Lynne Miyake, Department Chair and Professor of Japanese

E-mail: lynne.miyake@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.621.8931
Office: Mason 205
Office Hours: MW 11-12, W 1:30-2:30, and by appointment
Professor Miyake's Website

Interests: Heian prose, particularly diary literature; feminist theory and gender studies; narratology and the role of the reader; manga studies with an emphasis on versions on The Tale of Genji
Courses Taught: Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Japanese; Japanese American Autobiography; Japanese Women Writers; Graphically Speaking: Japanese Manga; Freshmen Critical Inquiry seminars on manga, anime, Japanese and Japanese American literature

Sharon Hou, Chinese Coordinator and Associate Professor of Chinese

Email: sharon.hou@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.621.8935
Office: Mason 211
Office Hours: M 4-5, F 3-5, and by appointment

Interests: Classical poetry; traditional literary criticism; language pedagogy (for advanced-level language instruction)
Courses Taught: Elementary and Intermediate Chinese; Readings in Modern Chinese; Modern Chinese Literature; Introduction to Classical Chinese; Chinese Literature in English: Poetry and Poetics

Kyoko Kurita, Japanese Coordinator and Associate Professor of Japanese

Email: kyoko.kurita@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.621.8933
Office: Mason 203
Office Hours: T 1:30-2:30, W 4-5, and by appointment
Professor Kurita's Website

Interests: "Futurological" novels of the 1880s-1890s; how different concepts of time, Japanese and Western, collide
Courses Taught: Advanced Japanese; Advanced Readings in Selected Topics on Japanese Culture; Modern Japanese Literature in English Translation: Estrangement and Familiarization; Modern Japanese Literature for Science Lovers; Readings in Modern Japanese Short Stories; Postwar Japanese Fiction

Allan Barr, Professor of Chinese

Email: allan.barr@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.621.8934
Office: Mason 219
Office Hours: MWTh 10-11

Interests: Ming and Qing literature, particularly prose narrative and fiction; memoirs and poetry relating to the Ming History inquisition of 1663; translation of work by Yu Hua and other contemporary authors
Courses Taught: Advanced Chinese; Readings in Traditional Chinese Literature; Inside the Four Treasuries; China Lost, China Found; Freshmen Critical Inquiry seminars on Chinese fiction

Eileen J. Cheng, Assistant Professor of Chinese

Email: eileen.cheng@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.607.7109
Office: Mason 208
Office Hours: Th 11-11:50, W 4-5

Interests: Modern Chinese literature and culture; mass culture and film; gender and nationalism; Lu Xun
Courses Taught: Elementary Chinese; Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese Literature; City in Literature and Film; Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese Literature

Peter Flueckiger, Assistant Professor of Japanese

Email: peter.flueckiger@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.821.8936
Office: Mason 204
Office Hours: TW 2-3 and by appointment

Interests: Tokugawa Confucianism and nativism; Tokugawa literature; premodern Japanese literary theory
Courses Taught: Elementary and Intermediate Japanese; Introduction to Classical Japanese; Pre-Modern Japanese Literature in English: Courtiers and Warriors; Playboys, Merchants, and Literati: Japanese Literature of the Tokugawa Period; Confucianism: Humaneness, Rulership, and Social Harmony; Freshmen Critical Inquiry seminars on Confucianism

Gwendolyn Liu, Visiting Instructor of Chinese

Email: gwencliu@yahoo.com, gwendolyn.liu@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.607.0717
Office: Mason 213
Not teaching Spring 2008

Interests: Teaching Chinese as a foreign language, cultural studies
Classes Taught: Elementary Chinese

Kazumi Takahashi, Adjunct Associate Professor of Japanese

Email: kazumi.takahashi@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.621.8928
Office: Mason 209
Office Hours: TTh 1-2 and by appointment
Professor Takahashi's Website

Interests: Japanese language; modern Japanese literature; Asian culture
Courses Taught: Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Japanese; Readings in Current Japanese

Tamaki Terada-Landis, Lecturer of Japanese

Email: tterada@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.607.7110
Office: Mason 218
Office Hours: MW 9:50-10:20 and by appointment

Interests: Pedagogy; course material development; sound symbolism
Courses Taught: Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Japanese

Jianhsin Wu, Adjunct Associate Professor of Chinese

Email: jianhsin.wu@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.621.8940
Office: Mason 207
Office Hours: W 2:15-3:15, Th 4:10-5:10, and by appointment

Interests: Classical Chinese novels; Modern Chinese poetry; etymology; pedagogy of teaching Chinese
Courses Taught: Elementary Chinese; Accelerated Elementary Chinese; Intermediate Chinese for Bilinguals

Hong Yao , Lecturer of Chinese

Email: hong.yao@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.621.8621
Office: Mason 212
Office Hours: TTh 11-12, W 1-2, and by appointment

Interests:
Courses Taught: Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Chinese; Accelerated Elementary Chinese; Intermediate Chinese for Bilinguals; Readings in Modern Chinese

Email: stanleigh.jones@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.607.8556
Office: 104 Baldwin House

Interests: Tokugawa literature, particularly bunraku and kabuki drama; translation of kabuki and bunraku drama and modern Japanese literature

Akiko Otsu, Kanji Instructor

Email: akiko_otsu@hotmail.com
Phone: 909.607.4031
Office: Mason 213

Interests: Issues of diversity and the experience of international students on US college campuses
Courses Taught: Kanji

Aya Nakagoshi, Japanese Language Resident

Email: aya.nakagoshi@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.621.8529
Room: Oldenborg 219

Courses Taught: Intermediate and Advanced Japanese Conversation

Xueting (Bridget) Wang, Chinese Language Resident

Email: xueting.wang@pomona.edu
Phone: 909.621.8528
Room: Oldenborg 1-S

Courses Taught: Intermediate and Advanced Chinese Conversation

last updated March 14, 2008