Faculty

Robert Harrist

Robert E. Harrist Jr.

Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor Emeritus of Chinese Art History
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)

Shigeru Eguchi

Shigeru Eguchi

Senior Lecturer in Japanese

Office: 518 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 1:00-2:00
Phone: (212) 854-8345
Email: se53@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Teaching of English, Ibaraki University
MA: Japanese Pedagogy, University of Iowa

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1001 Introductory Japanese A
JPNS UN2201 Second Year Japanese I
JPNS UN2202 Second Year Japanese II
JPNS GU4017 Fourth Year Japanese I
JPNS GU4018 Fourth Year Japanese II

Research Interests

Japanese Pedagogy
Japanese Grammar

Shigeru Eguchi has taught all levels of Japanese at Columbia University. He is also the Administrative Director of the Summer MA Program in Japanese Pedagogy since 2006. He has over a dozen years of experience teaching Japanese at Columbia, and also taught at Middlebury College’s Summer Program in Japanese, and at the Hokkaido International Foundation. He has developed teaching lessons based on unusual and creative materials, including haiku and video projects. He is currently developing new textbooks for intermediate level (Routledge, 2011) with Dr. Fumiko Nazikian, and other colleagues.

Publications

Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course (Routledge, 2011; co-authors: Miharu Nittono, Fumiko Nazikian, Keiko Okamoto, Jisuk Park)
Schaum’s Outlines-Japanese Vocabulary(McGraw-Hill Company, 2000; co-author)
“Exploration through “Hiyaku”: Considering Authenticity of Context”, 17th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum (2011)

Michael Como

Michael Como

Tōshū Fukami Associate Professor of Shinto Studies

Office: 307 80 Claremont
Office Hours: F 9:00-10:00am and by appointment
Phone: (212) 854-4144
Email: mc2575@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Harvard University (’85)
PhD: Stanford University (’00)

Classes Taught

AHUM UN1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia
RELI UN2308 East Asian Buddhism
EARL 9335 Graduate Seminar in Japanese Religion

Research Interests

Transmission and diffusion of rituals and deities to Japan, local religious traditions, urbanization and theological innovation

Michael Como’s recent research has focused on the religious history of the Japanese islands from the Asuka through the early Heian periods, with a particular focus upon the Chinese and Korean deities, rites and technological systems that were transmitted to the Japanese islands during this time. He is the author of several articles on the ritual and political consequences of the introduction of literacy, sericulture and horse-culture from the Asian sub-continent into ancient Japan. He is currently working on a new monograph that focuses upon urbanization and the materiality of performance and interpretation in Japanese religion in the eighth and ninth centuries.

Selected Publications

Medieval Shintō (co-editor with Bernard Faure and Iyanaga Nobumi, 2010)

Weaving and Binding: Immigrant Gods and Female Immortals in Ancient Japan (University of Hawaii, 2009)

Shōtoku: Ethnicity, Ritual and Violence in the Formation of Japanese Buddhism (Oxford University, 2008)