Chair

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Shaohua Guo Bio
Associate Professor of Chinese
Chair of Asian Languages and Literatures
Phone: 507 222 5957

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm, Thursdays 12:00 – 1:30, and by appointment.

Beijing Normal University, (Beijing, Peoples Republic of China), B.A., M.A.; The University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D; cultural studies of new media, Chinese literature, film and culture.

Faculty

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Lin Deng Bio
Lecturer in Chinese
Phone: 507 222 5425

Office Hours: Mondays and Fridays 2:30-4:00 pm; and by appointment

Peking University, B.A. & M.A.; University of Washington, Ph.D.; Chinese linguistics, especially Old Chinese phonology, morphology, syntax, and paleography; early Chinese inscriptions.

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Miaki Habuka Bio
Instructor in Japanese
Phone: 507 222 4019

Office Hours:

Mondays 12:30-1:30, Tuesdays: 2:30-3:30, Wednesdays 2:00 – 3:00, Thursdays: 1:30-2:30 & by appointment.
Drop In Office Hours: Mondays and Fridays 7:00-7:30 pm via Zoom.

Miyagi Gakuin Women’s College, B.A.; University of Northern Iowa, M.A.; University of St. Thomas, M.A. Basic concepts of Japanese Language Teaching, Content based instructions, Reading Strategies, Integrating Technology into Teaching Japanese, & Designing Business Japanese Curriculums taken from University of Colorado. Growing interest in incorporating technology into teaching/learning languages and the flipped classroom.

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Lingling Ma Bio
Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese
Phone: 507 222 4029

Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5 pm, Wednesdays 11am – 12pm, and by appointment.

University of Chicago, M.A.; Harvard University, Ph.D.

Interests: modern Japanese and Chinese literature, modern Japanese art history, history of life sciences and life philosophy.

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Xuping Sun Bio
Visiting Instructor of Chinese

Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 11:10am-12:10pm and/or by appointment.

Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute, B. A.; University of Manitoba (Canada), M.Ed.

Professional Area of Interest: First language loss; Second language acquisition; Second-language learning motivation

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Chie Tokuyama Bio
Assistant Professor of Japanese
Phone: 507 222 4006

Office Hours in LDC 215: Mondays 9:45-10:45 am, Thursdays 9:30-11:30 am, and by appointment.

Soka University (Tokyo), BA; University of Wisconsin-Madison, MA; University of Oregon, PhD

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Noboru Tomonari Bio
Class of 1952 Professor of Asian Languages
Off Campus: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
Phone: 507 222 5955

Sophia University B. A., Tsukuba University M. Ed., Monash University M. A., University of Chicago, PhD; modern and contemporary Japanese literature, cinema, manga, and language, especially autobiographies and works by minorities in Japan.

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Lei Yang Bio
Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures
Off Campus: Winter 2025
Phone: 507 222 5448

 

University of Massachusetts, Amherst M.A.; University of Pennsylvania Ph.D.; Premodern Chinese literature, especially historical narratives, classical texts, and literary theories in early China. Other interests include Chinese archeology and language pedagogy.

Staff

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Christine Hamp
Administrative Assistant in Classics
Administrative Assistant in Asian Languages and Literatures
Administrative Assistant in Middle Eastern Languages
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Ke Ching Huang
Chinese Language Associate

Office Hours: Language Center

Mondays 2:00-4:00 pm
Wednesdays 2:00-3:00 pm
Thursdays 10:00-12:00 pm

 

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Myrto Matsuda
Japanese Language Associate

Office Hours: Wednesdays & Sundays 4:30 – 6:00 pm in the Language Center

Emeriti Faculty

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Mark Hansell Bio
Burton and Lily Levin Professor of Chinese, Emeritus
Phone: 507 222 5437

McGill University B.A.; University of California, Berkeley M.A. Ph.D.; Chinese language and linguistics, especially language contact, lexical borrowing; writing systems; Southeast Asian historical linguistics.

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Mariko Kaga
Class of 1952 Professor of Asian Languages, Emerita
Phone: 507 222 5437

Kobe Kaisei Women’s College, B.A.; University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), M.A., Ph.D.; Japanese language and language pedagogy, especially measures of proficiency. Professor Kaga has also co-authored a computer program, Exercises in Japanese Counters and Kana. She is developing a digitized computer program for listening and reading practice.

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Kathryn Sparling
Tanaka Memorial Professor of International Understanding and Japanese, Emerita
Phone: 507 222 5437

Stanford, B.A.; Ochanomizu University, M.A.; Harvard, Ph.D.; Japanese language and literature, especially modern fiction, with particular emphasis on Natsume Soseki, Mishima Yukio, Shimao Toshio, and fiction by contemporary Japanese women. Growing interest in English language fiction by Indian women.