Faculty-Discipline

Hyunkyu Yi

Hyunkyu Yi

Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502-C Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 4:10 PM-5:10 PM
Phone: (212) 854-5144
Email: hy122@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: East Asian History, Yonsei University (1987)
BA: History, Yonsei University (1982)

Classes Taught

KORN UN1001 Introductory Korean A
KORN UN1002 Introductory Korean B
KORN UN3005 Third-Year Korean N I
KORN GU4106 Fourth Year Korean II
KORN GR8010 Advanced Korean in Mixed Script

Research Interests

Korean Language Pedagogy

HyunKyu Yi taught Korean at Korean Language Institute in Yonsei University from 1988 to 1996. Hyunkyu Yi joined Columbia faculty in 1996.

Online publications

Korean for Overseas Koreans (English) (National Institute for International Education, Ministry of Education of Republic of Korea, 2017; co-author)
Standardized Tests for Korean Schools (the National Association for Korean Schools, 2016)
Korean 5 (Ministry of Education Science and Technology, 2011; co-author)
Korean 6 (Ministry of Education Science and Technology, 2011; co-author)
Korean Language curriculum for Korean School (NAKSNEC –The National Association for Korean School s Northeast Chapter, 2011; co-author)
Korean Language II (Second edition) (Korea Culture Research Inc., 2010; co-author)
Korean Language I – Easy to learn – (Third edition) (Korea Culture Research Inc., 2008; co-author)
“Teaching Korean Grammar” (Bulletin of the National Association for Korean Schools (NAKS), 2006)
Korean Language I – Easy to learn – (Second edition) (Korea Culture Research Inc., 2004; co-author)
Korean Language II (Korean Language Center of New York, 2002)
“Teaching of Speaking Korean Language in the Classroom”, (Bulletin of the National Association for Korean School (NAKS), 2001)
Korean Language I – Easy to learn – (Korean Language Center of New York, 2000; co-author)
Korean Language I (CD-ROM) (Korean Language Center of New York, 2000)
“How to Teach Speaking” (Bulletin of the National Association for Korean School (NAKS), 2000)

Ling Yan

Ling Yan

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 512 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 11:15am-12:45pm
Phone: (212) 854-3594
Email: ly2131@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Linguistics, University of Kansas (2005)
MA: Applied Linguistics, Northwestern Polytechnical University (1996)
BA: British Literature, Northwest University (1986)

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese I
CHNS UN1102 First Year Chinese II
CHNS GU4015 Fourth Year Chinese I
CHNS GU4016 Fourth Year Chinese II

Research Interests

Linguistics
Second Language Acquisition
Chinese Teaching Pedagogy and Culture
Syntax and Prosodic-Syntax

Ling Yan started teaching Chinese in 1999 and has taught Chinese at all levels. She joined the Columbia faculty in 2004. In addition to teaching, she also serves as the Coordinator of Elementary Chinese. Before joining Columbia, she played an active role as a summer instructor at the University of Kansas.

Publications

Approaching China Textbook (1st Year) (Pekin University Press, 2015)
“Yuti (Register-Stylistic) Grammar and Textbook Compiling” (Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 2013; co-author)
“An Analysis of the Chinese Prosodic Words in Rewritten Chinese” (Proceedings of The 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) and 22th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), 2010)
201 Chinese Verbs (2nd edition) (Barrons Educational Series, Inc., 2007; co-author)
“A Statistic Analysis of VP Prosody in Modern Chinese Writing” (Harvard University Proceedings on New Trend of Chinese Written Language Teaching and Studies, 2005; co-author)
“The Syntax of the Ba-constructions” (Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004)

Lili Xia

Lili Xia

Assistant Professor of Premodern Chinese Literature, Barnard College

Office:  317 Milbank Hall, Barnard College
Office Hours: T 4:10–6:00pm & by appointment

Email:  lxia@barnard.edu

Educational Background

BA: Fudan University

MA: Fudan University

PhD: Princeton University

Classes Taught

AHUM UN1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia

Research Interests

Lili Xia is a scholar of premodern Chinese literature. Her broader research interests include Sino-steppe interactions, cultural memory, print and book culture, intermediality, and digital humanities.

She is now working on her book project titled “North against South in Middle Period China: Classical Poetry and Literati Culture under Jurchen Jin Rule (1115–1234).” By demonstrating a rival narrative of claiming China in the Sino-Jurchen North against the cultural orthodoxy conceptualized in the Han Chinese-ruled South, the book illustrates the burgeoning literati culture under Jurchen rule, and fleshes out the Jin poetic production in particular. While making full use of Jin literary texts, this book is further enriched by art history and material culture, as well as digital tools of social network and geographic analysis to better represent Jin literati culture on the whole. Her research aims to reveal the heterotopia and heteroglossia of China as an intersubjective, transcultural, and border-crossing space in the Middle Period (800–1400 CE).

Before coming to Barnard, she received her B.A. and M.A. in Classical Chinese Literature at Fudan University, and her Ph.D. in East Asian Studies at Princeton University. She was the 2023–24 Louis Frieberg Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Selected Publications

“Qiuchi as Heterotopia: The Other Space for Su Shi.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 142.1 (2022): 93–119.

Review of Stephen Owen, All Mine! Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China. The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 85.2 (2022): 325–27.

“Two Narratives of ‘Grand Peace’ in Northern Song Historiography and Cultural Memory of Song Contemporaries” (北宋仁、徽兩朝的“太平敍事”與宋人文化記憶). Zhonghua wenshi luncong (Journal of Chinese Literature and History) 139 (2020): 219–40. (in Chinese)