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Leo Rosenstein is the EALC Staff member in charge of updating this website and curating the department newsletter, among other things. She can be found working on-site in 5 Bryant Street Room 205 on Mondays and Wednesdays, and in 9 Kirkland Place Room 102...

Kassandra Diaz received her BA in Cognitive Neuroscience and Japanese Language & Culture, and her MA in Japanese from Washington University in St. Louis, where she focused on novelist Enchi Fumiko and her rebranding of folkloric tales of demonic women, or...

Amy Zhang holds a B.A. and M.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Nankai University. She received her second M.A. from Regional Studies—East Asia at Harvard University in 2019 with a focus in pre-modern Chinese literary culture. Her research...

Alina Scotti is a PhD Candidate in East Asian Arts, Film, and Cultural Studies, where she specializes in the history of media, technology, and visual culture in modern China. Her dissertation examines changes in visual and textual modes of representation...

Learning Through Peculiar Things: Knowledge and Worldview in 16-18th Century China

After obtaining a Master’s degree in Japanese literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Leah Justin-Jinich entered the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations as a PhD student at Harvard University in 2016. Her dissertation explores...