Faculty Members of CEAS

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Miku Fukasaku

Associate Instructional Professor in Japanese Language Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Office: WB 301A

mfukasaku@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Cassandra Guan

Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies

Office: Classics 305

cassandraguan@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Cassandra Guan works on the history of animation with a special focus on the co-evolution of modernist aesthetics, new media technologies, and the lif...

Donald Harper

Centennial Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Office: 1050 E 59th St. Wieboldt 124 Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 702-8533

dharper@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Professor Harper studies early Chinese civilization, the history of science, philosophy, and religion. He is also a member of the Creel Center for Chi...

Paola Iovene

Associate Professor in Chinese Literature Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Director of Graduate Studies;

Office: 1050 E 59th St Wieboldt 301G Chicago, IL, 60615

Phone: 773.834.1847

iovene@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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.

Professor Iovene's work focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Chinese literature and film. Her areas of research include contemporary Chinese ...

Yoko Katagiri

Instructional Professor in Japanese Language Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Office: 1050 E 59th St Wieboldt 301A Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 834-1796

ykatagiri@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Japanese Language

Tomoko Kern

Assistant Instructional Professor in Japanese Language Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Office: WB 301M

twkern@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Jieun Kim

Senior Lecturer in Korean Language, Korean Language Program Director Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Office: WB 301K

Phone: (773) 834-4683

jieunk@uchicago.edu

Bitsol Kim

Assistant Instructional Professor in Korean Language Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Interests:

Second Language Acquisition; Third Language Acquisition; Korean Language Pedagogy

Yi-Lu Kuo

Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Office: 5845 S Ellis Ave Gates-Blake 231 Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 834-2110

yilukuo@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Thomas Lamarre

Chair of Cinema and Media Studies (Winter Quarter 2024); Director of Graduate Studies; Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College

Office: Classics 306

tlamarre@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Professor Lamarre is a scholar of media, cinema and animation, intellectual history and material culture, with projects ranging from the communication...

Meng Li

Instructional Professor in Chinese Language Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Office: 5845 S Ellis Ave Gates-Blake 231 Chicago, IL, 60637

Phone: (773) 702-2393

mengli@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Chinese Language

Yung-ti Li

Associate Professor Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Office: Walker 001

Phone: (773) 834-4521

ytli@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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.

Professor Li’s research focuses on the archaeology of Bronze Age China; craft specialization and production, with a specialization on bronze casting t...