Faculty Notes (1998)
Victoria Cass, Associate Professor of Chinese, will publish "The Fantastic as True: Ghost Stories of the Ming" in Story and Song, from the University of California Press. She wrote the overview essay on "Women in Asian Religions" for the Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions, to be published this year, and her review of Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China by Suzanne Cahill appeared in the Journal of Chinese Religion. She presented a paper at the conference of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society held here this year.
In June 1997, Howard Goldblatt, Professor of Chinese, delivered the keynote address at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Chinese PEN in Taipei. He also gave addresses and papers at Connecticut College, Middlebury College, and at an NEH symposium in Cloudcroft, NM. In October he judged a national translation contest in Taipei. In February he was a juror for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, sponsored by World Literature Today. Professor Goldblatt's translations of Silver City by Li Rui (Henry Holt) and Rose, Rose, I Love You by Wang Chen-ho (Columbia UP) were published in 1998. Both have received strong reviews in Publishers Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere.
Joyce Wong Kroll, Instructor of Chinese, jointly presented a paper, with Michelle Low, M.A. candidate in Chinese, at the Colorado Congress of Foreign Languages Teachers annual spring conference, in Colorado Springs. Kyoko Saegusa, Senior Instructor of Japanese, Kuan-yi Rose Chang, Director of the ALTEC Center, and Jeremy Robinson, M.A. student in Japan also presented papers at this February 1998 gathering of language teachers.
Paul W. Kroll, Professor of Chinese, published four articles in AY 1997-1998: "On 'Far Roaming'" (Journal of the American Oriental Society); "Li Po's Inscription for the Great Bell of the Hua-ch'eng Monastery" (T'ang Studies); "Li Po's Purple Haze" (Taoist Resources); and "Lexical Landscapes and Textual Mountains in the High T'ang" (T'oung Pao ). He presented scholarly papers at the Western Branch meeting of the American Oriental Society (October 1997) and at the Society's national meeting (April 1998). He was recently elected to a two-year term as vice-president of the Western Branch of the AOS.
An article by Stephen Miller (Assistant Professor of Japanese), "Religious Boundaries in Aesthetic Domains: The Formation of a Buddhist Category (Shakkyo-ka) in the Imperial Poetry Anthologies," appeared in the Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies (summer 1997). Another article, "The 'Reunion' of History and Popular Culture: Japan 'Comes Out' on TV," will appear in Popular Culture. Professor Miller has received a Japan Foundation Research Fellowship to research the seventh imperial poetry anthology, the Senzaish. He will spend the 1998-1999 academic year at Tokyo University.
Misae Nishikura, Senior Instructor of Japanese, organized the Japanese Speech Conteset for high-school and college students from around the state in May 1997. She is the recipient of a Technology in the Classroom grant from the President's Office for development of interactive computer-assisted language teaching programs.
Laurel Rasplica Rodd, Department Chair and Professor of Japanese, was an invited participant at an international conference in Japan entitled "Japanese Language Education: Networking for the Global Age." Other participants were the presidents of the Japanese teachers' organizations of South Korea, China, and Italy. Professor Rodd, who is President of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, was also the recipient of the Scholarship Award of the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers for her "contributions and dedication to the teaching profession."
Kyoko Saegusa, Senior Instructor of Japanese, read papers at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, the Colorado Conference of Foreign Language Teachers, and at "Talking Across Differences," A Feminist Symposium, in Boulder. She gave a half-day workshop on "Initiation into a New Language: The Silent Way" at the SWCOLT in Arizona.
Stephen Snyder, Assistant Professor of Japanese, has been selected to participate in a seminar on "Beauty and Its Discontents" sponsored by the Humanities Center. The seminar, consisting of four faculty members, four graduate students, and four undergraduates, will meet during the 1998-99 academic year, culminating in a symposium in the spring. His book e and Beyond: Studies in Con- temporary Japanese Literature (co-edited with Philip Gabriel) will be published by the Univ. of Hawaii Press in fall 1998. Snyder's Fictions of Desire. The Novels of Nagai Kaf won the Kayden prize for the best book manuscript on the Boulder campus.
Madeline K. Spring, Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Chinese, published an article, "T'ang Landscapes of Exile," in the Journal of the American Oriental Society. She presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society and spoke at the Inter-University Program in Taipei. She is a recipient of a summer fellowship in Taiwan, supported by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.
Kumiko Takahara, Associate Professor of Japanese, presented a paper in March at a workshop in Tokyo sponsored by Keio University in Tokyo and the University of Edinburgh. The paper was published in both English and Japanese. She is a recipient of a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund (CLPEF) grant for a book manuscript on "Newspaper Portrayals of the Japanese American Internment in Colorado."
Minglang Zhou, Assistant Professor of Chinese, has received grants from the Graduate School for research on the Chinese government's language policy for ethnic minorities in the summers of 1997 and 1998. He published papers in Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies and Journal of Chinese Teaching in the World and presented papers at conferences at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, Michigan State University, the University of Texas, and in Spain. He also gave invited talks on research in classrooms at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing and Zhongshou University in Guangzhou.