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DEALL Temporarily Suspends GRE Test Score Requirements
Due to the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on ETS testing centers across the globe, the department faculty recently voted to temporarily suspend GRE test score requirements for Graduate…

DEALL Grad Students Gather at Mirror Lake
On Saturday, October 17, 2020 a small group of DEALL graduate students took a break from their busy schedules and gathered at Mirror Lake. They met briefly to enjoy socially-distanced…

Prof. Naomi Fukumori To Lead Institute For Japanese Studies
Naomi Fukumori, associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been appointed director of the Institute for Japanese Studies (IJS), beginning January 1, 2021.…

Prof. Danielle Pyun To Lead Institute For Korean Studies
Danielle Pyun, associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been appointed director of the Institute for Korean Studies (IKS), beginning September 1, 2020.…

Teaching Highlight: Professor Naomi Fukumori’s “The Monstrous in Japanese Culture”
Professor Naomi Fukumori’s instructional design of “The Monstrous in Japanese Culture,” a course she taught for the first time in Autumn 2019, is featured on the Michael V. Drake Institute for…

Xie awarded collaborative grant for workshop on best practices, Chinese linguistics teaching
Dr. Zhiguo Xie (Associate Professor of Chinese Linguistics in DEALL), along with Ms. Fang Liu (Senior Lecturer of Chinese at Oberlin College), has been awarded a grant from the Ohio 5 + OSU Mellon…

Wei Liu has been chosen for the 2020 Saboohi I. Khan Award
Wei Liu, a DEALL PhD student has been chosen for the 2020 Saboohi I. Khan Award for Student Scholarship in Asian and Asian American Folklore. The Transnational Asia/…

Prof. Meow Hui Goh Awarded EASC COVID-19 Grant
The East Asian Studies Center is pleased to announce Prof. Meow Hui Goh as our first recipient for the COVID-19 mini-grant. Prof. Goh’s proposal, titled “Talk Back to the Pandemic: Innovations in…

Teaching of Conversational Cantonese at OSU: The Cantonese Gamluhk (“Golden Buck”) Fund
The teaching of Conversational Cantonese at OSU is a very recent phenomenon. The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL), which began life in 1962 as the Division of East Asian…