Faculty

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: On leave in fall 2026
W 4:10–6:00pm & by appointment in spring 2027

Email:  lxia@barnard.edu

Educational Background

BA: Fudan University
MA: Fudan University
PhD: Princeton University

Classes Taught

FYSB BC1001 Cultural Memory
AHUM UN1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia
EAAS BC3840 Beyond the Great Wall: Nomadic Empires and China
EAAS GU4370 Literati Culture in Pre-Modern China
EAAS GR8383 Crossroads in Middle-Period China: Topics of Song-Jin-Yuan Literary Culture

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. She is currently a 2026 visiting fellow at the Ying-shih Yü International Center for History and the Chinese Humanities (YCHCH), National Taiwan University.

Selected Publications

“Teaching Sinitic Knowledge of the Universal Ruler in Jin-Yuan Court Lectures and Civil Education.” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 55 (2026): 54–102.

“To Build or Not to Build? Frontier Walls, Trenches, and Forts in Mid-Jin Politics, 1161–1208.” Co-authored with Johannes S. Lotze, Zhidong Zhang, and Gideon Shelach-Lavi. T’oung Pao 112 (2026): 163–214.

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

“Two Narratives of ‘Grand Peace’ in Northern Song Historiography and the Song Cultural Memory” (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)