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There are currently eighteen full-time faculty, half of whom are female. It is one of the most active and productive of any faculty in the country in East Asian studies, with the publication of over thirty books in Chinese and Japanese literature and linguistics, and numerous articles and conference presentations. It is also the former site of the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, which was edited by faculty members for nearly fifteen years. As of January 1998, it is the site of the Chinese Language Teachers Association Home Page, maintained by Prof. Marjorie Chan and co-hosted by the College of Humanities and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. DEALL is also the new home of the journal, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. Prof. Kirk Denton is the Editor. Other Web sites maintained by DEALL faculty include Prof. Mari Noda's SPEAC home page for the Summer Program East Asian Concentration, and Prof. Galal Walker's US/China Links, a part of the OSU Chinese Flagship Program. In addition, there are, of course, other Web pages created in the Department by faculty, including course pages and other interesting links.
Faculty have organized a number of workshops, symposia, and conferences over the years. They have received research grants from such organizations and agencies as the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Humanities Council, and the Social Science Research Council. In addition, several faculty have received Japan Foundation and Fulbright-Hays fellowships, as well as a grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo(CCK) Foundation. One faculty was named a National Foreign Language Center Fellow, and another was selected as one of the University's first Lilly Foundation Fellows. Two faculty were in Japan as Fulbright scholars for the 1993-94 academic year, while a third was a Visiting Scholar at Tohoku University, holding one of the most prestigious positions available for an American scholar of Japanese.
Faculty are also engaged in consultation with business and industry and evaluation of programs at other universities. Consultations with businesses include the teaching of Japanese or Chinese to employees of Battelle, Borg-Warner, and Honda. Faculty have evaluated programs at Bryn Mawr, Wittenberg, Berkeley, and Connecticut College, among others.
