Faculty

Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 135
860-685-2375

Chair, Asian Languages and Literatures

Professor, East Asian Studies
860-685-2375

Professor, Science in Society
860-685-2375

wjohnston@wesleyan.edu

BA Elmira College
MA Harvard University
PHD Harvard University

Office Hours:

ON LEAVE/SABBATICAL ALL YEAR 2013-2014

Research Interests:

My current research topics are: Syphilis in Early Modern Japan Warfare and State Formation in Sixteenth Century Japan The Historiography of Amino Yoshihiko

Scholarly Keywords:

Modern Japanese History

BA Miyagi Gakuin Woman's College

Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures
Fisk Hall 313
860-685-3453

Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies
Fisk Hall 313
860-685-3453

mnakamura@wesleyan.edu

BA University of California LA
MA Columbia University
PHD Stanford University

ALIT216 - 01
Screening Japanese Modernity

JAPN219 - 01
Fourth-Year Japanese

ALIT202 - 01
Japanese Horror

JAPN220 - 01
Fourth-Year Japanese

Scholarly Keywords:
Modern Japanese Literature; Fantastic Fiction, Gender Theory, Popular Culture.

Adjunct Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures
Fisk Hall 303
860-685-3458

Adjunct Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
860-685-3458

etakahashi@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Iowa
MA University of Iowa
PHD University of Pittsburgh

JAPN103 - 01
Elementary Japanese I

JAPN103 - 02
Elementary Japanese I

JAPN205 - 01
Intermediate Japanese I

JAPN217 - 01
Third-Year Japanese I

JAPN104 - 01
Elementary Japanese II

JAPN206 - 01
Intermediate Japanese II

JAPN218 - 01
Third-Year Japanese II

Office Hours:
MT 11-12, WF 2-3 (FALL 2011)

Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures
Fisk Hall 304
860-685-3457

Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies

awang01@wesleyan.edu

BA Beijing University
MA Washington University
PHD Yale University

ALIT225 - 01
Introduction to Chinese Poetry

CHIN217 - 01
Third-Year Chinese

CHIN218 - 01
Third-Year Chinese

EAST201 - 01
Pro-Seminar

BA Yale University
PHD Yale University

Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures
Fisk Hall 307
860-685-3389

Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies
Fisk Hall 307
860-685-3389

swu03@wesleyan.edu

BA Fudan University
MA Fudan University
PHD University of California LA

MA Wesleyan University

CHIN101 - 01
Chinese Character Writing

CHIN103 - 01
Elementary Chinese

CHIN103 - 02
Elementary Chinese

CHIN205 - 01
Intermediate Chinese

CHIN221 - 01
Fourth-Year Chinese

CHIN104 - 01
Elementary Chinese II

CHIN104 - 02
Elementary Chinese II

CHIN206 - 01
Intermediate Chinese

CHIN222 - 01
Fourth-Year Chinese

Office Hours:
10:00 - 12:00 am, Wednesday

BA Aichi Prefectural Women's Coll
MA Indiana University Bloomng
MA Michigan State University
PHD Indiana University Bloomng

Office Hours:
by appointment 204 Wasch Center for Retired Faculty 51 Lawn Avenue

Research Interests:
Minority writers of modern Japan Content-based instruction in JFL using literary works

Scholarly Keywords:
Modern Japanese literature
Japanese pedagogy

Academic Associations:
Association of Asian studies
Association of Teachers of Japanese
Modern Language Association

FFaculty Emerita, 2006 -

BA Wellesley College
MA Harvard University
MA Tufts University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Harvard University