Faculty Spotlight – Luluah Mustafa
As the fall semester comes to a close, it is with great excitement to announce our very own Lulu Mustafa, Lecturer and Head of the Arabic Language Program, has been chosen to serve as the Organizational Coordinator for the New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology (NERALLT). This exciting news comes after Lulu had […]
Congratulations to Professor Cathy Yeh, 2018 BU Provost’s Faculty Arts Fellow
Please join us in congratulating Professor Catherine Yeh, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature. She has been honored as BU’s 2018 Provost’s Faculty Arts Fellow for her efforts in bringing Xu Xing, a prominent Chinese writer and film maker, to BU for an Arts Initiative residency. This residency contributed to the active engagement of diversity […]
Yoon Sun Yang promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Congratulations to Professor Yoon Sun Yang on being granted tenure. Professor Yang specializes in modern Korean literature, with additional expertise in gender studies, literary translation, film, and graphic novels. She is the author of a recent book, From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea (2017) and is editor of the […]
WLL Commencement
The World Languages & Literatures Department gathered together on Sunday morning, May 20th to celebrate the commencement of our graduating seniors. In an intimate ceremony, faculty members had the opportunity to stand in front of students, families, and friends to share a collection of stories and fond memories of each of the graduates. Our student […]
Two WLL Faculty Members Granted Professional Development Leaves
Two WLL colleagues, Amber Navarre of the Chinese language program and Anna Zielinska-Elliott of the Japanese language program, have both been awarded Professional Development Leaves for next year. Zielinska-Elliott will make use of the leave to establish learning outcomes for a proposed interdepartmental MA in Translation and to conduct site visits to peer programs. If approved, the program will […]
Instructor Liling Huang Earns Full Certification to Become an Official Chinese OPI Tester
Liling Huang, lecturer in Chinese, has achieved full certification to conduct Mandarin Chinese Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPI) administered by the American Council for Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL). As written by Leah Graham, the ACTFL Associate Director of Assessment, Research, and Development: “ACTFL OPI Certification is a highly valued professional credential that is recognized nationally and […]
WLL Research Fellow, Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini, Invited to ECOTHEE 2017
Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq), WLL Research Fellow, was invited to the 5th International Conference on Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics, ECOTHEE 2017, at the Orthodox Academy of Crete in Greece from October 23rd to 27th, 2017. This international conference was organized by the World Council of Churches and Orthodox Academic of Crete to engage […]
Welcome, Dr. Xin Wei, to World Languages & Literatures and the BU Center for the Humanities!
Dr. Xin Wei is joining us this year as the Korean Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in WLL. She completed her PhD in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, with a focus on Korea. After taking her undergraduate degree in China, she has had extensive experience studying and researching in Korea and Japan. Her work focuses […]
Welcome, Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq)!
Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq) is a Research Fellow in the Department of World Languages & Literatures. Originally from Afghanistan, he received his PhD in 2009 from the Allameh Tabatabai University, Iran, in the field of comparative philosophy. He has been affiliated with Princeton University, George Washington University and The Catholic University of America, before […]
Congratulations to our Seniors!
The World Languages & Literatures Department gathered together on a sunny Sunday morning, May 21st to celebrate the commencement of our graduating seniors. In an intimate ceremony, faculty members had the opportunity to stand in front of students, families, and friends to share a collection of stories and fond memories of each of the graduates. […]