Faculty & Staff
Lecturers
Fang-Pei Cai, M.A.
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Wieboldt 301D
773-702-1046
Teaching/Research Interests:
Teaching Advanced Modern Chinese; co-teaching Elementary Modern Chinese with Professor Chih-Ch'ao Chao; interested in early philosophical Taoist texts and using new technology to assist in language teaching.
Yoko Katagiri , M.A.
Lecturer in Japanese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Wieboldt 301A
773-702-5808
Teaching/Research interests:
Japanese Language
Hi-Sun Kim, Ph.D
Lecturer in Korean Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Classics 44
773-834-4683
Teaching/Research interests:
Teaching Intermediate and Advanced Korean. Research interests include: Korean linguistics, theory & issues in second language acquisition and pedagogy. Recent research focuses on socio-and psycholinguistics (sentence processing differences) of heritage language learners of Korean.
Meng Li , Ph.D
Lecturer in Chinese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Gates Blake 124
Teaching/Research interests:
Chinese Language
Yuxiang Liu
Lecturer in Chinese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Gates-Blake 122
773-702-2393
Teaching/Research Interests:
Chinese Language
Jung-Hyuck Lee, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Korean Language and Acting Director of the Korean Language Program, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Classics 44
773-834-4683
Teaching/Research Interests:
Teaching Intermediate Korean; interested in issues such as language communication from programmatic and socio-linguistic viewpoints, Korean syntax and semantics, and second language acquisition.
Misa Miyachi, M.A.
Lecturer in Japanese Language, East Asian Language and Civilizations
Wieboldt 301M
773-702-5805
Teaching/Research Interets:
Japanese language
Hiroyoshi Noto, M.A.
Senior Lecturer in Japanese Language and Director of the Japanese Language Program, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Wieboldt 301M
773-702-5805
hnhn@uchicago.edu
Teaching/Research Interests:
Teaching Advanced Japanese, Contemporary Japanese Issues and Meiji Bungo; cultural aspects of business in Japan; has published Communicating in Japanese, Intermediate Japanese, and a teacher's guide to each. Project: Developing new teaching materials for Intermediate Japanese course using "Japanimation," together with other Japanese language faculty.
Laura Skosey, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Classical Chinese Language, East Asian Language and Civilizations; Lecturer in Ancient Chinese Law, University of Chicago Law School.
Classics 45
773-834-2178
Teaching/Research Interests:
Early Chinese legal history and culture, classical Chinese, and early Chinese culture history.
Youqin Wang, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Harper Memorial Library 508
773-702-0778
Teaching/Research Intesests:
Teaching Intermediate and Advanced Chinese Language. Interest in using computer technology for language learning. Research focuses on cultural comparison, and "the history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution."
Yoshiko Watanabe, M.A.
Visiting Lecturer in Japanese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Wieboldt 301A
773-702-5808
yoshiko@uchicago.edu
Teaching/Research Interests:
Japanese Language.
Jun Yang, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Weiboldt 301D
773-702-5514
Teaching/Research Interests:
Jun Yang has a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. His research interests include Chinese lingistics, second language acquisition, and discourse analysis. He is also very interested in Chinese language pedagogy and foreign language evaluation
Yuhua Yang
Lecturer in Chinese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Gates-Blake 122
773-834-3483
Teaching/Research Interests:
Chinese Language.
