Faculty

Jungwon Kim

JWKIMJungwon Kim

King Sejong Associate Professor of Korean Studies

Office: 402 Kent hall
Office Hours: TBD
Email: jk3638@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Harvard University (’01)
PhD: Harvard University (’07)

Classes Taught

ASCE UN1363 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Korea
EAAS UN3412 Conflict & Culture in Korean History
HSEA GR9860 Korean Historical Texts

Research Interests

Early Modern Korean History; Legal History; Women, Gender, Family, and Women’s Writing in Korea

Jungwon Kim is the King Sejong Assistant Professor of Korean Studies. She specializes in gender, family, and legal history of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910). Her broad research interests include women’s writings, ritual and expression of emotions, and the use of legal archives. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ (2012-13) before joining the department in 2013.

Selected Publications

Families in Trials: Local Courts and Legal Culture in Late Chosŏn Korea (forthcoming)

Wrongful Death: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth Century Korea (with Sun Joo Kim, Washington, 2014)

“You Must Avenge On My Behalf: Widow Chastity and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Korea”, Gender and History (2014)

Ji-Young Jung

Ji-Young Jung

Senior Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502-E Kent Hall
Office Hours: M/R 1:10-2:10 PM
Email: jj277@columbia.edu

Educational Background

Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2009)
Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2002)
M.A. in TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University (2001)
B.A. in French Language and Literature, Kyungpook National University (1996)

Classes Taught

Introductory Korean
First Year Korean
Accelerated Korean
Third Year Korean

Research Interests

Discourse Analysis
Second Language Acquisition
Heritage Language Education

Ji-Young Jung has an eighteen-year teaching career as a foreign language educator, offering instruction across various proficiency levels of the Korean language. Her teaching repertoire spans diverse courses, including Korean for Heritage Speakers, language-and-content courses like Current Korean Media, and Advanced Readings in Korean, where she delves into contemporary Korean literature. Before her appointment to the EALAC faculty in 2018, Ji-Young Jung shared her expertise at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is a co-author of Integrated Korean: Accelerated I and II for the KLEAR Korean Textbook Series (University of Hawai‘i Press), the most widely used Korean language textbook series in North America. Ji-Young Jung’s contributions extend to her role on the task force responsible for creating the College Korean Curriculum Inspired by the National Standards for Korean in 2015. In addition, Ji-Young Jung holds full certifications as a tester for both ACTFL’s OPI, a language proficiency assessment tool widely utilized in academic and commercial contexts, and ILR OPI, a critical assessment instrument employed by the U.S. government and military.

Selected Publications

Korean for Specific Purposes. In A. S. Byon and D. O. Pyun (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Korean as a Second Language (pp. 194-221) (Routledge, 2022)

Integrated Korean: Accelerated 1 & Accelerated 2 (co-author, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020 & 2021)

Literacies and Multiliteracies in Korean Language Learning and Teaching. In Y. Y. Cho (Ed.) Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Theories and Practices (pp. 117-146). (co-author, Routledge, 2021).

Citizen sociolinguistics: Making connections in the foreign language classroom. Korean Language in America, 22(1), 1-24 (co-author, 2018)

Tianqi Jiang

 

Tianqi Jiang

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 508 Kent Hall
Office hours: MW 12:00pm-1:30pm
Email: tj2342@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture
University
MA: MTCSOL, Beijing Language and Culture University
BA: English Language and Literature, Northwest University of Politics and Law

Classes Taught

First Year Chinese N I
First Year Chinese N II
First Year Chinese W I
First Year Chinese W Ii
Legal Chinese

Research Interests

Legal Chinese
Chinese for Specific Purposes
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Tianqi Jiang earned her Ph.D in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Beijing
Language and Culture University. Her dissertation, “A Linguistic Study of Chinese
Business Contracts” investigates the discourse and texts of Chinese business
contracts and attempts to reveal their linguistic features. Prior to joining Columbia
in 2016, she taught Chinese in all levels at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
(Milan, Italy), and Columbia Summer Program in Beijing. Her research interests
also include East Asian art history.