BEAL-8

Buckeye East Asian Linguistics 8 (BEAL 8)

The eighth volume of Buckeye East Asian Linguistics (BEAL-8), edited by Mineharu Nakayama, Marjorie K.M. Chan, and Zhiguo Xie, is dedicated to Professor Charles J. Quinn Jr., who passed away on July 11, 2023.

Professor Quinn taught classical and modern Japanese language, linguistics, and language pedagogy at The Ohio State University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL) from 1986-2023, with his first several years as the coordinator of the intensive Japanese language program under the Ohio Board of Regents’ Challenge Grant. He finished his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan while he was teaching in DEALL and became an assistant professor from the subsequent term. Professor Quinn received the 1990 OSU Alumni University Distinguished Teaching Award and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1993. He was also a visiting professor at the Research Institute for Japanese Culture, Tohoku University, Japan, in 1993-94 and at the National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan, in 1999-2000.

During his 37 years at OSU, Professor Quinn supervised 1 Honors thesis, 11 M.A. theses, and 7 Ph.D. dissertations, in addition to serving on a number of other M.A. thesis and Ph.D. dissertations in DEALL and as an external committee member at Indiana University and Columbia University. He directed the Japanese language programs at both Indiana University, from 1984-86 and the summers of 1987 and 1988, and at Ohio State multiple times over the years.