Faculty Profiles
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
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
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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
Email: byr@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-1996
Office: 501 Kern
http://econ.la.psu.edu/people/biographies/
broberts_bio.shtml
Lecturer Profiles
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
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
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)
Sorin Huh
Coordinator of the Korean Program
E-mail:suh30@psu.edu
Phone: 814-867-3260
Office: 202 Old Botany
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
