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Wai-yee S. Li, an expert in ancient Chinese historical narratives, will join the Department of East Asian Studies (EAS) as a tenured professor in September.
"She is young and brilliant and has something that we didn't have"--expertise on this kind of historical narratives, said Peter K. Bol, professor of Chinese history and chair of the EAS department.
The addition of Li to Harvard's small EAS staff, combined with the recently announced tenure of Wilt L. Idema, a professor at the Netherlands' University of Leiden, means the department can expand the content and format of its courses, Bol said.
"Because we've always been so pressed for Faculty in the EAS department, now we're able to do more for the students than we were able to do before," he said.
"You can't go into EAS for purely economic reasons, there's bound to be disappointment, because taking an Asian language is not like night courses in accounting," Moland says. "You have to be serious."