Faculty News

Emeritus Professor Paul W. Kroll has published a new book, The Poetry of Meng Haoran , in De Gruyter's Library of Chinese Humanities series. This is the first complete translation into any language of all of the poetry of Meng Haoran (689-740), one of the most famous poets of the...

Congratulations to Sangbok Kim for completing his five year text book project that started back in 2017. Anytime Korean is an interactive and engaging textbook series ( Beginning 1 , Beginning 2 , Intermediate 1 , Intermediate 2 ) that provides powerful practices for quickly acquiring listening, speaking, reading, and...

Antje Richter , Associate Professor of Chinese, is the current president of the Early Medieval China Group . The Early Medieval China Group was established to promote the communications between scholars who focus on the Early Medieval period in East Asia. The group publishes Early Medieval China , the only...

Levi Thompson , Assistant Professor of Arabic, was recently interviewed by the popular literary website ArabLit about his work translating the Syro-Palestinian poet Ramy al-Asheq, who now lives in Germany. You can read the interview by Tugrul Mende . Ever Since I Did Not Die , a book of essays...

For over 30 years the Graduate School has awarded Graduate Part-Time Instructor Teaching Excellence Awards. This year, the Graduate School is awarding GPTI Appreciation Awards to recognize those who have risen to the challenge presented by teaching during the pandemic. Congratulations to Kun You , a PhD Student in Chinese,...

Congratulations to Antje Richter for being chosen as a winner of the 2019-2020 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award ! Sponsored by the Graduate School, this award recognizes outstanding mentorship of graduate students and contributions to graduate education.

“By closely examining the maps, we get a chance to touch and feel the paper, ink, and other details on the maps that would not be easily accessed anywhere else,” Graduate student Shuran Jiang said. Graduate students from Assistant Professor of Chinese Katherine Alexander ’s course, “Topics in Early Modern...

“The students who took advantage of this opportunity had a good experience. Some of the freshmen told me that they had no idea about the amount and variety of resources available to them at the library. The upperclassmen in the other course reported that the experience helped them figure out...

Congratulations to Mona Attwa for being selected as one of this year's winners of the Best Should Teach Gold Award for for excellence in teaching and for outstanding contributions to improving higher education at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Best Should Teach initiative was established in 1996 and is...

The Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations celebrated Professor Paul W. Kroll on the occasion of his retirement on Tuesday, April 30th. He has been with the departement since its inception and has contributed to the success of the department tremendeously as a scholar, administrator, teacher and mentor. We enjoyed...