Lecturer

Ji-Young Jung

Ji-Young Jung

Senior Lecturer in Korean, Director of the Korean Language Program

Office: 502-D Kent Hall
Office Hours: M/W 1:00-2:00 PM
Email: jj277@columbia.edu

Educational Background

Ed.D. Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
Ed.M. Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
M.A. TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University

Classes Taught

Introductory Korean
First Year Korean
Accelerated Korean for Heritage Speakers
Third Year Korean
Fourth Year Korean

Research Interests

Intercultural Pragmatics
Second Language Acquisition
Heritage Language Education

Ji-Young Jung joined EALAC in 2018. Her teaching repertoire spans a wide range of courses, including Korean for Heritage Speakers and language-and-content courses such as Current Korean Media and Advanced Readings in Korean. Before coming to Columbia, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. She is a co-author of Integrated Korean: Accelerated I and II and High Advanced I and II, part of the KLEAR Korean Textbook Series (University of Hawai‘i Press), the most widely used Korean language textbook series in North America. Her contributions also include serving on the task force that developed the College Korean Curriculum Inspired by the National Standards for Korean in 2015. In addition, Ji-Young Jung holds full certification as a tester for both ACTFL’s OPI, a widely used language proficiency assessment tool in academic and professional contexts, and the ILR OPI, an assessment instrument used by the U.S. government and military.

Selected Publications

Integrated Korean: High Advanced 1 & High Advanced 2 (co-author, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2025)

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)

Lingjun Hu

Lingjun Hu

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 508 Kent Hall
Office Hours: T & W 3:45-4:20pm; Th 3:45-4:45pm
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)

Filed Under: Adjunct, Lecturer, Tibet

Lauran R. Hartley

Lauran Hartley

Adjunct Assistant Professor in Tibetan Literature;
Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Office:  608 Kent Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30am; Thursdays, 1-2pm; and by apppointment
Phone: (212)853-8795
Email: lh2112@columbia.edu

Educational Background

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

Classes Taught

ASCE UN1365  Introduction to Asian Civilization: Tibet
EAAS GU4553  Survey of Tibetan Literature
EAAS GU4565  Tibet in the World: Cultural Production and Social Change
EAAS GU4615  Tibetan Rivers and Roads: Infrastructure, Environment, and Urban Lives

Research Interests

Tibetan Literature and Cultural Production, Translation Studies, Social Theory

Lauran Hartley is an Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. 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 research interests include literary production and discourse from the eighteenth century to present, as well as contemporary cultural production and society. From 2007-2021,  she served as Tibetan Studies Librarian for the C.V. Starr East Asian Library and taught previously at Rutgers University and Indiana University. From 2019-2022, Hartley served on the advisory board of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, and for more than six years on the Board of Directors of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center.

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)

 

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