Lecturer

Naoko Sourial

Naoko Sourial

Lecturer in Japanese

Office: 520 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MR 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Email: nns2111@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Japanese Pedagogy, Columbia University
BA: British and American Studies, Nanzan Universtiy

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1101 First Year Japanese I
JPNS UN1102 First Year Japanese II
JPNS UN1001 Introductory Japanese A & B
JPNS UN2201 Second Year Japanese II

Research Interests

Language Pedagogy

Content-Based Instruction

Project-Based Learning

Naoko Sourial majored in British and American Studies and American Philosophy at Nanzan University (Nagoya, Japan). She received her MA in Japanese Pedagogy at Columbia University. Ms. Sourial has many years of experience teaching Japanese. She has taught at Columbia University, The New School, NYU, and Baruch College (CUNY). She has developed and designed curriculum for advanced-level content courses such as Japanese Pop Culture at The New School.

Recent Publications

“Language Learning through Fashion – NYC as a Language Classroom” (The Third Annual NYU Conference on Second Language Pedagogy, Teaching Literacy and the Multiliteracies Framework, April 2021)

“Learning “Japanese Pop Culture” with Self-Taught Learners – Teacher’s Roles in Curriculum Design of Japanese Advanced-level Courses” (American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), March 2020, presented as the pedagogy panel with a panel title, “What Is Happening in Japanese Classes Now with Increasing Numbers of Self-Taught Learners?)

 “Content-Based Instruction Efforts to Develop Japanese Learners’ Critical Awareness toward Social Justice” (2019 Foreign Language Education Symposium (FLEDS), Monterey, CA,  2019)

“Connecting and Reflecting through Fashion: Advanced Japanese Curriculum Design using Anthropological and Sociological Approach” (The 25th Princeton Pedagogy Forum Proceedings, 2019)

Yike Li

Yike Li

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 506 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MT 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Phone: (212) 854-8545
Email: yl4707@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Chinese Philology, Beijing Language and Culture University
BA: English, Beijing Language and Culture University

Classes Taught

Chinese UN1115 ACCELERATED FIRST YEAR CHINESE (W)
Chinese UN1101 FIRST YEAR CHINESE I
Chinese UN1102 FIRST YEAR CHINESE II
Chinese UN2201 SECOND YEAR CHINESE N I
Chinese UN2202 SECOND YEAR CHINESE N II

Research Interests

Pedagogical Grammar
Chinese Phonetics
Development of Audio-Visual Materials

Yike Li was appointed as a Chinese Language Lecturer in the fall of 2020. Prior to joining Columbia University, he taught at Princeton University and Harvard University for six years. He has teaching experiences at different summer language programs, such as Princeton in Beijing and Harvard Beijing Academy. He was awarded the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching and was recognized for excellence in teaching for six consecutive semesters at Harvard. He received funding from the Princeton Center for Language Study and the Department of East Asian Studies of Princeton University to make thirty 1- to 3-minute videos for use as supplementary materials for FIRST STEP – An Elementary Reader for Modern Chinese (Chih-p’ing Chou, Jing Wang and Jun Lei 2014). This effort involved scriptwriting, directing, recording, editing and producing.

Publications

Development of Audio-Visual Materials for First-Year CSL Classes, publication pending

Ye Yuan

Ye Yuan

MA Program Director, Lecturer in Discipline

Office Hours: T 2:00 PM-3:00 PM/ R 11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Office: 502G Kent Hall
Email: yy2402@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Columbia University
MA: Columbia University
BA: East China Normal University

Classes Taught

ASCE UN1361 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Japan
AHUM UN1400: Colloquium on Major Texts
EAAS UN3123 Women in Early Modern China and Japan
EAAS GU4342 Pre-1900 Japanese Literature
EAAS GR6400 Critical Approaches to East Asian Studies

Research Interests

Ye Yuan’s research focuses on Sinitic literature and culture in Japanese history; it investigates the intersection and interaction of Sinitic literature and vernacular literatures. Her current project, based on her dissertation “Contemporary Spoken Chinese in Eighteenth-Century Japan: Language Learning, Fiction Writing, and Vocality,” explores the learning of contemporary spoken Chinese and writing in colloquial Chinese in early modern Japan. Seeking to understand how colloquial Chinese language and literature were conceptualized and practiced in early modern East Asia—a region with shared texts and cultures based on literary Sinitic, this project is an inquiry into the pre-1900 East Asian understanding of “language” before the Western, phonocentric view became dominant. This project also intends to posit the eighteenth-century studies of contemporary Chinese language and literature in the history of Japanese Sinitic studies.

Ye Yuan’s next project continually takes Sinitic literature as a nexus that brings political, intellectual, social, and cultural factors together, to further deepen the understanding of Sinitic literature as the field that connects different locales and transcends the boundary of pre-modern and modern. This project expands horizontally to include the pre-1900 communications among East Asian countries and the function and meaning of Sinitic literature in such contacts and contests.

Selected Publications

“Speaking the Sinitic: Translation and ‘Chinese Language’ in Eighteenth-Century Japan” (forthcoming)

“Vernacular Story in and as Archives: (Re)Making Xingshi yan Stories in Early Modern China and Korea.” Journal of Korean Studies 24, no. 2 (October 2019): 373–392.

“Faithful Women in Jin Ping Mei: Literary Borrowing, Adaptation, and Reinterpretation.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) 40 (December 2018): 33–50.