Faculty Achievements in 2024!
Join us in congratulating many of our faculty members on their achievements in 2024!
Ga Young Chung
“This is What We Wanted to Learn”: Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Education with 1st Gen Korean American Seniors in a Time of Asian Hate and Racialized Dread. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 46(1): 118-134.
Beyond Perseverance: Developing Academic Resilience for a Better Normal. In Priya Goel, Jonathan Simmons, and Smridhi Marwah (Ed.), Building a Better Normal: Visions of Schools of Education in a Post-Pandemic World. Emerald Publishing. (Coauthored with Priya et al.)
2024 Emerging Scholar Award, Global Studies Research Network
2024 Ewha Global Fellow, Ewha Womans University
2024-2025 Academy of Korean Studies ($11,750)
Research Grant, Principal Investigator, “South Korea: After 20 Years of Transition to a ‘Multicultural’ Society”
Research Grant, Principal Investigator, “South Korea: After 20 Years of Transition to a ‘Multicultural’ Society”
Sheldon Lu
Sheldon Lu, co-editor with Zhang Longxi. Comparative Literature and China: Methods and Perspectives. A special issue, Journal of World Literature 9.2 (May 2024).
Sheldon Lu gave lectures on the topic of "East-West Comparative Literary Studies: Change, Continuity, Innovation, and Renewal" at Renmin University in Beijing, and at Hebei Normal University in Shijiazhuang, China, in July 2024
Michael Dylan Foster
The Book of Yōkai, Expanded Second Edition (UC Press, 2024): https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-book-of-yokai-expanded-second-edition/paper
Three new episodes of a television series he has been doing for NHK World called “YŌKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore.” They can be viewed here:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/3022056/ (Namikozō)
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/3022057/ (Ubume)
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/3022058/ (Mujina)
Cuihua Shen
Elected as a Fellow of the International Communication Association in June 2024