Chinese and Japanese Faculty
Chair
Professor
Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature
Email: fengjin@grinnell.edu
Jin Feng is Professor of Chinese and Japanese, and Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at Ƶ. She teaches all levels of Chinese language courses and on Chinese literature and culture. Specific classes include “Chinese Women: Past and Present,” “Modern China through...
Visiting Instructor
Email: chenx@grinnell.edu
Professor Xuan Chen (PhD, Nanjing University) is engaged in English teaching, second language acquisition, applied English linguistics, education and translation. Her main research interest lies in foreign language acquisition via reading. She enjoys reading English and Chinese contemporary novels...
Visiting Instructor
Email: kanokoy@grinnell.edu
My teaching and research interests center on Japanese language education, inclusive education, and intercultural learning. I am especially interested in how language education can foster inclusive learning environments where students from diverse backgrounds can participate meaningfully, engage with...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: leejae@grinnell.edu
Jaehyuk Lee’s research focuses on premodern Chinese literature, its reception in Korea, and its afterlives in modern media. He examines how literary texts, historical figures, and cultural symbols are reinterpreted across historical, cultural, and medial contexts, from premodern China to...
Assistant Professor
Email: seongeun@grinnell.edu
Eun Young Seong is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Ƶ. Her research examines cultural interactions between Koreans and Japanese in the process of decolonization across a range of media, including literature, theater, film, and performance...
Assistant Professor
Email: wakitas@grinnell.edu
Saori Wakita is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese at Ƶ. She is interested in Japanese linguistics, bilingualism, and second language acquisition. Her research investigates how learning a second language impacts the native language, especially among Japanese-English late...