Chinese and Japanese Faculty
Chair
Professor
Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature
Email: fengjin@grinnell.edu
Jin Feng is Professor of Chinese and Japanese, and Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at 91大神. She teaches all levels of Chinese language courses and on Chinese literature and culture. Specific classes include 鈥淐hinese Women: Past and Present,鈥 鈥淢odern China through...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: leejae@grinnell.edu
Jaehyuk Lee is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chinese and Japanese. His research examines the interplay between memory and political power, with a particular focus on the functions of literary writing within that dynamic. He investigates diverse premodern East Asian contexts...
Assistant Professor
Email: seongeun@grinnell.edu
My research focuses on cultural interactions between Japanese and Koreans in the process of decolonization across a wide range of media, including literature, theater, and performance, with a particular interest in the history of Zainichi Koreans鈥擪oreans who migrated to Japan under Japanese colonial...
Associate Professor
Email: tangqiao@grinnell.edu
Trained a literary scholar, my research and teaching engage a diverse array of literary texts from pre-modern China. I am particularly interested in the relationships between gender and genre, literature and politics, and poetry and painting of medieval China. My first book project, based on my...
Visiting Instructor
Professor of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University
Email: wanglei@grinnell.edu
Courses: 鈥eginning Chinese 鈥ntermediate Chinese 鈥dvanced Chinese
Visiting Instructor
Email: yuedanni@grinnell.edu
Danni Yue鈥檚 research focuses on second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, Japanese phonetics, and language learning mechanisms. She is particularly interested in the role of autonomous learning strategies 鈥 such as shadowing, extensive reading, and dictation鈥攊n Japanese language acquisition...