Alumni
EALL Courses Open to Alumni Auditors
CHIN 111-112 Chinese Literature in Translation
JAPN 111-112 Japanese Literature in Translation
KOR 111-112 Korean Literature in Translation
Please attend the first class session and speak with the professor to obtain approval.
Alumni Updates
Maxim Brown (2008) is teaching English as Assistant Language Teacher in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. His blog is found here.
Michael Wert (1996, Japanese Language and Literature minor) recently got a tenure-track assistant professor position in Japanese history at Marquette University.
Erin Lau (2007, Japanese Language and Literature), who is a starting MA candidate for Japanese literature at the University of Hawaii, says that she received a Graduate Assistantship, a rare feat for a MA candidate, thanks to the excellent preparation that Prof. Hanami of the GW Japanese program provided.
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Richard A. Pegg, who earned a BA in Chinese Language and Literature and MA in East Asian Studies with Concentration in Chinese and Japanese Literature, went on to earn a PhD in East Asian art history at Columbia University. Now he serves as Curator of Asian Art for the MacLean Collection, Chicago, and frequently lectures at major museums on aspects of Asian art. |
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Drew Burns (2006 Chinese Language and Literature major) is completing his M.A. in Chinese Language and Culture from the Ohio State University while working at a company called Vtion Wireless in Beijing. |
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Christopher Keyashian (2006, Japanees Language and Literature) is currently teaching English in the City of Gujo, Gifu. |
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Robert Ogburn (1985), joined the Foreign Service and was posted to Korea from 1988-1993, and again from 2005-until now. Robert says that studying Korean is well worth the investment in time if one is thinking of a career in Asia. He is currently Acting Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs at Foreign Service. In this photo, he is admiring the reconstructed skeleton of a dinosaur in the library lobby of Bukyoung University in Busan, February 2008. |
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Alaric Radosh (1983, Chinese Language and Literature) is teaching Chinese at the Fairfax Academy in Virginia. He served as Director of the 2007 Chinese Immersion Summer Camp for Fairfax County Public Schools. |
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Wendy Schultz (2000, Japanese Language and Literature), who went to Stanford after graduating from GW, has been working in database sales/marketing for the last five years. She recently started (and finished) her first full marathon in Miami. |
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Alison Alverez (2004, Japanese Language and Literature) and Clark Munson (2004) got married in September, 2007 in Pittsburgh, where Alison is a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon and Clark is a translator. |