Department News
NEW BOOKS BY EALL FACULTY
Professor Ridgely's new book, Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shūji, has been released from University of Minnesota Press. Professor Nienhauser has recently published two books. One is an edited volume called Tang Dynasty Tales, which features translations from Professor Huntington and several EALL Chinese Literature PhD alumni. The other is volume IX of The Grand Scribe's Records, published by Indiana University Press. Professor Zhang has co-edited a collection of translations from the field of Chinese linguistics. Click the covers for more information.
These will join the following selection of publications by EALL faculty:
NEW UNDERGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN JAPANESE PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
The Department of East Asian Languages and Literature is proud to announce a new certificate program in Japanese, which has been approved by the University Academic Planning Council on April 21, 2011. The department will start administering the program in Fall 2011.
The Certificate in Japanese Professional Communication offers students the opportunity to develop their proficiency in Japanese while completing their major(s) in other subjects across the University. It aims to enhance students’ communication skills as well as cultural understanding to help them embark on professional and academic careers that involve the use of Japanese language. This certificate is open to all undergraduate students, except for those who major in Japanese.
This certificate requires 12 credits of Japanese course work beyond East Asian 204 (Fourth Semester Japanese), including EA 377 Business Japanese Communication (3 credits), a required course (to be offered in Spring 2012), and elective courses in Japanese language (6 credits) and literature/humanities (3 credits).
NEW PROFESSOR OF KOREAN LITERATURE AND VISUAL CULTURE HIRED
EALL is pleased to announce that Professor Se-Mi Oh has joined our department. Oh received her B.A. in History and East Asian Studies from UCLA (1999), her M.A. in East Asian Languages & Cultures from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001), and her Ph.D. in the History of East Asia from Columbia University (2008). This fall she will be teaching Modern Korean Film and Culture (E ASIAN 300) and Visuality and Narrative in Modern Korea (E ASIAN 433/833).
JAPAN TSUNAMI RELIEF
Our department supports the efforts by UW-Madison students to raise money on campus and across Madison to support those impacted by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Please see the Japan Tsunami Relief group's website for more information. Their efforts and suggestions for simple ways to donate to the Red Cross were highlighted recently in a university news article.
SPEECH CONTEST WINNER PROFILED
The Monthly Nihongo has published a profile of UW undergraduate Haneol Nam, who won both the Madison and Chicago speech contests for his level of Japanese. Congratuations to Nam-san, who was interviewed while in Japan during the summer after winning roundtrip airfare to Japan at the Chicago contest.