Welcome to the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures. This is a dynamic department with faculty, graduate students and undergraduates engaged in intellectual inquiries that bridge area studies and an array of humanities and social science disciplines. A department that has featured renowned anthropologists, historians, linguists, literary scholars, and scholars of religion for two decades, our work is marked by its rigor, innovation, and interdisciplinarity.
The 21st century has been called both the Asian Century and the Global Century. Either way, EALC is at the forefront of research that will lead all of us head-first into a future that is both exciting and full of challenges.
What are the global social trends that are changing the families of Korea and the rest of East Asia as we speak? What do the films coming out of China say about the new China and its relevance for all of us? How are history, literary legend, and religion bound up with the themes that dominate animation and other features of Japanese culture so popular today? How might we study conversation, pronunciation, or cognitive issues to foster better learning of Chinese and Japanese? How have concerns about ethnicity and gender shaped notions of nationality in both borderlands of China but also in societies such as early modern Korea? How have imperialism and literature been interwoven in modern East Asia? Why are religions like Buddhism and Christianity so prominent throughout East Asia in our day? How can the latest technology be deployed to cultivate a network of artistic interaction between Japanese and American people? Our departmental mission calls us to grasp the vast history of the societies of East Asia as we take a hard look at where these societies are and where they�re going�and how, based on that knowledge, Americans might respond.
Take a look at our initiatives, graduate and undergraduate programs, and events calendar to learn a bit more about why EALC is a leader in the humanities. We�re here not merely to serve the students, community, and country: we�re here to lead�evidenced in part by the millions of dollars in grants we have acquired for our research over the past few years, our ongoing archival research, and the many books and articles we have published in the meantime; Evidenced as well by the graduates of our graduate program, who teach at major universities from Massachusetts to California to Hong Kong.
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