Faculty-Discipline

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)

Theodore Hughes

Theodore Hughes

Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities

Office: 618 Kent Hall
Office Hours: WR 3:00 pm-4:00pm
Phone: (212) 854-8545
Email: th2150@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: University of California, San Diego (’90)
MA: University of California, Los Angeles (’97)
PhD: University of California, Los Angeles (’02)

Classes Taught

EAAS 3215 Korean Literature and Film
EAAS 3217 Korean Popular Cinema
EAAS 4124 South Korean Film as History
EAAS 4160 Cultures in Colonial Korea

Research Interests

Visual culture, film, literature, cultural studies, history

Theodore Hughes received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His
research interests include visual culture, film, literature, and history. He works across
disciplines, with a particular interest in intermediality—the relations between visual and
verbal forms of cultural production. He is the author of Literature and Film in Cold War
South Korea: Freedom’s Frontier (Columbia University Press, 2012), which was named
a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and won the James B. Palais Book Prize of the
Association for Asian Studies for the best book in Korean studies in the year of its
publication. Co-edited works include Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film,
and Art (special issue of Journal of Korean Studies, 2015); and Rat Fire: Korean Stories
from the Japanese Empire (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013), a finalist for the Daesan
Literary Translation Prize. He is the translator of Panmunjom and Other Stories by Lee
Ho-Chul (EastBridge, 2004; reissued under EastBridge imprint at Camphor Press, 2017).
His next book, Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of War, is
forthcoming from Columbia University Press. He is currently working on a project that
approaches the South Korean mystery novel as a form of historiography.

Selected Publications

Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire (co-editor, Cornell, 2013)
Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom’s Frontier (Columbia, 2012)

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)