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Recent Publications

From linguistics to manga to masks, department faculty have been busy publishing work in international journals and receiving awards for their scholarship.

Faculty Fellowships and Awards

Professor Kaori Idemaru is the recipient of the Hakuhodo Foundation 16th Japanese Research Fellowship, for her research project, “Acoustic Factors Predicting Foreign Accent in Second Language Japanese and its Social and Affective Consequences” (2021). She will be doing research in Japan at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics in Tokyo.

Professor Nayoung Kwon is the recipient of a Korean Studies Grant for her research project, “When Words Sound Small and Happy.”

Professor Luke Habberstad is the recipient of the Center for Chinese Studies Research Grant, National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan (May-July, 2021). He will be working on his research project, “Water Control and Political Culture in Early Imperial China”.

Professor Rachel DiNitto was awarded the 2021 UO Sustainability Award for Excellence in Teaching for her class, Japanese Environmental Cinema. She will also be a UO Sustainability Fellow for 2021-22.

Professor Zhuo Jing-Schmidt was awarded the UO Open Access APC Fund Award for peer-reviewed journal article publication in PLOS One, “#MaskOn! #MaskOff! Digital polarization of mask-wearing in the United States during COVID-19 – PLOS.”

Faculty Publications

Rachel DiNitto

  • Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies. (forthcoming August 2024). This is the first volume dedicated to a multi-genre analysis of environmental themes in Japanese cinema from 1954-2020.
  • “Envisioning Nuclear Futures: Shiriagari Kotobuki’s Manga from Hope to Despair.” In Roman Rosenbaum, ed., The Representation of Japanese Politics in Manga: The Visual Literacy of Statecraft. London: Routledge, 2021.
  • 「汚染の言説としての「狂気」―チェルノブイリとフクシマにおける汚染のナラティブをめぐって」(Insanity as Toxic Discourse: Narratives of Pollution in Chernobyl and Fukushima). In Saeko Kimura and Ann Bayard-Sakai, eds., 『世界文学としての＜震災後文学＞』(Postdisaster Fiction as World Literature). Tokyo: Akashi shoten, 2021.

Maram Epstein

  • “Li Zhi’s Strategic Self-Fashioning: Sketch of a Filial Self,” pp. 38-52. Pauline Lee, Rivi
  • Handler-Spitz, Haun Saussy eds., The Objectionable Li Zhi: Fiction, Syncretism, and Dissent in Late Ming China. University of Washington Press, 2020.
  • “The Argument for a Woman’s Authorship of the Hou Honglou meng.” Nan nü 22.2 (2020): 223-264.
  • “Redefining Filial Piety as an Emotion,” pp. 269-313. Yuri Pines and Waiyee Li eds., Keywords. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020.

Luke Habberstad

  • “Leaking Rulers and Confidential Officials: Secrecy and Status in Early Chinese Political Culture.” Journal of Chinese History 8(1), 1-22. The article is open access, see here. 
  • “A Government in Verse: Bureaucratic Aesthetics and Voice in Han and Post-Han Admonitions (zhen 箴). Oriens-Extremus 57 (2018-2019; in print: 12/16/2020), 231-66.

Kaori Idemaru

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and Her Team

  • Jun Lang & Z. Jing-Schmidt. 2024. The blurry lines between popular media and party propaganda: China’s convergence culture through a linguistic lens. PLOS ONE 19(1): e0297499. This article is open access.
  • Grammatical surprise: on the cognitive affective mechanism of linguistic dramaticity. 《当代语言学》 [Contemporary Linguistics] 26(3), 317-335. 2024.
  • Hung, Steffi H. Manual action motivates networked meanings of a productive construction in Mandarin: Rethinking polysemy. Chinese Language & Discourse. Online First Publication.
  • Lang, Jun. Teaching and Learning Bei-Constructions: A Usage-Based Constructionist Approach. Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching 6, 27-57. 2021
  • Lang, Jun. Neological cancer metaphors in the Chinese cyberspace: Uses and social  meanings. Chinese Language and Discourse 11(2), 261-282. 2020
  • Jun Lang, Wesley W. Erickson, & Z. Jing-Schmidt. #MaskOn! #MaskOff! Digital polarization of mask-wearing in the United States during COVID-19. PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250817 (Open Access): 2021
  • Huijing Wang, Heidi H. Shi, Z. Jing-Schmidt. Affective stance in constructional idioms:A usage-based constructionist approach to Mandarin [yòu X yòu Y]. Journal of Pragmatics 177, 29-50. 2021
  • Metonymy: mental simplism and our best and worst instincts. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8(1), 138-157. 2021
  • Ying Chen & Z. Jing-Schmidt. Chinese LVS constructions: Noncanonical word order and information status. Modern Foreign Languages 44(3), 372-383. 2021
  • Heidi H. Shi, Sophia Xiaoyu Liu, & Z. Jing-Schmidt. “Manual action metaphors in Chinese: A usage-based constructionist study”. In B. Basciano, F. Gatti, & A. Morbiato (eds.), 111-130. Corpus-based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics [Sinica Venetiana 6]. Venice, Italy: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari University Press. DOI 10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/004 (Open Access): 2020
  • Heidi H. Shi & Z. Jing-Schmidt. Little cutie one piece: An innovative human classifier and its social indexicality in Chinese digital culture. Chinese Language & Discourse 11(1), 31-54.2020

Jina Kim

  • Jina E. Kim and Woohyung Chon (Eds.). 2024. “Rethinking the Art of the Contact Zone.” Spec. Issue of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol 25, Issue 2) (co-edited volume and sole author of introduction).  
  • “Korean Radio Dramas: Mid-century Melodramatic Voice Performance.” In the Oxford Handbook of Radio and Podcasting. Ed. M. Hilmes & A. Bottomley. Oxford UP.
  • “The Sonic Unconscious and the Wartime Radio Novel in Colonial Korea,” 275-291. In Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature. Ed. Yoon Sun Yang. London: Routledge, 2020.
  • “Broadcasting Solidarity Across the Pacific: Reimagining the Tongp’o in Take Me Home and the Free Chol Soo Lee Movement.” The Journal of Asian Studies 79.4 (November 2020): 891-910
  • Suh, Kyung-sik. 2024. “Landscape of Borders-Some Fragmentary Thoughts.” Translated by Jina E. Kim. Inter-Asia cultural studies 25(2), 161–170.
  • Jina E. Kim. 2024. “Korean Radio Dramas: Mid-century Melodramatic Voice Performance.” In the Oxford 

Nayoung Kwon

  • Sturt, P., & Kwon, N. (2023). Agreement attraction in comprehension: do active dependencies and distractor position play a role? Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39(3), 279–301. 
  • Siegelman, N. et al. (2022). Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO). Behavior research methods, 54(6), 2843–2863. 
  • Zhang, A., & Kwon, N. (2022). The interpretational preferences of null and overt pronouns in Chinese. Journal of Linguistics, 58(3), 649–676. 
  • Kwon, N. (2022). The Processing of a Long-Distance Dependency in Korean: An Overview. In S. Cho & J. Whitman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics (pp. 458–486). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Kwon, N. (2020). The processing of a long-distance dependency in Korean: An overview. The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics. 

Glynne Walley

Yugen Wang

  • 萬里江湖憔悴身: 陳與義南奔避亂詩研究. Translated by Dr. Zhou Rui 周睿. 上海古籍出版社 [Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House]. This is the Chinese version of Prof. Wang’s recent book, Writing Poetry, Surviving War: The Works of Refugee Scholar-Official Chen Yuyi (1090–1139) (Cambria Press, 2020). 2024.
  • Writing Poetry, Surviving War: The Works of Refugee Scholar-Official Chen Yuyi (1090-1139). Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2020.