Pedagogical Innovation and Development Excellence Award
Ruohmei Hsieh, our Chinese Academic Coordinator, is the inaugural
recipient of the Pedagogical Innovation and Development Excellence Award for 2020-21, a newly instituted award in the School of Humanities.
Hu Ying, Professor of Chinese, participated in the recent podcast 'Literature Out Loud' on the Chinese author Xue Yiwei, whose book Traveling with Marco Polo she is translating.
Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship
Kristina Horn just received the Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship, one of only two given campus-wide.
Fulbright Fellowship
Sara Newsome and Adam Reynolds received the prestigeous Fulbright Fellowships and are heading off to Japan in the fall.
This Women's History Month, meet UCI women who are shaping the future
Is the ocean the next frontier for humanities research? What happens if we embrace the ocean as a medium of exchange? Nature : Mono, an Environmental Humanities Podcast, asks these questions in its first season, titled "Oceanic Japan." Join Jon L Pitt, Assistant Professor as he interviews a range of academic scholars who engage with the notion of "Oceanic Japan." Visit: naturemono.com
2021 is the Year of the Ox. We invite you to join us to virtually celebrate the 2021 Lunar New Year event, put together by students and instructors in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. We hope you enjoy the video and wishing you a wonderful New Year!
Litzy Santoyo, a Korean literature and culture major, shares why her studies are critical to building cultural understanding and to becoming a global citizen.
Students of Professor Hu Ying share their observations and experiences of Covid-19 with future generations in view of the challenges it presents to their reality of daily living.
About the Department
The Department of East Asian Studies at UCI brings both theoretical sophistication and scholarly rigor to the study of the literatures and cultures of East Asia.
The department focuses on China, Korea, and Japan but also stresses the larger regional and global dynamics of transformation in which these cultures participate.
