Adjunct

Hey-Ryoun Hong

Hey-Ryoun Hong

Adjunct Lecturer in Korean

Email: hh2254@tc.columbia.edu

Educational Background
BA: Applied Linguistics, University of Stonybrook (‘03)
MA: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College at Columbia University (‘11)
MA: TESOL K-12: Teachers College at Columbia University (‘17)
Classes Taught

KORN UN1101 First-Year Korean I
KORN UN1102 First-Year Korean II

Research Interests

Second Language Acquisition
Classroom Instructions
Language Pedagogy
Task-based Language Teaching

Hey-Ryoun Hong has been teaching since 2004. She taught English as a second/foreign language in the K-12 setting as well as for college and adult levels. Also, she has been teaching Korean at private organizations.

Filed Under: Adjunct

Leta Hong Fincher

Leta Hong Fincher

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Office Hours: By appointment only
Email: lh2793@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Harvard University
MA: Stanford University
PhD: Tsinghua University

Research Interests

Leta Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Dissent Magazine and others on the subject of women and feminism in China. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her China reporting.

Leta’s first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed 2014), was named one of the top 5 China books of 2014 by the Asia Society’s ChinaFile, one of the best foreign policy books in 2014 by FP Interrupted and one of the best Asian books of 2014 by Asia House. In 2018, Leftover Women was named on the New York Times list of recommended books on China. Her second book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018), was named one of the best books of 2018 by Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Foreign Policy Interrupted, Bitch Media and Autostraddle.

http://www.letahongfincher.com

Named by the Telegraph as an “awesome woman to follow on Twitter,” you may follow Dr. Hong Fincher @letahong.

Selected Publications

“What’s #MeToo in China All About?” in The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US-China Relations (Harvard University Press, 2022)

Author, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018)

Author, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed 2014)

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Filed Under: Adjunct, Tibet

Karl Debreczeny

Karl Debreczeny

Adjunct Lecturer of Tibetan Art

Office: 401 Kent Hall
Office Hours: M 5-6 PM
Email: kdebreczeny@rubinmuseum.org

Educational Background

PhD: University of Chicago (Art History)
MA: Indiana University (Central Eurasian Studies)
MA: Indiana University (Art History)
BA: Oberlin College (East Asian Studies)

Classes Taught

HSEA GU4815 Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism

Research Interests

Exchanges between Tibetan and Chinese artistic traditions; Tibetan Art; Sino-Tibetan relations;
Karl Debreczeny is Senior Curator, Collections and Research, at the Rubin Museum of Art, New
York, where he has worked since 2006. He completed a Double-Masters in Art History and
Tibetan Studies at Indiana University (1994); and his PhD in Art History at the University of
Chicago (2007). He was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow to China (2003–2004) and a National Gallery
of Art CASVA Ittleson Fellow (2004–2006). His has conducted field research in various
locations along the Sino-Tibetan border.

Selected Publications

Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism. (ed.) NY: Rubin Museum of Art, 2019.

The Tenth Karmapa and Tibet’s Turbulent 17th Century. (ed. with Gray Tuttle) Serindia
Publications, 2016.

The All-Knowing Buddha: A Secret Guide (with Elena Pakhoutova, Christian Luczanits, and Jan
van Alphen). Antwerp: Museum Aan de Stroom. MAS: 2014.

Situ Panchen: Creation and Cultural Engagement in 18th-Century Tibet. (ed.) Guest Editor of a
special issue of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies no. 7 (August
2013). http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#!jiats=/current/

The Black Hat Eccentric: Artistic Visions of the Tenth Karmapa NY: Rubin Museum of Art,
2012.

“Wutaishan: Pilgrimage to Five Peak Mountain” Journal of the International Association of
Tibetan Studies, Issue 6 (Dec 2011): 1-133. http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#!jiats=/06/debreczeny/

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