Faculty Books

From the history of race and caste in Latin America to the role of music in religion around the world, Columbian College faculty publish numerous thought-provoking and timely titles every year. Their work has topped bestseller lists, inspired debate and dialogue and received positive reviews from high-profile outlets like the Los Angeles Review of Books and The New York Times.
 


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Treffpunkt Deutsch

Margaret Gonglewski, associate professor of German, takes a student-centered, communicative approach to teaching German. Her textbook, co-authored with Beverly Moser and Cornelius...

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El Encargo

¿Qué tienen en común, Iván Kohen, traductor estadounidense, y Sergio Mancino, periodista?: Un tren equivocado, un recorrido por distintos pueblos de la provincia argenti.

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Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach

Hongyuan Dong's "Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach" looks to study the syntax, semantics, and phonology of questions and proposes a phonological scope-...

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Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kathryn Kleppinger's "Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France" offers a critical assessment of the ways in which...

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The Routledge Course in Business Korean

"The Routledge Course in Business Korean" is a textbook for teaching Korean to mid-intermediate to low-advanced students to learn the language used in a business context in every-day life in Korea...

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Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600

The majority of medieval and 16th-century Iberian manuscripts contain fragments or are fragments — isolated bits of manuscript material with a damaged appearance, or a piece of a larger...

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Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones

Tones are the most challenging aspect of learning Chinese pronunciation for adult learners and traditional research mostly attributes tonal errors to interference from learners' native languages....

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Rewriting Revolution: Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction

Immanuel Kim’s book confronts North Korean stereotypes, offering a more complex portrayal of literature in the North based on writings from the 1960s to the present. The...

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Imperial Idiocy: A Reflection on Forced Displacement in the Americas

Accepting the ancient Greeks’ definition of the idiot as a privatized man and expanding on Tocqueville’s understanding that in modern democracies it is mass idiocy that invites tyranny, argues...

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Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction Intellectuals, World Disorder and the Politics of Empire

Co-author Christopher Britt, associate professor of Spanish, formulates a new understanding of a common concept (enlightenment) by framing it as a trans-historical and cross-...