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Joowon Suh

Joowon Suh

Senior Lecturer in Korean; Director of the Korean Language Program

Office: 502-D Kent Hall
Office Hours: T 1:00-2:00 pm, W 4:00-5:00 pm
Phone: (212) 854-5037
Email: js604@columbia.edu

Educational Background

EdD: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2007)
EdM: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2000)

Classes Taught

First Year Korean

Fifth Year Korean

Research Interests

Korean Linguistics and Language Pedagogy
Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics
Interlanguage Pragmatics

Joowon Suh is a Senior Lecturer in Korean and the Director of the Korean Language Program. She is also the coordinator of the EALAC Language Programs. Prior to joining Columbia in 2017, she taught at Princeton University as Senior Lecturer and Director of the Korean Language Program.

In collaboration, she revised the KLEAR Integrated Korean Textbook Series and created both second and third edition of the accompanying workbook series. She also served on the task forces that created Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Korean (2012) and College Korean Curriculum Inspired by National Standards for Korean (2015).

She served as President of the American Association of Teachers of Korean in 2018-21. She is currently serving on the editorial boards of The Education of Korean Language and Language and Information Society and as a reviewer for L2 Journal, The Korean Language in America and Journal of Less Commonly Taught Languages.

Publications

Literacies and Multiliteracies in Korean Language Learning and Teaching. In Y. Y. Cho (Ed.) Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Theories and Practices (pp. 117-146). (co-author; Routledge, 2021).

English as lingua franca in multilingual business negotiations: Managing miscommunication using other-initiated repairs. In L. Grujicic-Alatriste (Ed.), Linking discourse studies to professional practice (pp. 43-64) (Multilingual Matters, 2015)

KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Intermediate 2 (2020; co-author)
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Intermediate 1 (2020; co-author)
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Beginning 2 (2019; co-author)
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Beginning 1 (2019; co-author)

Naoko Sourial

Naoko Sourial

Lecturer in Japanese

Office: 514 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MW 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Email: nns2111@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Japanese Pedagogy, Columbia University
BA: British and American Studies, Nanzan Universtiy

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1101 First Year Japanese I
JPNS UN1102 First Year Japanese II
JPNS UN1001 Introductory Japanese A & B
JPNS UN2201 Second Year Japanese II

Research Interests

Language Pedagogy

Content-Based Instruction

Project-Based Learning

Naoko Sourial majored in British and American Studies and American Philosophy at Nanzan University (Nagoya, Japan). She received her MA in Japanese Pedagogy at Columbia University. Ms. Sourial has many years of experience teaching Japanese. She has taught at Columbia University, The New School, NYU, and Baruch College (CUNY). She has developed and designed curriculum for advanced-level content courses such as Japanese Pop Culture at The New School.

Recent Publications

“Language Learning through Fashion – NYC as a Language Classroom” (The Third Annual NYU Conference on Second Language Pedagogy, Teaching Literacy and the Multiliteracies Framework, April 2021)

“Learning “Japanese Pop Culture” with Self-Taught Learners – Teacher’s Roles in Curriculum Design of Japanese Advanced-level Courses” (American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), March 2020, presented as the pedagogy panel with a panel title, “What Is Happening in Japanese Classes Now with Increasing Numbers of Self-Taught Learners?)

 “Content-Based Instruction Efforts to Develop Japanese Learners’ Critical Awareness toward Social Justice” (2019 Foreign Language Education Symposium (FLEDS), Monterey, CA,  2019)

“Connecting and Reflecting through Fashion: Advanced Japanese Curriculum Design using Anthropological and Sociological Approach” (The 25th Princeton Pedagogy Forum Proceedings, 2019)

Filed Under: Emeritus

Henry Smith

Henry Smith

PROFESSOR EMERITUS

Email: hds2@columbia.edu

Educational History

AB: Yale University (’62)
AM: Harvard University (’64)
PhD: Harvard University (’70)

Research Interests

History of Early Modern Japan, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Urban History of Edo/Tokyo, Chūshingura

Professor Smith wrote his dissertation on the prewar Japanese student movement, published as Japan’s First Student Radicals (Harvard, 1972) and Shinjinkai no kenkyû: Nihon gakusei undô no genryû (Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1972). His recent work deals with aspects of the history of Chūshingura, in an effort to integrate the historical Akô Incident with its many later stage and literary versions as a unified history of storytelling in Japan.

Professor Smith continues his research on various dimensions of the “Chūshingura” story, looking at the various ways in which the Ako Incident of the “47 Ronin” of 1701–1703 has become Japan’s “national legend” through retelling, embellishment, and reenactment in multiple media over three centuries. More recently, he has turned to research on the modern history of the city of Kyoto and the ways in which Kyoto has become the focus of a continuing reinterpretation of the meaning of “tradition” in modern Japan.

He has written extensively on woodblock prints, including Hiroshige, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Hokusai, One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji, and Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988). For his recent writings and translations, see his webpage.

Selected Publications

“The Trouble with Terasaka: The Forty-Seventh Rōnin and the Chūshingura Imagination,” Nichibunken Japan Review (2004)

Hokusai, One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji (George Braziller Inc., 1988)

Hiroshige, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (George Braziller, Inc., 1986)

Learning from SHŌGUN: Japanese History and Western Fantasy (editor and co-author, Santa Barbara, 1980)

Japan’s First Student Radicals (Harvard, 1972)

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