Faculty-Discipline

Lingjun Hu

Lingjun Hu

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 508 Kent Hall
Office Hours: W, Th 2:20-3:20pm
Phone: (212) 854-2311
Email: lh2318@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Cognitive Studies of Education, Teacher’s College, Columbia University
MA: Chinese Language Pedagogy, Ohio State University (2003)
BA: English Language and Literature, Xi’an Foreign Language University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1102 First Year Chinese II
CHNS UN3003 Third Year Chinese I
CHNS UN3004 Third Year Chinese II

Research Interests

Second Language Acquisition
Chinese Language Pedagogy

Lingjun Hu started teaching Chinese in 2000 and joined Columbia faculty in 2006, and has taught Chinese at all levels. She has also taught for the Columbia and Princeton summer programs in Beijing. She has developed teaching materials for Chinese programs and is in charge of the language placement test and the language certificate. She is the co-author of two textbooks for Business Chinese.

Publications

Winning Strategies: Learning Business Chinese. 商务中文案例教程（听说卷 (Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press, in press; lead author)
Excellence in Business Chinese– Practical application 卓越汉语公司实战篇 (Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press, 2011; co-author)
Teach Chinese in the United States (Beijing University Press, in press; co-author)

Robert Harrist

Robert E. Harrist Jr.

JANE AND LEOPOLD SWERGOLD PROFESSOR OF CHINESE ART HISTORY

Office: 933 Schermerhorn Hall
Office Hours: By appointment only
Phone: (212) 854-8532
Email: reh23@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BS: Indiana University (’75)
MA: Columbia University (’80)
PhD: Princeton University (’89)

Robert E. Harrist Jr. has published books and articles on Chinese painting, calligraphy, and gardens, as well as on topics such as replicas in Chinese art, clothing in 20th-century China, and contemporary artists such as Xu Bing. His most recent book, The Landscape of Words, which studies the role of language in shaping perceptions of the natural world, was awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize in 2010.

Selected Publications

The Landscape of Words (Washington, 2008)

Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin, (Princeton, 1998)

Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art (Art Media Resources, 1997)

Shigeru Eguchi

Shigeru Eguchi

Senior Lecturer in Japanese

Office: 518 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 1:00-2:00
Phone: (212) 854-8345
Email: se53@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Teaching of English, Ibaraki University
MA: Japanese Pedagogy, University of Iowa

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1001 Introductory Japanese A
JPNS UN2201 Second Year Japanese I
JPNS UN2202 Second Year Japanese II
JPNS GU4017 Fourth Year Japanese I
JPNS GU4018 Fourth Year Japanese II

Research Interests

Japanese Pedagogy
Japanese Grammar

Shigeru Eguchi has taught all levels of Japanese at Columbia University. He is also the Administrative Director of the Summer MA Program in Japanese Pedagogy since 2006. He has over a dozen years of experience teaching Japanese at Columbia, and also taught at Middlebury College’s Summer Program in Japanese, and at the Hokkaido International Foundation. He has developed teaching lessons based on unusual and creative materials, including haiku and video projects. He is currently developing new textbooks for intermediate level (Routledge, 2011) with Dr. Fumiko Nazikian, and other colleagues.

Publications

Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course (Routledge, 2011; co-authors: Miharu Nittono, Fumiko Nazikian, Keiko Okamoto, Jisuk Park)
Schaum’s Outlines-Japanese Vocabulary(McGraw-Hill Company, 2000; co-author)
“Exploration through “Hiyaku”: Considering Authenticity of Context”, 17th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum (2011)