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Faculty Profiles


Jonathan Abel

Jonathan Abel

E-mail: jea17@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-2263
Office: 441 Burrowes

http://www.personal.psu.edu/jea17/JEA/
Jonathan_E._Abel/JEA.html

David Atwill

David Atwill

E-mail: dga11@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-1218
Office: 413A Weaver

http://history.psu.edu/directory/dga11

Jade Atwill

Jade Atwill

E-mail: yya2@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-0738
Office: 126 Paterno Library

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/artshumanities/faculty
_and_staff/yyacv.html

Andrea Bachner

Andrea Bachner

E-mail: asb20@psu.edu
Phone:
Office:

http://complit.la.psu.edu/people-fac.shtml

Andrea Bachner

Kathlene Baldanza

E-mail: ktb3@psu.edu
Phone: 814-853-0131
Office: 201 Weaver

http://history.psu.edu/directory/ktb3

Erica Brindley

Erica Brindley

E-mail: efb12@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-3968
Office: 209 Weaver

http://history.psu.edu/directory/efb12

Gretchen Casper

Gretchen Casper

E-mail: gcasper@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-8748
Office: 315 Pond Lab

http://www.personal.psu.edu/ggc3/

Tina Chen

Tina Chen

E-mail: tina.chen@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-9592
Office: 16 Burrowes

http://www.cals.psu.edu/faculty/bios/Chen.shtml

Madhuri Desai

Madhuri Desai

E-mail:msd13@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-4885
Office: 221 Arts Building

http://arthistory.psu.edu/faculty/psu/desai

Charlotte Eubanks

Charlotte Eubanks

Email: cde13@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-4933
Office: 438 Burrowes

http://complit.la.psu.edu/Eubanks.shtml

Eric Hayot

Eric Hayot

Email: ehayot@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-1188
Office: 441 Burrowes

http://erichayot.org

Ronnie Hsia

Ronnie Hsia

Email: rxh46@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-8942
Office: 108 Weaver

http://history.psu.edu/directory/rxh46

Kate Merkel-Hess

Kate Merkel-Hess

Email: kxm81@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-0750
Office: 108 Weaver

http://history.psu.edu/directory/kxm81

On-cho Ng

On-cho Ng

Email: oxn1@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-7703
Office: 213 Weaver

http://history.psu.edu/directory/oxn1

Sumita Raghuram

Sumita Raghuram

Email: sur19@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-5425
Office: 125 Willard

http://lser.la.psu.edu/people/facultyprofiles/
s_raghuram.shtml

Bee-yan Roberts

Bee-yan Roberts

Email: byr@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-1996
Office: 501 Kern

http://econ.la.psu.edu/people/biographies/
broberts_bio.shtml

Gonzalo Rubio

Email: gxr18@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-4946
Office: 324 Weaver

http://history.psu.edu/directory/gxr18

Shuang Shen

Shuang Shen

Email: sxs1075@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-0589
Office: 427 Burrowes

http://complit.la.psu.edu/people-fac.shtml

Gregory Smits

Gregory Smits

Email: gjs4@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-0172
Office: 211 Weaver

http://history.psu.edu/directory/gjs4

Susan Strauss

Susan G. Strauss

Email: sgs9@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-7986
Office: 300 Sparks

http://www.personal.psu.edu/sgs9/

Reiko Tachibana

Reiko Tachibana

Email:rxn6@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-4932
Office: 443 Burrowes

http://www.personal.psu.edu/rxn6/

Xiaoye You

Xiaoye You

Email: xuy10@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-0595
Office: 118 Burrowes

http://www.personal.psu.edu/xuy10/

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Ning Yu

Professor of Applied Linguistics

E-mail:nxy913@psu.edu
Phone: 814-867-7365
Office: 304 Sparks

http://aplng.la.psu.edu/people/yu.shtml

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Boliang Zhu

E-mail:bxz14@psu.edu
Phone: 814-85-6901
Office: 203 Pond Lab

http://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/bxz14


Lecturer Profiles




Jessamyn Abel

Jessamyn Abel

Senior Lecturer in History and Asian Studies (begins Fall 2009)

B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Columbia University

E-mail: jessamyn.abel@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-3931
Office: 326 Weaver

http://history.psu.edu/directory/jua14

Chunyuan Di

Chunyuan Di

Lecturer in Chinese

A.A., The Academy of Traditional Chinese Opera (Beijing); B.A., University of Arizona; M.A. Arizona State University (in progress)

Email: cud15@psu.edu
Phone: 814-867-3419
Office: 324 Pond Lab

http://complit.la.psu.edu/Di.shtml

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Wen-Hua Du

Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program

E-mail: wud4@psu.edu
Phone: 814-867-3261
Office: 201B Old Botany

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
M.A. National Taiwan Normal University
B.A. Soochow University, Taiwan

Wen-Hua Du obtained her M.A. degree in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University, Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Curriculum and Instruction, minored in Foreign Languages and Linguistics. Prior to her current position at Penn State, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has taught a wide range of Chinese language courses for various institutions, including immersion programs, summer intensive programs, and regular language and culture courses at liberal art colleges and state universities. Dr. Du’s research interest includes the teaching and learning of culture, language learning strategies, pedagogy of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) and Chinese as a Heritage Language (CHL). Selected recent conference presentations and proceedings include: “Preliminary Examination on Beginning Level of CHL Writing and its Implication of Curriculum Design” (2012), “Teaching Chinese culture to learners of Chinese as a heritage language: A journey of culture learning, relearning and ethnic identity formation” (2012), “Time lag in characters teaching and learning: A preliminary investigation from learners’ perspectives” (2011), “Developing a Blended Curriculum in Elementary Chinese: The Penn State Experience” (2011)

 

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Sorin Huh

Coordinator of the Korean Program

E-mail:suh30@psu.edu
Phone: 814-867-3260
Office: 202 Old Botany

Haruko Iwami

Haruko Iwami

Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program

Senior Lecturer in Japanese Language

M.A. in Japanese, University of Wisconsin-Madison

B.A. in Education, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Japanese linguistics, Japanese language pedagogy.

Email: hui3@psu.edu
Phone: 814-867-3421
Office: 323 Pond Laboratory

Natsuko Osada

Natsuko Osada

Lecturer in Japanese Language

B.A. Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan; M.A. Temple University, Philadelphia; Fields of Specialization: Japanese Aesthetics and Literature

Email: nuo2@psu.edu
Phone: 814-867-3264
Office: 325 Pond Lab

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Manini N. Samarth

Senior Lecturer in English and Women's Studies

Ph.D, Purdue University; M.Litt, CIEFL, Hyderabad, India; M.A, B.A., University of Madras, India.

Email: mns2@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-5311
Office: 144 Burrowes

http://english.la.psu.edu/faculty-staff/mns2

Suchismita Sen

Suchsmita Sen

Lecturer in History

B.Sc., University of Calcutta; M.A., Ph.D., Penn State University

Email: srs11@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-8940
Office: 414 Weaver

http://www.personal.psu.edu/srs11/

Jia Yu

Jia Yu

Lecturer in Chinese

B.A. Beijing Language and Culture University
M.A. Ohio University

Jia Yu specializes in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, Chinese linguistics, L2 learner's identity and CALL.

Email: jxy28@psu.edu
Phone:
Office: 201D Old Botany

Megumu Tamura

Megumu Tamura

Lecturer in Japanese

B.A. Tohoku Gakuin Univeristy, Sendai, Japan; B.S. Eastern Oregon University; M.A. Purdue University

Field of specialization; Second language pedagogy, Japanese literature.

Email: mut6@psu.edu
Phone: 814-867-3420
Office: 324 Pond Lab

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Pauli Wai

Visiting Lecturer of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies (Chinese)

E-mail:
Phone: 814-867-3260
Office: 102 Old Botany

B.A., M.A. University of California, Berkeley

Teaching interests: Classical Chinese language.  Early and medieval Chinese works in these genres—the Classics, prose essays and narratives, biographies and memorials, poetry and rhapsodies, commentaries, Tang-Song “ancient prose” essays.  Late imperial Chinese drama, vernacular and classical fiction, miniature essays.  Survey of modern Chinese literature, film, and music. 

Research interests: Questions of interpretation in pre-modern Chinese commentarial traditions; processes by which texts accrue or lose authority and status; hermeneutical issues in classical scholarship, traditional literary, and historical criticism.  My dissertation, upon which I base my book project, is entitled Merging Horizons: Textual Authority and the Zuo Tradition from Western Han to Western Jin (2nd c. BCE  – 3rd c. CE).  This project examines the central forms of textual authority in early to early medieval China, focusing on the reception history of the Zuo Tradition during the period before it attained definitive authority (in early Tang, 7th c. CE).  My research tracks the evolving conceptions of the Zuo Tradition through successive stages of scholarly debates about the nature and value of texts whose claim to status lie in the recognition of their interpretative authority on the Classics.

 

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