Faculty

Ji-Young Jung

Ji-Young Jung

Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502E Kent Hall
Office Hours: T/R 12-1 PM
Email: jj277@columbia.edu

Educational Background

EdD: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2009)
EdM: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2002)
MA: TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University (2001)

Classes Taught

KORN UN1101 First Year Korean I Section 002
KORN UN3005 Third Year Korean I Section 002

Research Interests

Foreign Language Pedagogy
Intercultural Pragmatics
Discourse Analysis
Heritage Language Teaching and Learning

Ji-Young Jung has taught all levels of Korean for the last thirteen years, including Korean for Heritage Speakers and language-and-content courses such as Current Korean Media and Advanced Readings in Korean (using contemporary Korean literature). Prior to coming to Columbia in 2018, she taught at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and the University of Pennsylvania. She co-authored Integrated Korean: Accelerated I and II for the KLEAR Korean Textbook Series (University of Hawai‘i Press). She served on the task force that created College Korean Curriculum Inspired by National Standards for Korean (2015). She is a certified tester of ACTFL’s OPI (used in academic settings) and ILR OPI (used by the U.S. government).

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: TR 10:30am-12:30pm
For Certificate Pick up: MTWR 4:00-5:00
Phone: (212) 854-5038
Email: tj2342@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University (2019)
MA: Teaching Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language, Beijing Language and Culture University (2013)
BA: Law and Forensic Linguistics in English, Northwestern University of Politics and Law (2010)

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese N
CHNS UN1111 First Year Chinese W

Research Interests

Language for Specific Purposes
Business Chinese
Forensic Linguistics

Tianqi Jiang was born and raised in Beijing, China. She began teaching Chinese language at Columbia in 2016. She has taught Chinese in all levels at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy) and Columbia University Summer Language Program in Beijing.

Publications

Parliamo Cinese in Italia

Robert P.W. Hymes

Robert Hymes

Carpentier Professor of Chinese History

Office: 504 Kent
Phone: (212) 854-2580
Email: rph2@columbia.edu

Office hours: W 4:10-6:10, Please make an appointment in advance by email.

Educational Background

BA: Columbia College (’72)
MA: University of Pennsylvania (’75)
PhD: University of Pennsylvania (’79)

Classes Taught

EAAS UN3990 Approaches to East Asian Studies
HSEA GU4893 The Family in Chinese History
HSEA GR8883 Topics in the Middle Period of Chinese History

Research Interests

Middle-Period China, Social and Cultural History, Social Networks, Family and Kinship

Robert Hymes’ work focuses on the social and cultural history of middle period and early modern China, drawing questions and sometimes data from cultural anthropology as well as history, and using the methods of the local historian to study elite culture, family and kinship, medicine, religion, gender, and (currently) the changing role and form of Chinese social networks from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries. His monographs Statesmen and Gentlemen and Way and Byway won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book on pre-1900 China in their years of publication.

Selected Publications

“Thoughts on the Problem of Historical Comparison between Europe and China,” in Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800–1600 (Oxford, forthcoming 2018)

Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China (University of California, 2002)

Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern and Southern Sung (Cambridge, 1987)