Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Dr. Madeline Chu, Director

Madeline Chu, who received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona, is Endowed Chair Professor of Chinese Language and Literature. She is author of Expanded Lyricism and Patterns and Exercises, and numerous articles and reviews on classical and modern Chinese literature and language pedagogy. She is editor of Mapping the Course of the Chinese Language Field and, co-editor of the 2001 Linguistics Study Supplement: Proceedings of the International Conference on Chinese Pedagogy. Her recent research focuses on seventeenth century Chinese literature and culture. Dr. Chu served as the President of ASIANetwork, the President and Executive Director of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, and is currently the Director of ASIANetwork Freeman Programs and a Vice President of the International Society for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. She received the A. Ronald Walton Award for Distinguished Contributions to the field of Chinese language Pedagogy in 2000, and the Florence J. Lucasse Lectureship for Excellence in Teaching in 2002.
Office Address: Chinese Program, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006
Office Phone: 269-337-7325
Office Fax: 269-337-7251
Email: chu@kzoo.edu

 

Dr. Guoqi Xu , Associate Director

Guoqi Xu , who received his doctoral degree from Harvard University, is the first holder of the Wen Chao Chen Chair of History and East Asian Affairs at Kalamazoo College where he offers courses in the Departments of History, the International and Area Studies, and Political Science. His main research area is China's international history and has recently finished his manuscript "Age of Innocence: the First World War and China's Quest for National Identity," a first full study of China and the Great War. His ongoing research project is to examine China's participation in the Paris Peace Conference (1919) and its search for a new world order.
Office Address: Department of History, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI 49006
Office Phone: 269-337-7055
Email: gxu@kzoo.edu

 

Dr. Carol S. Anderson, Associate Professor of Religion

Carol Anderson specializes in the history of religions with foci in Buddhism as well as the religions of South Asia. She is the author of Pain and Its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon (Curzon Press, 1999), and has published several other articles on Buddhism and Hinduism in the nineteenth century. She also teaches in the Women's Studies program, and is currently editing a volume entitled Teaching Women and/in Religion Courses.
Office Address: Department of Religion, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006
Office Phone: 269-337-7114
Email: anderson@kzoo.edu

Dr. Roselee Bundy, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature

Rose Bundy specializes in the literature of pre-modern Japan, with focus on medieval poetry and poetics and the early literature by women. She has published several studies on the poet Fujiwara Teika, in the journal Monumenta Nipponica, and on the tenth-century Kagero Diary, the first piece of prose literature in Japanese by a woman, in Women Studies International. She teaches Japanese literature in translation from all periods, Japanese women's literature, Asian-American literature, as well as Japanese language courses. Her AB, AM, and PhD degrees are all from the University of Chicago. When not involved in academic matters, she is an avid runner, cyclist, and swimmer.
Office Address: Department of Religion, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006
Office Phone: 269-337-7326
Email: bundy@kzoo.edu

Ms. Jane Blyth Warren, Instructor of Japanese Language

Jane Blyth Warren holds an undergraduate degree from University of Pittsburgh, and graduate degrees from University of Kansas and Indiana State University. She has taught Japanese language and culture at Moorhead State University (MN), Valley City State University (ND), and Indiana State University (IN). In addition, she taught ESL at INTERLINK Language Center in Terre Haute, IN. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Media Technology with an emphasis on linguistics and computer-assisted language learning. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, language pedagogy and using computers in the language classroom.

Office Address: Center for Asian Studies, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI 49006

Office Phone: 269-337-7408
Email: jwarren@kzoo.edu
Web Page: http://cc.kzoo.edu/~jwarren/