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June 15, 2021

Celebrating EALL Faculty fellowships, awards, and publications!

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.

May 5, 2021

EALL interdisciplinary research team finds opposition to face masks amplified by media

The U.S. stood out as the country where masking to prevent the spread of COVID-19 was a divisive issue. How divisive was it? We analyzed 412,959 Twitter hashtags about masking and found a shouty rhetorical polarization on the issue; but it wasn’t nearly a shouting “match” because mask supporters wildly outnumbered resisters whose insults and disinformation couldn’t penetrate the pro-mask echo chamber. In short, the Twitterverse was overwhelmingly in favor of the greater good. That’s a message of hope.

My team is passionate about real-world linguistic research and the interdisciplinary challenges and opportunities that it affords us as researchers. We had a lot of fun with this project. See the below link for the full article.

Media amplified anti-mask minority on Twitter

 

March 23, 2021

Professor Jina Kim awarded a CSWS Faculty Research Grant

Professor Kim is the recipient of a CSWS Faculty Research Grant to support of her project “Sounding Women: Chang Tokjo’s Mid Century Korean Radio Novels (1914-2003)” for academic year 2021-2022.

March 3, 2021

Excellence in Remote Teaching Awards

Congratulations to EALL Professors Alisa Freedman and Kaori Idemaru for being selected by the Provost’s Office as recipients of the Excellence in Remote Teaching Award for Spring 2020. The awards recognize faculty who transformed their Spring 2020 traditional, face-to-face courses into accessible, engaging, and well-organized remote teaching environments where students built valuable relationships with their instructors and peers. Find out more about their teaching and the award at: https://provost.uoregon.edu/remote-teaching-awards

November 13, 2020

EALL will be offering JPN101 Winter 2021

Please include JPN101 in your winter 21 course list. Now students can start Japanese language learning in winter term, too. JPN102 will be offered in spring and JPN103 in summer so that students can complete the whole first term Japanese language sequence by the end of summer 21. The class will be a good entry point for those students who are interested in other cultures.

June 2, 2020

Professor Glynne Walley receives Presidential Fellowship in Humanistic Study and Sibley Translation Award

Professor Glynne Walley is the recipient of a 2020-21 Presidential Fellowship in Humanistic Study. He will be using the award to continue work on his translation of one of the most important literary works in East Asian history: Nansō Satomi hakkenden (Eight Dogs of the Satomi of Southern Fusa; Eight Dogs for short) by Kyokutei Bakin. Serialized in Japan between 1814 and 1842, Eight Dogs is possibly the longest novel in the world; the most recent edition runs to some 6,000 pages in twelve volumes. Eight Dogs was massively popular at the time of its initial publication, it played a crucial role in the establishment of modern Japanese literature, and its influence can still be seen in literary, visual, and popular culture today.

Eight Dogs is the subject of Professor Walley’s 2017 monograph Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment & Kyokutei Bakin’s Nansō Satomi hakkenden (Cornell East Asia Series). The translation is projected to appear in eight volumes from Cornell East Asia Series. The first volume is scheduled to be published in spring 2021 and has already received the 2018-19 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation from the University of Chicago, a prestigious prize that underscores the significance of this project. (https://ceas.uchicago.edu/news/2018-19-william-f-sibley-memorial-subvention-award-japanese-translation-presented-cornell)

 

Please join the department in congratulating Professor Walley for receiving this award to continue his work on this much awaited translation. His masterful translations are making this hugely important novel available to a wide audience of English-language readers.

March 24, 2020

A message from EALL’s department head

Hello East Asian Studies students! I am the head of the East Asian Languages & Literatures department. Given the many disruptions caused by COVID-19, we understand the sense of uncertainty many feel in our academic and personal lives. One thing that will not be disrupted, however, is our faculty’s commitment to student learning and well-being. While we move to online learning for the spring term, please rest assured that all EALL faculty are working hard to ensure a transition that is as seamless as possible. No doubt many of you have already heard from your spring term instructors. If you have not, you will very soon. 

 

As always, we are here to support you inside and outside the classroom. Please refer to the EALL webpage for staff and faculty advisor contact information. Even if we will not be able to meet in person, we will be looking for ways to maintain a virtual sense of community as much as is possible, so please be on the lookout in the weeks and months ahead for more announcements from the department. 

 

In the meantime, please stay healthy and safe, and don’t hesitate to reach out to us if we can help!

 

Sincerely,

 

Rachel DiNitto

Department Head

East Asian Languages & Literatures

February 21, 2020

Professor Glynne Walley featured in Around the O

EALL’s Japanese Professor Glynne Walley’s research on traditional Japanese ghosts and monsters and early modern print culture is the subject of an upcoming Around the O article, https://around.uoregon.edu/devoted-collecting-traditional-japanese-monsters-and-art-miniature.

January 6, 2020

EALL Faculty Awards

EALL Faculty Awards

CAS 2020 Summer Stipend for Humanities and Creative Arts Faculty – Kaori Idemaru

OHC Research Fellowship – Jina Kim, Earnest G. Moll Research Fellowship in Literary Studies

OHC Teaching Fellowship – Luke Habberstad, and Kaori Idemaru, EALL 199 Writing in East Asian: From Graphs to GIFS, Coleman Guitteau Professorship in Humanities

October 18, 2019

EALL Ranks Top 5 Nationally

According to a recent survey from the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures is among the most robust programs in the United States for studying the language and culture of East Asia. Based on number of majors, the Chinese and Japanese programs both rank fourth, and EALL as a whole ranks fifth among departments of East Asian languages, literatures, and linguistics. Congratulations to everybody in the department and thank you to our fantastic community of students and faculty!

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