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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)

Andrew Plaks

Andrew Plaks

Associate Adjunct Professor

Email: ap3606@columbia.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Educational Background

AB: Princeton University (’67)
PhD: Princeton University (’73)

Research Interests

Chinese and Japanese Classical Literature

Selected Publications

Pu Andi Zixuanji (Collected Works of Andrew Plaks). Beijing: Sanlian shuju (2011)

“Zheng Xuan’s Commentary on the Zhouli,” in Statecraft and Classical Learning: the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian History, ed. Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern (Leiden: Brill, 2010).

“Why the Chinese Gods Don’t Suffer?,” in Studies in Chinese Language and Culture: Festschrift in Honor of Christoph Harbsmeier (2006).

“Xin as the Seat of the Emotions in Confucian Self-cultivation,” in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.113-25.

“Completeness and Partiality in Traditional Commentaries on Honglou meng,” Tamkang Review (XXXVI:1-2), Fall-Winter 2005. pp. 117-35

“Xin as the Seat of the Emotions in Confucian Self-cultivation,” in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.113-25.

The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean. London: Penguin Classics (2003)

Seunghee Back

Seunghee Back

ADJUNCT LECTURER IN KOREAN

Office: 402 Kent Hall
Office Hours: M W Th 11:25-12:25
Teaching Hours: M W Th 10:10-11:25
Phone: (212) 854-5144
Email: sb4079@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Sangmyung University (’02)
MA: Sangmyung University (’04)
PhD: Sangmyung University (’09)

Classes Taught

KORN GU4104 Fourth Year Korean I

Research Interests

Korean Textbook Development & Studying at the Korean Language and Culture Education

Seunghee Back received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Korean Language and Literature and B.A. in Korean Language Education and from Sangmyung University in Seoul, Korea.

She has taught Korean language courses at all levels from Beginner to Advanced at Sangmyung University since 2006. Dr. Back was also a core member in developing Korean Language textbooks for the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, and has contributed to the publication of several textbooks. Moreover, she was a co-researcher for the Korean curriculum and material development research report that helped overseas Koreans understand how to better teach Korean. Most recently, she joined Columbia Korean 4th year program as an instructor.

Selected Publications

Researcher for Standardized Tests for Korean Schools, The National Association for Korean Schools (2016)
(co-author), Korean Language and Korean Education II, Prunsasang (2012)

“The National Association for Korean Schools: Utilization of Korean Language Education Curriculum with the Weather Terms for Advanced level,” Journal of Korean-American Education Vol. 29 (2012)