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- We are delighted to announce that Yuefan (Ivy) Wang has been awarded a 2025 Summer Research Fellowship for Specialized Faculty from School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics. Her project, “Her Identities in Pictorial Space:... Read full story Yuefan (Ivy) Wang Awarded 2025 SLCL Summer Research Fellowship for Specialized Faculty
- Below is a selection of our Fall 2025 courses. For a complete list, please visit Course Explorer. EALC 360 BTA: English in South Korea TR, 11:05 AM – 12... Read full story Fall 2025 Courses
- Below is a selection of our Summer 2025 courses. For a complete list, please visit Course Explorer. JAPN 201: Elementary Japanese I Are you interested in learning more about Japanese... Read full story Summer 2025 Courses
Event Spotlight: Chi Lung Kang Endowed Lecture Series (2025)
Public Talk by Professor Dali Yang, U.S.-China Relations: How Did We Get Here, Where Are We Going. Speaker: Professor Dali L. Yang, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago; Chair: Professor Matthew S. Winters, Department of Political Science, and Director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From...
Student Spotlight: UIUC Student Ana Engelbrecht Wins the Excellence Award at the 6th Midwest Korean Speech Contest
Elizabeth Jones and Ana Engelbrecht, winners of the Beginning and Advanced Levels respectively at the 9th UIUC Korean Speech Contest, recently represented the Korean Language Program at the 6th Midwest Korean Speech Contest on April 5, 2025. We are proud to share that Ana was awarded the Excellence Award in the Advanced Level category.As part of this honor, Ana will receive a $500 cash prize and a scholarship to study at Chungnam National University in Korea.Congratulations, Ana, on this outstanding achievement!
Student Spotlight: Jinsub Song Wins The Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize for 2024 MCAA
Jinsub Song, who graduated this summer with his PhD from EALC, won the Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize for the China and Inner Asian Region at the 2024 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. His paper is titled “The Divergence of Self in the Dasheng Qixin Lun and True Self as A Priori Foundation” and a description of his research is shared below. Jinsub has also been nominated to present this paper to the Council of Conferences at AAS in 2025. Congratulations, Dr. Song! Paper Abstract This research investigates the divergence...
Faculty Spotlight: Three New Instructors/Lecturers to join EALC in Fall 2024
We are delighted to announce that three new faculty will join the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures starting Fall 2024: Quillon Arkenstone (Lecturer in Modern-Contemporary Japanese Literature), Yujie Pu (Instructor in Imperial Chinese History), and Jihye Yun (Instructor in Korean Language). Our new colleagues will add to our strengths in the study and teaching of Japan, China, and Korea. Dr. Quillon Arkenstone Dr. Arkenstone holds a PhD in Japanese literature from the University of Hawai’i. His research, which involves literary studies, theory,...
Faculty Spotlight: Anna Jungeun Lee to join EALC faculty in Fall 2024
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Anna Jungeun Lee will join the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures as Assistant Professor of Korean History. Dr. Lee, previously the Global Korean Studies Invited Professor at the College of International Studies at Korea University, is a historian of Korea’s transnational consumption. Her research focuses on the intersection of state and society in consumer spaces in modern South Korea. Her first book project, “Resisting Consumers: Transnational Consumption in Authoritarian South Korea” examines the irony of foreign and luxury...
Publication Spotlight: New book by EALC Professor Emeritus Ronald Toby: Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850
In Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850, Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity crisis, a paradigm shift from a view of the world as comprising only “three countries” (sangoku), i.e., Japan, China and India, to a world of “myriad countries” ( bankoku) and...
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