Faculty Members of CEAS

Task-based Language Teaching; Motivation in second language learning; Multiliteracies

Histories of animation, materialism as methodology, media infrastructures, biotechnology, technologies of advertising, (state-) sponsored films, geopolitics and media, Sinophone cinema and film theory, political modernism, Marxism and psychoanalysis

Early Chinese civilization, focusing on philosophy, religion, and history of science.

Twentieth and twenty-first century Chinese literature and film; concepts of realism, modernism, and avant-garde; translation; Chinese opera film; documentary; literary history; media studies.

Japanese Language

Psychology of Second Language Acquisition (identity development, willingness to communicate, etc.), technology in language learning, study abroad

Second Language Acquisition; Third Language Acquisition; Korean Language Pedagogy

Reading strategies, second language acquisition, Chinese language pedagogy, language assessment, computer-assisted language learning

Media history and theory; animation and new media; critical race studies; transnational television; animal studies; science and technology studies; Japanese and continental philosophy; ritual theory and practice; early and medieval Japanese culture

Chinese Language

The archeology of Bronze Age China, including topics in craft specialization and production, especially section-mold casting technology, and the rise of social complexity, inter-regional interaction, and state formation in ancient China.