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Donald Keene

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SHINCHO PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF JAPANESE LITERATURE

Office: 507 Kent Hall
Phone: (212) 854-5036
Email: dk8@columbia.edu
Educational Background

BA: Columbia University (’42)
MA: Columbia University (’47)
PhD: Columbia University (’49)

Donald Keene received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, and his Litt. D. from Cambridge University in 1978. He is the recipient of the Kikuchi Kan Prize of the Society for the Advancement of Japanese Culture (1962); the Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class (1993) and Third Class (1975); the Japan Foundation Prize (1983); the Yomiuri Shimbun Prize (1985); the Shincho Grand Literary Prize (1985); the Tokyo Metropolitan Prize (1987); the Radio and Television Culture Prize (1993); and the Asahi Prize (1998). He has received honorary degrees from St. Andrew’s College (1990), Middlebury College (1995), Columbia University (1997), Tohoku University (1997), Waseda University (1998), Tokyo Gaikokugo Daigaku (1999), and Keiwa University (2000).

He was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Literary Prize for the best book of literary criticism in Japanese (awarded in 1985 for the original Japanese version of Travelers of a Hundred Ages) and he was awarded the Nihon Bungaku Taisho (Grand Prize of Japanese Literature) for the same work. In 1991 he received the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandorf Award, and in 1994 he won the Inoue Yasushi Prize. Professor Keene has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1976, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1986; and in 1990 he became an honorary member of the Japan Academy. He began teaching at Columbia University in 1955, and was named Columbia University Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in 1981 and University Professor in 1989; he is currently a University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus.

Professor Keene has published approximately 25 books in English, consisting of studies of Japanese literature and culture, translations of Japanese works of both classical and modern literature, and edited works including two anthologies of Japanese literature and the collection Twenty Plays of the No Theatre. His major publications include a four-volume history of Japanese literature. Professor Keene’s Japanese publications include approximately 30 books, some written originally in Japanese, others translated from English. The Japanese translation of his history of Japanese literature has appeared in 18 volumes. His biography of Emperor Meiji in two volumes was published in October 2001 by Shinchosha. The English text, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, was published by Columbia University Press in 2002.

Selected Publications

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 (Columbia, 2002)

Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (Henry Holt & Co, 1993)

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1984)

World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600–1867 (Henry Holt & Co, 1976)

The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720–1830 (Stanford, 1969, 2nd edition)

Major Plays of Chikamatsu (Columbia, 1961)

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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)

Robert P.W. Hymes

Robert Hymes

Carpentier Professor of Chinese History

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

Office hours: R 12-2:00PM, 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)