Konchog Tseten

Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan

Email: kt2590@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Tibetan Medicine, Qinghai Tibetan Medical College
BA: Northwest Normal University

Classes Taught

TIBT UN1410 First Year Classical Tibetan I
TIBT UN1411 First Year Classical Tibetan II

Research Interests

Tibetan Language

Konchog Tseten is originally from Rebgong (Qinghai, PRC) where he earned his language teaching certificate at the Rebgong Prefecture Teacher Training School. He later earned a BA at Northwest Normal University and a Master’s Degree in Tibetan medicine from Qinghai Tibetan Medical College. He taught Tibetan language for two years at the Gendun Chophel Middle School and has assisted researchers and anthropologists in collecting and interpreting field materials in Amdo (Tibet). Since 2015 he has taught Classical Tibetan language at Columbia University. He is currently a student of eastern medicine at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, NYC.

Toshiko Omori

ADJUNCT LECTURER IN JAPANESE

Office: Kent 520
Office hours: R 4:00 – 5:00
Teaching hours: TR 5:40 – 6:45
Phone: (212) 854-5500
Email: to2274@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Teaching and Learning, New York University (’99)
BA: Seisen Women’s University  (’79)

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1001 Introductory Japanese A
JPNS UN1002 Introductory Japanese B

Research Interests

Japanese Language Pedagogy
Second Language Acquisition

Toshiko Omori has much experience teaching English in Japan and teaching Japanese in the United States and is currently an adjunct Japanese language instructor at Columbia University, New York University, and The New School. She is interested in developing classroom activities at the collegiate level.

So-Rim Lee

Academy of Korean Studies Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Lecturer at the Center for Korean Research

Office: 909A IAB
Office Hours: R 2:30-4:00
Email: sl2179@columbia.edu

Educational Background

Classes Taught

EAAS UN3217 Korean Popular Cinema
EAAS UN 3207 Lights, Camera, Action: The Visual Culture of K-pop

Research Interests

Contemporary performance and popular culture in Korea, critical race and gender theories, performance studies and visual culture, film and global media studies, transnational East Asia

So-Rim Lee is the 2018-19 Center for Korean Research-Academy of Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. Lee researches on contemporary popular culture’s complex embodiments of neoliberalism through performance studies and visual culture, with a focus on South Korea. Lee’s doctoral dissertation, “Performing the Self: Cosmetic Surgery and the Political Economy of Beauty in Korea,” weds historiography, cultural studies, media studies, and performance analysis to construe cosmetic surgery as a mode of performing one’s subjectivity in contemporary Korea. Lee has previously written for New Theatre Quarterly, Performance Research, and Theatre Survey, and is a recipient of the Ric Weiland Humanities and Sciences Fellowship, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and the Charlene Porras Graduate Scholar Award from the El Centro Chicano y Latino at Stanford University.