Faculty

Eveline Washul

Eveline Washul

Adjunct Lecturer, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Office: 909B IAB
Office Hours: T 10:00-11:00
Email: esy2103@columbia.edu

Educational Background
PhD: Indiana University
MA: Columbia University
BA: University of Colorado, Boulder
Classes Taught
HSEA GU4017 Ethnographic Tibet
HSEA GU4813 Early Tibetan History and Its Relations with China
Research Interests

Historical geographies of Tibet; Tibetan genealogies; anthropology of space and place; urbanization on the Tibetan Plateau

Eveline Washul is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and Tibetan Studies from Indiana University in 2018. Her research methods combine ethnography with Tibetan historical sources from the 12th to 20th centuries. Her dissertation research studied how the particularities of Tibetan relationships to places shape their transition from rural to urban livelihoods in the late-socialist reform period in the People’s Republic of China. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the history of geographical regions in Tibet.

Selected Publications

“Tibetan Translocalities: Navigating Urban Opportunities and New Ways of Belonging in Tibetan Pastoral Communities in China.” October 2018. Critical Asian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2018.1520606

“Tracing the Chol kha gsum: Reexamining a Sa skya-Yuan Period Administrative Geography.” 2016. In “Ancient Currents, New Traditions: Papers Presented at the Fourth International Seminar of Young Tibetologists,” edited by Franz Xaver Erhard et al. Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, 37: 551-68. http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret_37_29.pdf

Zhirong Wang

Zhirong Wang

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 512 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MW 10:00-11:30
Phone: (212) 854-3594
Email: zw30@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Chinese Language, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA: Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN3003 Third-Year Chinese N I
CHNS UN3004 Third Year Chinese II
CHNS GU4019 History of the Chinese Language

Research Interests

Chinese Language
Chinese Historical Linguistics
Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language

Zhirong Wang joined Columbia University in 1996 and has taught courses including Elementary Chinese, Elementary Chinese for Advanced Beginners, Introductory Chinese, Intermediate Chinese, Advanced Chinese, Readings in Modern Chinese, and History of Chinese Language. She also serves as the EALAC Language Lecturer Coordinator.

Publications

Advanced Chinese for Humanities I: Renwentianxia人文天下 (Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 2016)
Advanced Chinese for HumanitiesII: Renwentianxia 人文天下 (Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 2016)
An Elementary Chinese Reader for Advanced Beginners I (Peking University Press, 2004)
An Elementary Chinese Reader for Advanced Beginners II (Peking University Press, 2005)
A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese 大学语文 (Simplified Characters Edition) (Columbia University Press, 2004; co-author)
DaxueYuwen: A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese (Columbia University Press, 2003; co-author)

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)