Peter J. Yang
Office: Guilford 307
216-368-2234
Email: pjy2
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Peter J. Yang (PhD, Utah) is
Associate Professor of German, Chinese and Comparative Literature at Case Western Reserve University, where he
teaches and serves in the Department
of Modern Languages and Literatures. He came to CASE following four years as
German translator at Central Translating and Editing Office, Beijing, seven years as researcher at the
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade and the Chinese Trade
Office in Austria, and two years as
Director of the Language Laboratory at University of Richmond. His publications
include books, translated and edited volumes, chapters in books, articles, and
reviews in Germanics, language teaching and technology, economics, and social
sciences. His most recent books include Theater ist Theater on
theatricality in the chalk-circle plays by Bertolt Brecht and Li Xingdao [Peter Lang,
1998] and Play is Play on the Swiss playwright Max Frisch's Die chinesische Mauer/
The Chinese Wall [University Press
of America, 2000]. Currently, he works on book projects 20th Century
German Theatrical Masterpieces and Inside China's Economic Reform.
He received a number of grants and awards, including a Provost Opportunity
Grant ($260,000). He served on the Modern
Language Association Committee on Information Technology and Chair of
CASE Untergraduate Faculty Committee on Academic Computer.
See all
courses I have taught at CASE.
Courses for Fall 2006
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Business Chinese
(CHIN 315)
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Preq: CHIN 202 or equivalent |
Elementary
German I (GRMN 101) |
Preq: None
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Intermediate
German I (GRMN 201) |
Preq:
GRMN 102 or equivalent
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German Cinema
(GRMN 330) |
Preq:
GRMN 202 or equivalent
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