Profile
Dr. Melinda Landeck
Title: Associate Professor of East Asian Studies
Department: East Asian Studies
Degrees:
Ph.D., History of East Asia, University of Kansas 2015
M.A., East Asian Studies, Yale University 2000
B.A., English Literature & Asian Studies, Colorado State University 1998
M.A., East Asian Studies, Yale University 2000
B.A., English Literature & Asian Studies, Colorado State University 1998
Email
(Primary)
Courses Taught
At Austin College:
- EAS245 The Samurai
- EAS335 The Two Koreas
- EAS110 Origins of East Asian Civilization
- JAPN 201: Intermediate Japanese Language
At the University of Kansas:
- HIST398: Japanese History from Anime to Zen
- HIST118: History of East Asia
Through the University of Colorado's Program for Teaching East Asia (online):
- "Cracking the Samurai Code"
- "Premodern Japan"
Research Interests
Early modern intellectual and aesthetic trends, material culture studies, traditional culture and national identity formation, Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu), traditional theater, East Asian diplomacy, war and memory, historical revisionism, environmental history in East Asia, Asian pop culture and "soft power."
Selected Publications
- “Tea Outside of the Sen Schools” (Japan Past & Present, 2025)
- "What is Teachable about Japanese Tea Practice?" (Education about Asia, 2013)
- "Teaching Heian Japan" (Education about Asia, 2005)
Links:
- Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/nhome/
- Academia profile: http://austincollege.academia.edu/MelindaLandeck
In the News:
- Teaching Tea, project sponsored by the Yanni Initiative at UCLA
- David Bowie JanTerm
- Japan Fest 2014
Faculty Extras:
- Table Leader/Reader, AP Japanese Language and Culture Exam, 2008 - 2018
- Member, Association of Asian Studies
- Practitioner of Japanese tea ceremony, Urasenke school, 1995 to present
- Prosper Community Library, Japanese Story Time at the Children’s Library