Adjunct

Charles Woolley

woolleyCharles Woolley

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Office: TBA
Office Hours: TBA
Phone: TBA
Email: cew2131@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: University of Toronto (’07)
PhD: Columbia University (’16)

Research Interests

Early modern and modern Japanese literature and intellectual history; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century popular Japanese narrative fiction (gesaku); print culture, journalism, and the public sphere; travelogue, exoticism, and the fantastic; translation and adaptation; genre formation; comparative philology and language reform; media history and theory; narratology and rhetorical analysis.

Despite hailing from Upstate New York, Charles Woolley headed north to receive his B.A. in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto (2007), after the completion of which he was briefly repatriated before being granted the opportunity to research the development, establishment and institutionalization of the ‘family restaurant’ format within popular culinary culture in Japan under the auspices of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program (2007-2008). In 2008, he was admitted to Columbia’s Ph.D. program in Japanese Literature where he continues to explore his interests in the processes of trans-contextual translation and adaptation between the ‘West’ and Japan and their roles in the construction and elaboration of new linguistic and discursive idioms in the early twentieth century.

 

Yan Wang

Yan Wang

Adjunct Lecturer

Teaching Hours: M 4:10-6:00
Office Hours: M 2:30-4:00 (Kent Hall 406)
Phone: (201) 745-0565
Email: yw2993@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Peking University (’05)
MA: Seton Hall University (’02)
BA: University of International Business and Economics, Beijing (’89)

Classes Taught

East Asian GU4244 Chinese Internet Culture

Research Interests

Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies, Film Studies

Dr. Yan Wang specializes in Chinese popular culture and the literature of trauma and testimony. He published books on the Holocaust and the Cold War Film. He has also written on literary theory, as well as essays on film studies. He has taught in the USA and China as Professor of Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Selected Publications

Cinematic Representation of Urban Space (to be published soon by Beijing SDX Press)

Once Upon a Time in America: the Historical Films of Hollywood (Beijing: SDX Press, 2010)

After Auschwitz: The Holocaust Film Studies (Beijing: SDX Press, 2007)

Novelistic Temporality and Modernity (Beijing: Fltrp Press, 2007)

Konchog Tseten

Konchog Tseten

ADJUNCT LECTURER IN TIBETAN

Office: TBA
Office Hours: TBA
Phone: TBA
Email: kt2590@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Tibetan Medicine, Qinghai Tibetan Medical College
BA: Northwest Normal University

Classes Taught

TIBT UN1410 First Year Classical Tibetan I
TIBT UN1411 First Year Classical Tibetan II

Research Interests

Tibetan Language

Konchog Tseten is originally from Rebgong (Qinghai, PRC) where he earned his language teaching certificate at the Rebgong Prefecture Teacher Training School. He later earned a BA at Northwest Normal University and a Master’s Degree in Tibetan medicine from Qinghai Tibetan Medical College. He taught Tibetan language for two years at the Gendun Chophel Middle School and has assisted researchers and anthropologists in collecting and interpreting field materials in Amdo (Tibet). Since 2015 he has taught Classical Tibetan language at Columbia University. He is currently a student of eastern medicine at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, NYC.