Student & Alumni News

Matthew Eynon (Ph.D. in EALC, 1992) was promoted to professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at Tenri University in Japan.

Following are his recent publications:

Matthew J. Eynon and Kanchanawan Nitaya. Learning Thai: A Unique and Practical Approach. Bangkok: Odeon Book Store, 2003. This publication is now in its second printing.

Matthew J. Eynon and Patricia A. Kataoka. Learning Language Through Lyrics. Volume 2: More Classical Japanese Pop Songs. Tokyo: Bonjinsha, 2004.

Ancient Tales of Tenri Translated by Matthew J. Eynon and Toshimasa Kayama. Tenri, Japan: Jihosha, 2005.

Matthew J. Eynon and Ram Kumar Panday. Learning Language Through Lyrics: Nepali Film Songs. Kathmandu: Nepal-Nippon Research Centre, 2005.

Eynon is working on a second volume of Learning Language Through Lyrics: Nepali Film Songs, with an expected publication date in 2006.

Bill Farge (Ph.D. in EALC, 1997) has been teaching at Loyola University in New Orleans. Following Hurricane Katrina several EASC members expressed concern over their inability to contact him. After publishing a notice in the fall newsletter requesting information, Professor Sumie Jones received the following email.

Dear Sumie,
I just saw the online edition of the EASC newsletter which reported that people from IU had been trying to contact me. I evacuated New Orleans the day before the hurricane hit, stayed a week in Grand Coteau, LA, a week in Houston, and then went to Washington DC where I am now. I am at Georgetown University staying with the Jesuits here and doing research and writing. I am planning to go back to N.O. December 15.
Give my regards to everyone there.
Bill

Susan Furukawa (Ph.D. in EALC) presented the paper “The Critique of Umu-sei in Late Heian Fiction” at the Midwest Conference for Asian Affairs at Michigan State University in September.

Also in September she presented the paper “Landscapes Imagined and Remembered in Endo Shusaku” at the Western Conference Association for Asian Studies at the University of Denver.

Travel to these conferences was made possible by grants from the Graduate Professional and Student Organization (GPSO), the College of Arts and Sciences (COAS), and the East Asian Studies Center (EASC).

Shu-wei Hsieh (Ph.D. in EALC, 2005) received an appointment as a Fellow at Academia Sinica in Taipei. The appointment is for at least one year.

Margaret Key (Ph.D. in EALC, 2005) has an essay titled “‘Destroying the Audience's Alibi': Empathy and Ethics in Abe Kobo's Mihitsu no koi” forthcoming in Modern Japanese Drama (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

Geoff Waters (Ph.D. in EALL, 1980) published the following articles:

"Du Fu as Literary Critic: ‘Six Quatrains Written in Jest'” in CipherJournal:
http://www.cipherjournal.com/html/waters_xiwei.html.

"Some Notes on Translating Classical Chinese Poetry” in CipherJournal 's Forum on Chinese Poetry Translation:
http://www.cipherjournal.com/html/forum.html.

"The Lives of the Palace Women in Tang Quatrains,” Renditions 64 (November 2005), [in which Waters authored the introduction and translated forty poems].

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