Faculty Profiles
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Jazz Violin and Viola; Director of Wellesley BlueJazz CombosB.A., Earlham College; M.A., University of Chicago
Jazz violinist and bandleader, jazz violin and viola improvisation instructor, BlueJazz Combo Program Director and Coach
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Senior Lecturer in ChineseB.A., Nanjing University; M.A., Clark University
Interests include language teaching methodology, cross-cultural communication, Chinese pedagogical grammar, and language and culture.
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Professor of JapaneseB.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Columbia University
Focused on Japanese literature, how female writers refashion the category of "girlhood" in postwar fiction, manga, and memoir.
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Visiting Lecturer in Biological SciencesSc.B., Brown University; Ph.D., Boston University
Ecologist interested in community-level response to human driven change, including climate change, biodiversity shifts, and land management.
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Lecturer in Arabic LanguageB.A., M.A., University of Michigan
Teacher of Arabic language; aligns Arabic teaching pedagogy with current research in second language acquisition.