Teaching East Asian Literature in the High School
East Asian Studies Center Summer Workshop
Indiana University - Bloomington
July 13-19, 2008

2008 Specialists and Consultants

	Andra Alvis (MA in Classical Japanese literature, PhD in modern Japanese literature from UC Berkley. Formerly Assistant Professor at Indiana University, currently an independent scholar). Specializes in fantastic literature and psychoanalytic and feminist theory.
	Cecilia Boyce, National Board Certified Teacher, Hillsborough High School, Tampa, FL. Teaches world literature in the International Baccalaureate Program. Acting as our curriculum consultant for her seventh year.
	Ann Choi (Assistant Professor, Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers). She teaches Korean language, literature, and culture. Her interests include Korean and English poetry and comparative literature
	Kai-wing Chow (Professor, Departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures and History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). He specializes in intellectual and cultural history of Ming Ch'ing China. His current research focuses on the social history of popular religions and intellectual developments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
	Sean Kim (Assistant Professor, Department of History and Anthropology at the University of Central Missouri). Specializes in modern Korean religious and cultural history, with research interests in Protestant missionaries, popular religion, and colonialism.
	Scott O'Bryan (Assistant Professor, Departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures and History at Indiana University). Research interests include twentieth-century Japan, economic nationalism, consumption and consumer culture, environmental history, peace thought and practice.
	Gary Xu (Associate Professor, Departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). Specializes in modern literature, cinema, and critical theory. Interests include transnationalism and trans-ethnic representations and the impact of neoliberalism on China’s transition to a globalized consumer society.