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Juwen Zhang
Luce Junior Professor
of Chinese Language and Culture
Mailing Address:
Willamette University
Dept. of Japanese & Chinese
900 State Street
Salem, OR 97301
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Phone:(503) 370-6256
Fax:(503) 375-5398
Email: juwen@willamette.
edu
Office: Walton 147
Office Hours: by appointment
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Chinese
Program
Professor Zhang earned
his M.A. and Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University
of Pennsylvania, along with Urban Studies Certificate. He also
attended the graduate programs in Dartmouth College and in Shenyang
Normal University in China. His academic training has led his
research interests to topics such as, Chinese ritual studies,
folklore performance, ethnic identity, humor, material culture,
popular culture, and Chinese/Asian American folklore. His current
research is on the Rites of Passage in Chinese Societies and
Filmic Folklore.
As a language teacher,
Professor Zhang has brought with him extensive experience in
teaching Chinese language from these programs: Dartmouth College,
Middlebury College Summer Language School, Swarthmore College,
Haverford College, and Bryn Mawr College in the past seven years,
as well as ten years' language teaching in China. His teaching
style has integrated the merits from different approaches, emphasizing
communicative proficiency. Through visualization and dramatization
in reinforcement drills and situational conversations, he tries
to make the process of learning Chinese not only efficient,
but also interesting and pleasant.
Currently, Professor
Zhang teaches Chinese language at all levels and the following
culture courses: Rites of Passage in Chinese Societies (CHNSE
252) in the fall and Language, Ethnicity, and Folklore in China
(CHNSE 254) in the spring.
Courses
offered Fall semester 2007:
Intermediate
Chinese I
Rites
of Passage in Chinese Society
Advanced
Chinese: Reading the Media
Reading
and Conference
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