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DEALL Chair Mark Bender welcomes Prof. Sean Allan of the University of St Andrews, Scotland for a department and campus tour
DEALL Chair Mark Bender welcomes Prof. Sean Allan of the University of St Andrews, Scotland for a department and campus tour on October 10, 2019. Prof. Allan is visiting top Chinese language…
DEALL Faculty Involvement in the Second-Year Transformational Experience Program (STEP)
DEALL faculty members Mark Bender, Naomi Fukumori, Steven Knicely, and Jianqi Wang are all serving as faculty mentors in the Second-Year Transformational Experience Program (STEP) during 2019-20.…
Summer Research Recap: The MET’s “The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated”
DEALL faculty members, Patricia Sieber and Naomi Fukumori, and DEALL graduate student Lindsey Stirek conducted a research trip to New York City in May 2019 to view the exhibition “The Tale of…
Lindsey Stirek awarded the 2019 ENGIE-Axium Scholarship Award by The Graduate School
Lindsey Stirek, Ph.D. student in Japanese literature, has been awarded the 2019 ENGIE-Axium Scholarship Award by The Graduate School. This $5000 scholarship award is in acknowledgement of…
2018-2019 "EASC expOSUre" now available
The East Asian Studies Center invites you to view the electronic publication of the Academic Year 2018-2019 EASC expOSUre newsletter. You can access the newsletter here. This issue includes columns…
Mario De Grandis awarded the Gordon P.K. Chu Memorial Scholarship for 2019
Mario is a recipient of the Gordon P.K. Chu Memorial Scholarship for 2019. The committee received 36 applications in this category and rigorously reviewed all of the applications. Mario is one of…
The Department of East Asian Languages is a co-host for the spring semester President and Provost’s Diversity Lecture
The Department of East Asian Languages is a co-host for the spring semester President and Provost’s Diversity Lecture. The event features Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ph.D.,…
Dr. Priya Ananth was awarded the 2019 Teacher of the Year Award by the Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese
SEATJ Conference ReportThe Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese (SEATJ) is pleased to announce that the 2019 SEATJ Teacher of the Year was awarded to Dr. Priya Ananth, Associate…
Bender completes poetry lecture tour
Mark Bender, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and internationally known indigenous poet Aku Wuwu, dean of Yi Ethnic Studies at Southwest Minzu University of…