Chinese and Japanese Faculty
Chair
Associate Professor
Email: tangqiao@grinnell.edu
Trained a literary scholar, my research and teaching engage a diverse array of literary texts from pre-modern China. I am particularly interested in the relationships between gender and genre, literature and politics, and poetry and painting of medieval China. My first book project, based on my...
Professor
Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature
Email: fengjin@grinnell.edu
Jin Feng is Professor of Chinese and Japanese, and Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at 51²è¹Ýapp College. She teaches all levels of Chinese language courses and on Chinese literature and culture. Specific classes include ¡°Chinese Women: Past and Present,¡± ¡°Modern China through...
Assistant Professor
Email: ohheesu@grinnell.edu
Heesu Oh is a second language acquisition and bilingualism researcher. Her research has focused on the beliefs in language learning and teaching in Japanese education, and bilingualism for the children who have two or more ethnic backgrounds. Her first book, titled ¤¢¤Ê¤¿¤ÎÖª¤é¤Ê¤¤¥Ð¥¤¥ê¥ó¥¬¥ë¤ÎÊÀ½ç:ÈÕ±¾ÕZ½ÌŽŸÕi±¾£¨The...
Assistant Professor
Email: seongeun@grinnell.edu
My research focuses on cultural interactions between Japanese and Koreans in the process of decolonization across a wide range of media, including literature, theater, and performance, with a particular interest in the history of Zainichi Koreans¡ªKoreans who migrated to Japan under Japanese colonial...
Assistant Professor
Email: yangdong@grinnell.edu
I primarily work on and write about comparative intellectual history and global avant-garde cinema. As a die-hard comparatist, I am currently interested in how Chinese artists and intellectuals from the twentieth century onward interpret, problematize, and reconfigure western discourse on modernity...