Staff

Dr. Misumi Sadler is an associate professor of Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy and coordinates the Japanese Language Program at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research areas are grammar-pragmatics interface, interactional linguistics, language change, pedagogical grammar, and teaching Japanese as a foreign language. She received her doctorate from University of Arizona in 2002. Her works includes: Grammar in use across time and space: Deconstructing the Japanese “dative subject” construction (John Benjamins, 2007); “Co-constructing intercultural views and identities in a teaching methods class” (Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence, 2014) and many others.

Contact Information: sadlerm@illinois.edu

Yuchia Chang joined CEAPS as our Associate Director in May 2016. She works with our Director and staff to plan and manage various aspects of CEAPS programs and collaborative initiatives. Yuchia is an arts management professional with over 15 years of experience as an administrator, curator, and project manager in the non-profit and higher-education settings. She has taught arts entrepreneurship at Columbia College Chicago, and has served on several arts review panels for the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois.

Contact Information: yuchia@illinois.edu

Alex came to the University of Illinois campus in 2010 as a student.  Since then she's received her bachelors in Elementary Education, Masters in Curriculum & Instruction, and has her endorsement in school librarian.  Along with her education, she was a classroom teacher for over nine years.  Alex joined the CEAPS staff in September of 2023. In her position she helps develop outreach activities and support center programming and engagement with faculty, students, and the community.

Contact Information: park387@illinois.edu

James Coburn - jcoburn2@illinois.edu