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College of East Asian Studies 1 College of East Asian Studies 1 BA, Beijing University; MA, Washington University; PHD, Yale University COLLEGE OF EAST ASIAN Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Takeshi Watanabe STUDIES BA, Yale University; PHD, Yale University Associate Professor of East Asian Studies The College of East Asian Studies (CEAS) challenges students to understand China, Japan, and Korea through the rigors of language study and the analytical tools of various academic disciplines. This process demands both broad exposure to different subjects and a focused perspective on a particular feature of the East AFFILIATED FACULTY Asian landscape. Japan, China, and Korea are related yet distinctive civilizations. Talia Johanna Andrei Each has its own traditions and patterns of development. These traditions have BA, Rutgers University; MA, Columbia University; MPHIL, Columbia University; played an important role in the development of culture around the globe and PHD, Columbia University remain formative influences today. Assistant Professor of Art History; Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies Students interested in East Asian studies will be guided by the expectations Stephen Angle for liberal learning at Wesleyan and by the CEAS's interdisciplinary approach. BA, Yale University; PHD, University of Michigan Language, premodern history and culture, and the sophomore Proseminar Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies; Professor of Philosophy; provide the common core of our program. The Proseminar exposes students Director, Center for Global Studies; Professor, East Asian Studies to a wide variety of intellectual approaches to East Asian studies and thereby provides a foundation for students to focus in more depth in particular areas. Katherine Brunson BA, Harvard University; MA, University of California, Los Angeles; PHD, University of California, Los Angeles FACULTY Assistant Prof of Archaeology; Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies Lisa A. Dombrowski Scott W. Aalgaard BA, Wesleyan University; MA, University of Wisconsin at Madison; PHD, BA, University of Victoria; MA, University of Victoria; MA, University of Chicago; University of Wisconsin at Madison PHD, University of Chicago Associate Professor of Film Studies; Associate Professor, East Asian Studies Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Mary Alice Haddad Hyejoo Back BA, Amherst College; MA, University of Washington; PHD, University of BS, Busan National University; MED, Busan National University; PHD, SUNY at Washington Albany John E. Andrus Professor of Government; Professor of Government; Chair, Associate Professor of the Practice in East Asian Studies College of East Asian Studies; Director, Office of Faculty Career Development; Professor, Environmental Studies; Professor, East Asian Studies Joan Cho BA, University of Rochester; MA, Harvard University; PHD, Harvard University Masami Imai Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies; Assistant Professor, Government BA, U. of Wisconsin Eau Claire; PHD, University Calif Davis Professor of Economics; Professor, East Asian Studies Wei Gong BA, Beijing Language and Culture U; MA, The University of Hong Kong William D. Johnston Associate Professor of the Practice in East Asian Studies BA, Elmira College; MA, Harvard University; PHD, Harvard University John E. Andrus Professor of History; Professor of History; Professor, Science in Yu-ting Huang Society; Professor, Environmental Studies; Professor, East Asian Studies BA, National Taiwan University; MA, National Taiwan University; PHD, University of California, Los Angeles Marguerite Nguyen Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies BA, Duke University; PHD, University of California, Berkeley Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor, Environmental Studies; Mengjun Liu Associate Professor, East Asian Studies BA, Beijing Normal University; MA, Nanjing Normal University Assistant Professor of the Practice in Chinese Andrew H Quintman BA, Hampshire College; MA, University of Michigan; PHD, University of Michigan Naho Maruta Associate Professor of Religion; Associate Professor, East Asian Studies MA, University of Wisconsin at Madison Associate Professor of the Practice in East Asian Studies; Associate Professor of Keiji Shinohara the Practice, Fries Center for Global Studies Artist-in-Residence, Art; Artist-in-Residence, East Asian Studies Wendi Field Murray Ying Jia Tan BS, Bridgewater State College; MA, University of Arizona; PHD, University of BA, University of California, Berkeley; MA, Stanford University; MPHIL, Yale Arizona University; PHD, Yale University Adjunct Assistant Professor, Archaeology; Adjunct Assistant Professor of East Assistant Professor of History; Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies Asian Studies; Archaeology Collections Manager Su Zheng Ao Wang 2 College of East Asian Studies BA, Central Conservatory of Music; MA, New York University; PHD, Wesleyan with notions of national identity, modernity, and Westernization. How does University the Japanese novel participate in the modern process of nation building, and Associate Professor of Music; Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and how is it used to situate Japan's position in East Asia and the world? We will Sexuality Studies; Associate Professor, East Asian Studies also consider fictional works from marginalized groups in Japan to address how notions of gender and ethnicity serve as an intervention into traditional discourses on Japanese literature. Finally, we will explore new iterations of VISITING FACULTY Japanese fiction in the form of digital media and database narratives. Does advanced technology fundamentally change how we produce and consume Patrick Dowdey narratives and, therefore, view the world around us? How do these new forms BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, University of California, Los Angeles; PHD, impact constructions of national history and identity? Is this phenomenon University of California, Los Angeles somehow unique to Japan, or a simple product of globalization? Visiting Scholar in East Asian Studies Offering: Host Grading: A-F Miyuki Hatano-Cohen Credits: 1.00 BA, Tohoku Gakuin University Gen Ed Area: HA-CEAS Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Prereq: None Yunjeong Lee CEAS157F Legacies of WWII in Postwar Japan (FYS) BA, Sun Moon University; MS, Central Connecticut State University In 1956, The Japanese Economic Planning Agency famously declared that "the Visiting Instructor in East Asian Studies 'post-war' is over." Indeed, by that time, the national economy had made a remarkable recovery since the end of WWII. Others place the end of the "post- Hyun Hee Park war" with Emperor Hirohito's death in 1989. Still, was the "post-war" truly over BA, Dankook University; BA, Yonsei University; MA, Korean National Univ of Arts; for Japan? This seminar aims to tackle this dilemma of the "post-war" and assess PHD, University of Chicago how the war and the American occupation are remembered by the Japanese, as Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies well as Americans and Asian neighbors, and how they continue to reverberate politically and culturally, seventy-odd years after the conflict's ostensible end. The course will begin with some history of WWII and the American occupation. EMERITI Film, literature, and popular media, along with secondary scholarship, will energize discussions about topics such as the rise of anime and otaku culture, Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel Orientalism, gendered racism in Japanese-American relations, the 1964 and 2020 BA, Aichi Prefectural Women's Coll; MA, Michigan State University; MA, Indiana Tokyo Olympics, American bases in Japan, and North Korea. University Bloomington; PHD, Indiana University Bloomington Offering: Host Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, Emerita Grading: OPT Credits: 1.00 Ellen B. Widmer Gen Ed Area: HA-CEAS BA, Wellesley College; MA, Tufts University; MA, Harvard University; MAA, Prereq: None Wesleyan University; PHD, Harvard University CEAS158F Literary Pop Culture: The Tale of Genji and The Story of the Stone Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, Emerita (FYS) Xiaomiao Zhu This first-year seminar addresses two of the great East Asian novels, "The Tale MA, Wesleyan University of Genji" (from Japan) and "The Story of the Stone" (also known as Dream of Adjunct Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, Emerita the Red Chamber) (from China), and their afterlives in modern and premodern popular culture. Topics of discussion include adaptations of both novels as literature and in other media forms (drama, film, TV, etc.); the two novels in painting/prints, games, fan fictions, etc.; shared themes such as family, romance, DEPARTMENTAL ADVISING EXPERTS and power; and social issues including class, gender, and intergenerational conflict. No previous background in East Asian studies required. All program faculty Offering: Host Grading: OPT • Undergraduate College of East Asian Studies Major (https:// Credits: 1.00 catalog.wesleyan.edu/departments/ceas/ugrd-ceas/) Gen Ed Area: HA-CEAS • Undergraduate College of East Asian Studies Minor (https:// Prereq: None catalog.wesleyan.edu/departments/ceas/ugrd-ceas-mn/) CEAS160 Social and Political Changes in Korea Korea is currently the only divided country in the world, with two different political systems--democracy and dictatorship. This course explores developments on the Korean peninsula in the modern to contemporary period. COLLEGE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES We will examine social change, demography, culture, politics, and economy, as CEAS155 Fictional
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