Chinese Faculty
Chinese Section Coordinator
PENG, Yun
Associate Professor
Moore Hall 363
Phone: (808) 956-2058
Email: pengy@hawaii.edu
JIANG, Li ‘Julie’Associate Professor
Associate Director, Chinese Language Flagship
Moore Hall 359
Phone:(808) 956-2055
Email:lijiang@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Syntax, Semantics, Syntax-semantics interface, Language universals and variation, Comparative linguistics, Chinese linguistics (Chinese dialects, minority languages, and sign languages), Language acquisition
JIANG, SongAssociate Professor
Director, Chinese Language Flagship
Moore Hall 357
Phone: (808) 956-2087
Email: sjiang@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Chinese Linguistics, Lexical Semantics, Cognitive linguistics, Teaching pedagogy, Technology in language teaching and learning
Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature, Chinese film, Literary criticism, Film studies, Gender and sexuality
SPRING, MadelineProfessor
Moore 388
Phone: (808) 956-8780
(808) 956-2071
Email: mkspring@hawaii.edu On leave for Spring 2022
Research Interests: Pedagogy: Second language acquisition, Chinese for Special Purposes (CSP), Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC), teacher training and mentoring, computer-based instruction, assessment, and online communities. Literature: Six Dynasties and Tang fiction, Tang-Song prose and rhetoric.
WANG, HaidanGraduate Chair
Associate Professor
Placement Coordinator
Moore Hall 355
Phone: (808) 956-2053
Email: haidan@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: L2 Chinese pedagogy and acquisition, Curriculum design and development, Assessment and evaluation, Chinese for specific and professional purposes, Pragmatics
Research Interests: Language assessment and evaluation, Teaching and pedagogical strategies, Sociolinguistics, Chinese for specific and professional purposes
YUE, Ming-BaoAssociate Professor
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) Director from Aug 2021 – 2024
Moore Hall 201
Phone: (808) 956-7047
Email: mingbao@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: 20th-century Chinese literature, film, and culture, Cultural constructions of “Chineseness, Representations of the Chinese diaspora in film and literature, Asian American literature and film, Literary theory and criticism, Theories of ideology and representation, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Feminism, Transnational Chinese Popular Culture
Japanese Faculty
Japanese Section Coordinator
KANNO, Kazue
Associate Professor
Moore Hall 385
Phone: (808) 956-7113
Email: kanno@hawaii.edu
COOK, Haruko
Professor
Japanese Linguistics Coordinator
Moore Hall 362
Phone: (808) 956-2057
Email: hkcook@hawaii.edu
Will be on Sabbatical Leave for FALL 2022 – Spring 2023
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, Language Socialization, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
CURRY, Stewart
Instructor
Instructor
Research Interests: Ryukyuan and Japanese language history, diachronic and areal variation, phonology, Okinawan language documentation and preservation, Japanese and Okinawan language pedagogy, Lexicography
Research Interests: Japanese Pedagogy, Dialogism and Sociocultural Theory in L2 Instruction, Classroom Practices
Assistant Professor
Japanese Literature Coordinator
Moore Hall 360
Phone: (808) 956-2056
Email: andreh@hawaii.edu
Japanese Literature Coordinator
Moore Hall 360
Phone: (808) 956-2056
Email: andreh@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Narratives of empire, nation, and colony (Korea) in modern Japanese literature (Meiji-Taishō-Shōwa), Representations of Korean anticolonial resistance in Japanese popular colonial discourse and visual culture, Affect studies, terror, and colonial discourse, Genre studies: fictions of crime, detection, and terror, Postcolonial legacies of Japanese imperialism
Research Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, Conversation Analysis, Social Network Analysis
Research Interests: Language Pedagogy, Pragmatics
Research Interests: Japanese SLA, Pedagogical Grammar, Language analysis
KONDO-BROWN, Kimi
Professor
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Arts, Languages & Letters (CALL)
Bilger 101/Hawaii Hall 314
Phone: (808) 956-8516
Email: kondo@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Japanese and heritage language education and assessment
Research Interests: Japanese language pedagogy
MURAYAMA, Emi
Instructor
Japanese Language Coordinator
Lincoln Annex 1, Room 3
Phone: (808) 956-5200
Email: emim@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Language and social interaction (CA perspective), Business discourse, Foreign language pedagogy
Research Interests: Pragmatics, Japanese language pedagogy, Classroom discourse, Conversation analysis, Translation and interpreting
TOMMASI, Pier Carlo
Assistant Professor
Moore Hall 387
Phone: (808) 956-7283
Email: tommasi@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Classical and medieval Japanese poetry; Gender, agency, and selfhood in premodern Japan; Samurai culture; Medievalism; Sinosphere studies
Research Interests: Japanese language pedagogy
Research Interests: Modern Japanese Literature, Japanese Christian novelists and their reception in Japan
YOSHIMI, Dina
Associate Professor
Director, Hawaii Language Roadmap Initiative
Moore Hall 361
Phone: (808) 956-2077
Email: dinar@hawaii.edu
Korean Faculty
Korean Section Coordinator
KROLIKOSKI, David
Assistant Professor
Moore Hall 386
Phone: (808) 956-2233
Email: dkroli@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Korean sociolinguistics, Pedagogy, Second Language acquisition
CHEON, Sang-YeeAssociate Professor
Director, Korean Language Flagship Center
Moore Hall 352
Phone: (808) 956-2054
Email: scheon@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Korean linguistics, Phonetics, and phonology, Second language acquisition, Content-based instruction: Curriculum and assessment, Teaching Korean language and culture through media (films, ads, and news, etc.)
Research Interests: Syntax, Korean linguistics, Manchu, Syntax-semantics interface
Research Interests: Discourse-functional linguistics, Conversation analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Grammaticalization, and Korean language pedagogy
Research Interests: Modern Korean Poetry, Translation Studies, Poetics, Postcolonial Theory, Transnational Literature
KIM, Mary Shin
Associate Chair
Associate Professor
Moore Hall 392
Phone: (808) 956-2074
Email: maryskim@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Discourse-functional linguistics, Conversation analysis, Korean language pedagogy, Pragmatics
Research Interests: Korean linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse analysis, Korean pedagogy
PARK, Mee-JeongAssociate Professor
EALL Chair
Moore Hall 353
Phone: (808) 956-2052
Email: meejeong@hawaii.edu
Will be on Sabbatical Leave for FALL 2022
Research Interests: Functional grammar, Discourse Analysis, Intonation, Instructional technology