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Lingjun Hu

Lingjun Hu

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 508 Kent Hall
Office Hours: W, Th 2:20-3:20pm
Phone: (212) 854-2311
Email: lh2318@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Cognitive Studies of Education, Teacher’s College, Columbia University
MA: Chinese Language Pedagogy, Ohio State University (2003)
BA: English Language and Literature, Xi’an Foreign Language University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1102 First Year Chinese II
CHNS UN3003 Third Year Chinese I
CHNS UN3004 Third Year Chinese II

Research Interests

Second Language Acquisition
Chinese Language Pedagogy

Lingjun Hu started teaching Chinese in 2000 and joined Columbia faculty in 2006, and has taught Chinese at all levels. She has also taught for the Columbia and Princeton summer programs in Beijing. She has developed teaching materials for Chinese programs and is in charge of the language placement test and the language certificate. She is the co-author of two textbooks for Business Chinese.

Publications

Winning Strategies: Learning Business Chinese. 商务中文案例教程（听说卷 (Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press, in press; lead author)
Excellence in Business Chinese– Practical application 卓越汉语公司实战篇 (Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press, 2011; co-author)
Teach Chinese in the United States (Beijing University Press, in press; co-author)

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Lauran R. Hartley

Lauran Hartley

ADJUNCT LECTURER IN TIBETAN LITERATURE

Office:  300 Kent Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: (212)854-9875
Email: lh2112@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Northwestern University (’85)
MA: Indiana University (’98)
PhD: Indiana University (’03)

Classes Taught

EAAS GU4553 Survey of Tibetan Literature

Research Interests

Tibetan Literature and Cultural Production, Translation Studies

Lauran Hartley is Tibetan Studies Librarian for the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University and occasionally serves as Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan Literature for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She has also taught courses on Tibetan literature and religion at Indiana and Rutgers universities. In addition to co-editing the book Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Duke University Press, 2008) and serving as Inner Asian Book Review Editor for the Journal of Asian Studies, she has also published several literary translations and articles on Tibetan intellectual history. Her current research focuses on literary production and discourse from the eighteenth century to present.

Selected Publications

Co-editor, Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Duke University Press, 2008)

“The Advent of Modern Tibetan Free-Verse Poetry in the Tibetan Language” in A New Literary History of Modern China (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017)

“Self as a faithful public servant: The autobiography of Mdo mkhar ba Tshe ring dbang rgyal (1697–1763)” in Mapping the Modern in Tibet. Proceedings of the 11th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2006 (Andiast, Switzerland: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH, 2011)

“Ascendancy of the Term rtsom-rig [literature] in Tibetan Literary Discourse” in Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studies. Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2003 (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007)

“Tibetan Publishing in the Early Post-Mao Period.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 15 (2005)

 

Robert Harrist

Robert E. Harrist Jr.

JANE AND LEOPOLD SWERGOLD PROFESSOR OF CHINESE ART HISTORY

Office: 933 Schermerhorn Hall
Office Hours: By appointment only
Phone: (212) 854-8532
Email: reh23@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BS: Indiana University (’75)
MA: Columbia University (’80)
PhD: Princeton University (’89)

Robert E. Harrist Jr. has published books and articles on Chinese painting, calligraphy, and gardens, as well as on topics such as replicas in Chinese art, clothing in 20th-century China, and contemporary artists such as Xu Bing. His most recent book, The Landscape of Words, which studies the role of language in shaping perceptions of the natural world, was awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize in 2010.

Selected Publications

The Landscape of Words (Washington, 2008)

Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin, (Princeton, 1998)

Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art (Art Media Resources, 1997)