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David Max Moerman

moermanD. Max Moerman

Professor, Chair of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College

Office: 303 Milbank
Office Hours: T 4:30-5:30, W 1:00-2:00 and by appointment.
Phone: (212) 854-5540
Email: dm438@columbia.edu

Educational Background

AB: Columbia College (’86)
PhD: Stanford University (’99)

Classes Taught

AHUM UN1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia
RELI GU4611 The Lotus Sutra

Research Interests

East Asian Buddhism, Visual and Material Culture of Japanese Religions

D. Max Moerman is Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures. He is Co-Chair of the Columbia University Seminar in Buddhist Studies and an Associate Director of the Columbia Center for Buddhism and Asian Religions. He holds an A.B. from Columbia College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research interests are in the visual and material culture of Japanese religions. His current book project, Geographies of the Imagination: Buddhism and the Japanese World Map, is under contract with the Harvard University Asia Center.

Selected Publications

“The Buddha and the Bathwater: Defilement and Enlightenment in the Arima Engi,”
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (2015)

“Demonology and Eroticism: Islands of Women in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (2009)

Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2005)

Yuan-Yuan Meng

Yuan-Yuan Meng

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 615 Kent Hall
Office Hours: R 3:00-5:00
Phone: (212)854-0660
Email: ym11@columbia.edu

Educational Background

EdM: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University
BA: Education, with a minor in English, National Taiwan Normal University

Classes Taught

UN1101-UN1102 First-year Chinese N I & II
UN1111-UN1112 First-year Chinese W I & II
UN2201-UN2202 Second-year Chinese N I & II
UN2221-UN2222 Second-year Chinese W I & II
CHNS GU4015-GU4016 Fourth Year Chinese I & II
CHNS GU4014-GU4015 Media Chinese I & II

Research Interests

Formulaic Language
Formative Assessment
Second Language Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary Acquisition
Stylistic Features of Chinese Journalistic Language

Yuan-Yuan Meng is Senior Lecturer in Chinese. She is also a certified tester for the Chinese Oral Proficiency Interview by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Her research interests include formulaic language, formative assessment, second language reading, writing, and vocabulary acquisition, and stylistic features of Chinese journalistic language. Her most recent publications include “Written Corrective Feedback: A Review of Studies Since Truscott 1996,” “A curious Lexicographic Relic of the Cultural Revolution (co-authored with David Branner), and “A dynamic view on morphosyntactic accuracy and complexity in dyadic interaction.” She is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled: A dictionary of Chinese idioms.

Publications

Meng, Y. (2019). A dynamic view on morphosyntactic accuracy and complexity in dyadic interaction. In Z.-H. Han (ed.), Profiling learner language as a dynamic system (pp. 17-47). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.          “Written Corrective Feedback: A Review of Studies Since Truscott 1996″ (Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2013)
“A Curious Lexicographic Relic of the Cultural Revolution” (The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2013; co-author)
“Syntactic yoga in Chinese-English lexicography” (Zhōnghuá zìdiǎnyánjiū, 2010; co-author)
Book Chapter David and Helen in China: An intermediate course in modern Chinese (Yale University Press, 1999; co-author)

Matthew McKelway

mckelwayMatthew McKelway

TAKEO AND ITSUKO ATSUMI PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE ART HISTORY

Office: 919 Schermerhorn Hall
Phone: (212) 854-3182
Email: mpm8@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Columbia University (’99)

Classes Taught

HUMA OC1121 Masterpieces of Western Art
AHIS GR8609 Calligraphy in East Asia
AHIS GR8128 Edo Period Painting

Research Interests

Japanese Art History, Urban Representation, Materiality of Painting

Matthew McKelway specializes in the history of Japanese painting. His research has focused on urban representation in rakuchū rakugai zu (screen paintings of Kyoto), the development of genre painting in early modern Japan, Kano school painting, and individualist painters in 18th century Kyoto. Interests in the materiality and techniques of Japanese painting and the early Kano workshop have led to recent articles and a current book project on fan paintings as media for social intercourse and pictorial experimentation. In addition to his research on fan paintings, he is conducting an ongoing study of the painter Nagasawa Rosetsu.

The courses McKelway offers include surveys of Japanese art and more specialized undergraduate courses on painting and Buddhist art. Topics of graduate seminars and lectures have ranged from narrative handscrolls and Muromachi ink painting to the Kano school, Rimpa, and Edo-period painting. To graduate students in Japanese art history and other disciplines he also offers instruction in reading early Japanese scripts (hentaigana/kuzushiji). Current doctoral students have received research fellowships from the Fulbright commission, the Japan Foundation, the Japanese Ministry of Education, and the Shinchō Foundation.

Professor McKelway has been the Ishibashi Gastprofessur at the University of Heidelberg, and has also held visiting professorships at the Free University of Berlin and Waseda University. His Department of Art History & Archaeology page can be found here.

Selected Publications

Silver Wind: The Arts of Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828) (Japan Society/Yale University Press, 2012)

Capitalscapes: Folding Screens and Political Imagination in Late Medieval Kyoto (University of Hawaii, 2006)

Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters from Eighteenth-Century Kyoto (San Francisco Asian Art Museum, 2005)