Yahui Anita Huang
Yahui Anita Huang![](http://ealac.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Yahui-300x300.jpeg)
Associate Research Scholar
E-mail: yah2109@columbia.edu
Anita Huang was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010. Her principal academic specializations include Chinese linguistics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, second language pedagogy, and language for specific purposes. She has ten years of experience in building college Chinese programs and in teaching Chinese language, culture, and general linguistics courses. She also works as an interpreter and translator. Her current research interests lie in politeness in historical and contemporary Chinese and qi in Chinese culture. She speaks German, English, Mandarin, and Southern Min.
Dissertation
“On the Form and Meaning of Chinese Bare Conditionals: Not Just Whatever”
Selected Publications
“On the Practice of Cultivating Body-and-Mind: The Religious Significance of Zhu Xi’s Confucian Hermeneutics,” by Peng Guoxiang, translated by Daniel Coyle and Yahui Anita Huang, in Zhu Xi Now, New York: SUNY, 2015.
“Teaching Business Chinese: The Importance and Methodology of Building Pragmatic Competence and the Case of Buhaoyisi,” Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes, pp. 110-121, 2013.
Courses Taught
Elementary Chinese
Intermediate Chinese
Chinese for the Workplace (Business Chinese)
Chinese for the Professions (Medical Chinese)
Reading Chinese Media
Conversation Chinese
Explorations of Qi “Life-energy” (in English)
How Language Works (in English)
Hetty Ye-Jae Lee
Hetty Ye-Jae Lee
Field: Korean Cultural History
Advisor: Theodore Hughes
Email: yl2693@columbia.edu
Hetty is a PhD student in EALAC focusing on modern Korean cultural history. Her research interests include Korean socialist feminist literature and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) studies. Under this umbrella, she is interested in analyzing women’s writing, censorship, and the intersections between colonialism, socialism, and the history of science and technology in 20th century Korea.
Hetty received her BA in comparative literature from Princeton University in 2017 with a focus on German and Ancient Greek literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. She received her MA in modern Korean literature and cultural studies from Columbia University in 2023.