The Department is pleased to announce the following faculty fellowships and awards.

• Professor Kaori Idemaru is the recipient of the Hakuhodo Foundation 16th Japanese Research Fellowship, for her research project “Acoustic Factors Predicting Foreign Accent in Second Language Japanese and its Social and Affective Consequences” (2021). She will be doing research in Japan at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics in Tokyo.
• Professor Nayoung Kwon is the recipient of a Korean Studies Grant for her research project “When Words Sound Small and Happy.”
• Professor Luke Habberstad is the recipient of the Center for Chinese Studies Research Grant, National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan (May-July, 2021). He will be working on his research project “Water Control and Political Culture in Early Imperial China”
• Professor Rachel DiNitto was awarded the 2021 UO Sustainability Award for Excellence in Teaching for her class, Japanese Environmental Cinema. She will also be a UO Sustainability Fellow for 2021-22. Read more at:  https://cas.uoregon.edu/2021/05/two-uo-professors-awarded-2021-sustainability-teaching-awards/
• Professor Zhuo Jing-Schmidt was awarded the UO Open Access APC Fund Award for peer-reviewed journal article publication in PLOS One, “#MaskOn! #MaskOff! Digital polarization of mask-wearing in the United States during COVID-19 – PLOS.” https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250817

We also celebrate the books and articles published by our faculty this year:

Rachel DiNitto

“Envisioning Nuclear Futures: Shiriagari Kotobuki’s Manga from Hope to Despair.” In Roman Rosenbaum, ed., The Representation of Japanese Politics in Manga: The Visual Literacy of Statecraft. London: Routledge, 2021.

「汚染の言説としての「狂気」―チェルノブイリとフクシマにおける汚染のナラティブをめぐって」(Insanity as Toxic Discourse: Narratives of Pollution in Chernobyl and Fukushima). In Saeko Kimura and Ann Bayard-Sakai, eds., 『世界文学としての＜震災後文学＞』(Postdisaster Fiction as World Literature). Tokyo: Akashi shoten, 2021.

Maram Epstein

“Li Zhi’s Strategic Self-Fashioning: Sketch of a Filial Self,” pp. 38-52. Pauline Lee, Rivi

Handler-Spitz, Haun Saussy eds., The Objectionable Li Zhi: Fiction, Syncretism, and Dissent in Late Ming China. University of Washington Press, 2020.

“The Argument for a Woman’s Authorship of the Hou Honglou meng.” Nan nü 22.2 (2020): 223-264.

“Redefining Filial Piety as an Emotion,” pp. 269-313. Yuri Pines and Waiyee Li eds., Keywords. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020.

Luke Habberstad

“A Government in Verse: Bureaucratic Aesthetics and Voice in Han and Post-Han Admonitions (zhen 箴). Oriens-Extremus 57 (2018-2019; in print: 12/16/2020), 231-66.

Kaori Idemaru

Idemaru, K., Kato, M., & Tsukada, K. (2021).  Acoustic sources of accent in second language Japanese: A cross sectional study. In R. Wayland (ed), Second Language Speech Learning. Cambridge University Press.

King, S., Ren, Y., StartzSreetharan, C., & Idemaru, K. (2021). Sounding like a father: The influence of regional dialect on perceptions of masculinity and fatherhood. Language in Society, 1-24. doi:10.1017/S0047404520000925

Idemaru, K., & Vaughn, C. (2020). Perceptual tracking of distinct distributional regularities within a single voice. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148, EL 427. https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/10.0002762

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt & her team

Hung, Steffi H. Manual action motivates networked meanings of a productive construction in Mandarin: Rethinking polysemy. Chinese Language & Discourse. Online First Publication: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/cld.00032.hun

Lang, Jun. Teaching and Learning Bei-Constructions: A Usage-Based Constructionist  Approach. Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching 6, 27-57. 2021

Lang, Jun. Neological cancer metaphors in the Chinese cyberspace: Uses and social  meanings. Chinese Language and Discourse 11(2), 261-282. 2020

Jun Lang, Wesley W. Erickson, & Z. Jing-Schmidt. #MaskOn! #MaskOff! Digital polarization of mask-wearing in the United States during COVID-19. PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250817 (Open Access): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250817. 2021

Huijing Wang, Heidi H. Shi, Z. Jing-Schmidt. Affective stance in constructional idioms:A usage-based constructionist approach to Mandarin [yòu X yòu Y]. Journal of Pragmatics 177, 29-50. 2021

Metonymy: mental simplism and our best and worst instincts. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8(1), 138-157. 2021

Ying Chen & Z. Jing-Schmidt. Chinese LVS constructions: Noncanonical word order and information status. Modern Foreign Languages 44(3), 372-383. 2021

Heidi H. Shi, Sophia Xiaoyu Liu, & Z. Jing-Schmidt. “Manual action metaphors in Chinese: A usage-based constructionist study”. In B. Basciano, F. Gatti, & A. Morbiato (eds.), 111-130. Corpus-based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics [Sinica Venetiana 6]. Venice, Italy: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari University Press. DOI 10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/004 (Open Access): https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-407-3/manual-action-metaphors-in-chinese/) 2020

Heidi H. Shi & Z. Jing-Schmidt. Little cutie one piece: An innovative human classifier and its social indexicality in Chinese digital culture. Chinese Language & Discourse 11(1), 31-54.2020

Jina Kim 

“The Sonic Unconscious and the Wartime Radio Novel in Colonial Korea,” 275-291. In Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature. Ed. Yoon Sun Yang. London: Routledge, 2020.

“Broadcasting Solidarity Across the Pacific: Reimagining the Tongp’o in Take Me Home and the Free Chol Soo Lee Movement.” The Journal of Asian Studies 79.4 (November 2020): 891-910

Nayoung Kwon

Kwon, N. (2020). The processing of a long-distance dependency in Korean: An overview. The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics.

Glynne Walley

Kyokutei Bakin, Eight Dogs, or “Hakkenden” Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest. Translated by Glynne Walley. Cornell UP. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501758935/eight-dogs-or-hakkenden/#bookTabs=1

Yugen Wang

Writing Poetry, Surviving War: The Works of Refugee Scholar-Official Chen Yuyi (1090-1139). Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2020.