Faculty Experts- German, Russian, and East Asian Languages
Name: Joan EricsonTitle: Associate professor of Japanese
Office phone: (719) 389-6567
E-mail: jerickson@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. Columbia University, Japanese literature, 1993; Affiliated Research Student, Tokyo University, 1984-85; M. Phil. Columbia University, Japanese literature, 1984; M.A. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Japanese literature, 1981; M.A. University of Southern California, French literature, 1974; B.A. California Lutheran College, French and psychology, 1972
Came to CC in: 1996
Courses taught at CC: Japanese Women Writers; Japanese Culture; Postwar Japanese Literature; Representation of Childhood in Japan; Childhood East and West; Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Literature, Film; Manga, In the Footsteps of Japanese Pilgrimages; First and Third Year Japanese Language
Areas of expertise: Modern and classical Japanese literature, Japanese women writers; Japanese culture; Japanese representation of childhood; gender and literature; Japanese children's literature; Japanese language
Major publications: "Be a Woman:" Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women's Literature (University of Hawaii, 1997); Guest editor, special issue on teaching Asian literature, Education About Asia (2001); "Introduction" in "A Rainbow in the Desert, An Anthology of Early 20th Century Japanese Children's Literature" Translated by Yukie Ohta (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe 2001); Guest editor, special issue on Tamura Toshiko, US-Japan Women's Journal (2005).
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Traveling; cooking Japanese food
Pertinent biographical information: Lived in Japan about 20 years, including most of her childhood
Name: Hong Jiang
Title: Associate professor of Chinese
Office phone: (719) 389-6942
E-mail: hjiang@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Came to CC: 1995
Courses taught: Beginning Chinese; Intermediate Chinese; Advanced Chinese; Chinese Language and Culture (First-Year Experience course); Masterpieces of Chinese Literature in Translation; Drama and Film in China; Chinese Culture and Thought; Chinese Women's Literature; Asian American Literature; Chinese Politics in Literature (cross-listed with political science department); Asian Civilizations; Studying Asia; Senior Seminar; Chinese in China
Areas of expertise: Chinese literature; intellectual history and aesthetics; Asian culture; women writers; comparative literature
Major publications:
"The Personalization of Literature: Chinese Women's Writing in the 1990s," in Hong Jiang, ed., "The Cultural Configuration of Literature and Film in the 1990s' China: A New Perspective", Spring, 2003. "The Cultural Configuration of Literature and Film in the 1990s' China: A New Perspective", edited by Hong Jiang, special journal issue for China Review (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Spring, 2003; "Small Well Lane: A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History," translation and edited by Hong Jiang and Timothy Cheek (University of Michigan Press, 2002).
Pertinent biographical information: Born in Shanghai, China, received B.A. from Fudan University, a top university of China, in 1982
Name: Richard Koc
Title: Professor of German
Office phone: (719) 389-6518
E-mail: rkoc@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. South Dakota State University, 1972; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University, 1974, 1981
Came to CC in: 1988
Courses taught at CC: All levels of German language and literature; Freedom and Authority; Comparative Literature
Areas of expertise: Contemporary German drama; the history of the German cabaret; Thomas Mann (especially his visit to CC in 1941)
Major publications: I have published on the following German authors: Goethe, Schiller, Thomas Mann, Theodor Fontane, Eduard von Keyserling
Other areas of personal/professional interest: CC's foreign language requirement; opportunities to study abroad
Name: Armin Wishard
Title: Professor of German
Office phone: (719) 389
E-mail: awishard@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A., M.A. University of California; Ph.D. University of Oregon
Came to CC in: 1970
Courses taught at CC: German Language and Literature; The German Democratic Republic; German Romanticism
Areas of expertise: German literature; German politics and economy; the GDR
Pertinent biographical information: Native of Austria; resident of Germany for many years
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