Faculty News

Congratulations, Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese Yingjie Li , Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese Runqing Qi , and Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese Yu Zhang , for being selected for the 2024 Open Educator Award! This award is given for their work to enhance student learning and supporting the advancement...

Congratulations, Sangbok Kim , Teaching Professor of Korean, for being selected the 2024 ASSETT Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award ! This award is presented to an Arts & Sciences faculty member (of any rank) who has been nominated by their peers and/or students. Awardees have a record of excellence...

Thirteen previously published essays by Prof. Paul W. Kroll have been collected into a book and translated into Chinese by a group of his former students and graduates of our department. The book, titled Xunyuan yu wuma 馴鳶與舞馬 (Tamed Kite and Dancing Horses), has been published by Nanjing University Press...

On April 25th 2022, the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations held a retirement celebration in honor of: Chun-ling Hsu , Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese, Faye Kleeman , Professor of Japanese, and Terry Kleeman , Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies. Each of them has a long dedicated teaching,...

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...

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.

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...