Adjunct

Kana Toda Pierce

Kana Toda Pierce

Adjunct Lecturer in Japanese

Email: ktp2111@columbia.edu
Office Hours: By appointment

Educational Background

M.A. in Japanese Pedagogy, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2019
B.A. in British and American Literature, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, 2003

Research Interests

Japanese Language Pedagogy
Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)

Kana Toda Pierce holds a B.A. from Meiji University and an M.A. in Japanese Pedagogy from Columbia University. She taught English at junior and senior high schools in Nagasaki, Japan, for eight years. She also worked as a Japanese-English translator for eight years, translating anime-, manga-, and mobile game-related content. She has taught Japanese at Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and as a substitute lecturer at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Princeton University. She currently teaches Japanese at Japan Society and Princeton Community Japanese Language School.

Yang Hwan Choi

Yang Hwan Choi

Adjunct Lecturer in Korean
Educational Background

EdD: International Educational Development, Teachers College, Columbia University (2021)
MA: Sociology, Queens College, City University of New York (2012)
MA: Korean Language and Literature, Kyung Hee University (2009)
BA: Korean Language and Literature / Korean Language Education, Kyung Hee University (2007)

Classes Taught

KORN UN1101 First-Year Korean I

Research Interests

Korean Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Adult Learning and Acculturation, Korean Popular Culture and Transnational Media.

Yang Hwan Choi has taught Korean language and East Asian cultural studies at the university level for over a decade, including current appointments as a Teaching Professor at DePaul University and adjunct positions at New York University, SUNY New Paltz, and Ramapo College. He holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and his research examines the transnational circulation of Korean popular culture through the lens of adult and transformative learning theory.

Chun Chen

Chun Chen

Adjunct Lecturer in Chinese

Email: cc5502@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
BA: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Jinan University

Bio
Chun Chen has been teaching Mandarin Chinese to learners of diverse ages and proficiency levels in the United States and China since 2015. She taught in Columbia University’s summer language programs in Beijing in 2015 and 2016 and has since taught Chinese in university, study-abroad, and immersion settings. She joined Columbia University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures as an Adjunct Lecturer in Fall 2025. She is also the founder and director of Moxie Mandarin, a Mandarin education program in New York City.