Carthage

Yan Wang

  • Assistant Professor of Modern Languages — Japanese

Yan Wang teaches courses in Japanese, Chinese and Global Heritage. Her research interests include Japanese/Chinese discourse analysis, pragmatics, syntax, pedagogy and cultural anthropology. Her recent publications and conference presentations focus on Japanese sentence-final particles and various interrogative forms in conversational discourse.

Before coming to Carthage in 2008, she worked as an assistant professor of Japanese at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and studied anthropology at the University of Tokyo.

Education

  • Ph.D. — Japanese linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • M.A. — Chinese linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • M.A. — Japanese culture, Beijing Center for Japanese Studies
  • B.A. — Japanese, Beijing Foreign Studies University
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"My favorite professor is Dr. Yan Wang. She challenges us to expand on what we have learned, clearly explains difficult Japanese grammatical structures and just makes everything much easier to understand. She is always there to help students, and what's best is that she is always happy and willing to meet with students outside of class for help or for a broader understanding of something."
— Jennifer Weiss, '14

Contact Information

ywang@carthage.edu
(262) 551-6344
Lentz Hall 334