. 56-79.
J. Marshall Unger, "Two Japanese Vegetable Names Borrowed from Korean," Korean Linguistics, Vol. 14, pp. 223–29.
Etsuyo Yuasa, "An Autolexical account of variation in grammatical relations," Proceedings from the Panels of the Forty-First Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, pp 285-299.
Etsuyo Yuasa, "From the core to the periphery: The tense system in Japanese," Japanese Language and Literature 42 (2), 495-510.
Etsuyo Yuasa, Review of Kazuhiro Teruya, A Systemic Functional Grammar of Japanese, Japanese Language and Literature 42 (2), 516-523.
Service
Meow Hui Goh serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the American Oriental Society, Western Branch.Meow Hui Goh serves as a reviewer for the journal Asia Major.
Mark Bender chaired a panel entitled "Transformation and Performance in Contemporary Chinese Contexts" at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society, Louisville, Kentucky, Oct. 2008.
Marjorie Chan was the inaugural Webmaster, an appointed officer position, for the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) beginning in November 1997, stepping down at the end of December 2008 after serving in that capacity for eleven years.
Marjorie Chan was an external examiner in autumn 2008 on a M. Phil. thesis in the Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong. The thesis title is: Loanword Truncation and Optimal Word Length: Evidence from Cantonese.
Chan E. Park hosted three Korean Studies Lectures in April 2009:
1. "A New View on Koguryo State," Mark Byington, April 6, 2009.
2. "Mini-fiction Workshop" by Koo Jamyung, April 21, 2009.
3. "Personal Journey into the Korean Fictional World" by the Novelist Koo Jamyung, April 23, 2009.
Chan E. Park served as member of the International Korean Studies Online Database Negotiation Committee, March 2008 to Present.
Chan E. Park hosted the faculty performance tour by Korean National University of Art, Hughes Auditorium, Nov. 12, 2008.
Chan E. Park co-hosted the Korea Society-EASC-KSI Nick Bonner's film, Crossing the Line, Oct. 30, 2008.
Danielle O. Pyun served on the Board of Directors of AATK (American Association for Teachers of Korean), 2008-2009.
Danielle O. Pyun reviewed grant proposals for the Korean Foundation and AATK (American Association for Teachers of Korean) Teaching Fellow Grant, April, 2009.
Danielle O. Pyun served on the national review committee for applications for the Critical Language Scholarship, Dec. 2008.
Danielle O. Pyun served as a manuscript reviewer for the journal, Korean Language in America, Nov. 2008.
Charles Quinn was among the developers of "EAL2Share," a web site for reporting and archiving profiles of East Asian language programs, 2009.
J. Marshall Unger reviewed a research grant proposal by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Jan. 2009.
J. Marshall Unger reviewed a research grant proposal for the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain, Belgium), 2009.
J. Marshall Unger is serving as the Acting Director of the Institute for Japanese Studies 2008-2009.
Galal Walker was interviewed by Steve Rowe, Reuters News Agency, concerning Internet-based Chinese language instruction, March 6, 2009. The interview focused on a newly developed program entitled "Kids' Chinese Club" hosted by Daisy Raffan in England. Professor spoke about the importance of learning a foreign language at an early age and about promoting the study of Chinese in Britain and the United States.
Galal Walker participated in a discussion on the Asian Hour, WERE 1300, Cleveland, Feb. 22, 2009. Mr. Anthony Yan, a prominent Cleveland businessman, and Mr. Kun Shi, director of the OSU K-12 Chinese Flagship Program, also engaged in the discussion. Topic included US-China relations, intercultural communication, the role of Confucius Institutes, and Chinese language study in Ohio.
Etsuyo Yuasa served on the national review committee for research proposals for the Fulbright program (Japan/Korea, Students), Dec. 2008.
