Naoko Sourial

ADJUNCT LECTURER IN JAPANESE

Teaching Hours: M Tu W Th 11:40 am -12:45 pm
Office Hours: W 1:30-2:30 pm
Phone: (516)608-8454
Email: nss2111@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Columbia University
BA: Nanzan University

Classes

JPNS UN1101 First Year Japanese I
JPNS UN1102 First Year Japanese II

Research Interests

Japanese Pedagogy, Use of Technology in Japanese Language Learning, Sociolinguistics

Naoko Sourial started teaching at Columbia University in Spring 2017. Before teaching at Columba, she has taught Japanese at New York University and Baruch College, City University of New York. She has developed curriculum and teaching lessons for Business Japanese for intermediate and advanced level students at Baruch. She also has implemented various unique and creative language learning projects while teaching at NYU and Baruch, including video projects and virtual exchange blog projects in collaboration with other universities.

Selected Publications

“Connecting “Senpai” and “Kohai” through a blog-based Junior Sensei Project,” Asia Pacific Virtual Exchange Association (2017)

“Efforts in Improving Learner’s Welfare: Effects of repetitive practice by exchanging text messages via cell phones,” The 2016 Symposium on Japanese Language Education; The 20th Japanese Language Symposium in Europe; The 5th conference on Japanese Linguistics and Language Teaching (2016)

“A Collaborative Video Project in Cross-Institutional Settings ”, The 20^th Annual Meeting of Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum (2013)

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: yw2293@columbia.edu
 
 

Educational Background

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

Classes

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)