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Andrew Shimunek
Assistant Professor, Woosong University
Indiana University, USA (Ph.D.)
Teaching Areas
History of the Silk Road
Academic Writing
Academic Reading
Intercultural Communication
Presentation Skills
Research Areas
History of the Silk Road / Central Eurasia
Languages and cultures of the Silk Road
Attested Middle Chinese in Silk Road sources
Kitan (Khitan) historical texts
Mongolian language and literature
Old Turkic and Old Uighur
Jurchen-Manchu and Ewenki
Grammar of modern spoken Mongolian
Iranian words in steppe empires of Mongolia
Historical linguistics

Annemari Ferreira
Assistant Professor, Woosong University
Director, Liberal Arts
University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Ph.D.)
Teaching Areas
English and East Asian Literatures
Decolonial Literature
English Satire
Entertainment Marketing and
Storytelling
Communication Design
Research Areas
Medieval Poetry and Literature
Decolonisation in East Asian
Literatures
Music and Performance in
Literature Gender in Literature
Dialogism
Art, Soft Power, and Politics
Communication Design
Critical Theory
Psychoanalytic Approaches to
Literary Analysis
Daniel Corks
Assistant Professor
Director, Technology
Sogang University, Korea (M.A.)
Teaching Areas
Mathermatics for Business
IT for Business
Ines Mzali
Assistant Professor
Academic and Career Track Advisor
University of Montreal, Canada (Ph.D.)
Teaching Areas
English
Literature
Liberal Arts
Research Areas
Literary studies, World Literature
Education

Nimisha Singh
Assistant Professor
Writing Center Coordinator
University of KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa (Ph.D.)
Teaching Areas
Mathematics for Business
English as a Foreign
Language
Academic Reading and
Writing
Academic Written and Oral
Presentation
Research Areas
Cellular and Molecular
Biology
Biotechnology
Biochemistry
Oncology
Traditional Medicine and
Natural Plant Sources

Sung-Kyu Lim
Visiting Professor
Student Counsellor
ChungNam National University,
Korea (M.A.)
Teaching Areas
Psychology
Counselling and international
relationships
Research Areas
Applied Psychology
Subjective well-being
Faculty Infomation

Annemari Ferreira
Assistant Professor, Woosong University
Director, Liberal Arts
University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Ph.D.)
Contact
Email: annemariferreira@solbridge.ac.kr
Office: Room 303
Teaching Areas
English and East Asian Literatures
Decolonial Literature
English Satire
Entertainment Marketing and
Storytelling
Communication Design
Research Areas
Medieval Poetry and Literature
Decolonisation in East Asian
Literatures
Music and Performance in
Literature Gender in Literature
Dialogism
Art, Soft Power, and Politics
Communication Design
Critical Theory
Psychoanalytic Approaches to
Literary Analysis
Biography
Annemari Ferreira is an Assistant Professor and Director of Liberal Arts at SolBridge and holds a Research Fellowship at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research and teaching interests concern the politics of the interpersonal. Taking a trans-disciplinary approach to the interpretation and mediation of communication, her work explores the meaning-making that occurs in, and stems from, 'in-between' spaces of verbal and non-verbal expression.
Annemari’s research engages with early medieval literatures that provide rich source material for the study of politically-rooted cultural discourse. She is particularly interested in the role of dialogue in skaldic verse-making and the concomitant construction and development of skaldic diplomacy. New research projects include the study of political critique in Korean Manhwa, political jouissance, solar-punk approaches to decoloniality in East Asian Literature, and the reception history of Viking Age literatures in East Asian Literature.
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Andrew Shimunek
Assistant Professor, Woosong University
Indiana University, USA (Ph.D.)
Contact
Email: andrewshimunek@woosong.org
Teaching Areas
History of the Silk Road
Academic Writing
Academic Reading
Intercultural Communication
Presentation Skills
Research Areas
History of the Silk Road / Central Eurasia
Languages and cultures of the Silk Road
Attested Middle Chinese in Silk Road sources
Kitan (Khitan) historical texts
Mongolian language and literature
Old Turkic and Old Uighur
Jurchen-Manchu and Ewenki
Grammar of modern spoken Mongolian
Iranian words in steppe empires of Mongolia
Historical linguistics
Biography
Andrew Shimunek teaches courses on the history of the Silk Road, writing, and culture at SolBridge. His research spans the languages, cultures, and history of early, medieval, and modern Silk Road (Central Eurasia), especially Serbi- Mongolic (Hsien-pei / Xianbei and Mongolic), Old Turkic, Manchu-Tungusic (Jurchen and Manchu), Puyo-Koguryoic, Middle Chinese, Old Chinese, and Koreanic (韓 Han) languages and linguistics.
Andrew is engaged in interdisciplinary approaches to the history of the Silk Road — in particular, the Serbi (Hsien-pei / Xianbei) states, the Avar (Jou-jan / Rouran) Empire, the early Türk Empires, the Liao Kitan Empire, the Jurchen Chin (Jin) Empire, the Mongol Empire, other civilizations of the Silk Road, and their ethnolinguistic interactions with neighboring regions — including China and Korea — throughout history. He is currently writing a history of the Jou-jan (Rouran) Avar Empire of Mongolia and the Silk Road.
Publications
- Shimunek, A., & Shurgaia, G. (2024). The Middle Mongol zodiac in Georgian transcription. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x24000193
- Shimunek, A., & Beckwith, C., I. (2023). Mūjah and Mānk: Variants of the Pre-Imperial Mongol Ethnonym in the Akhbār al-Ṣīn wa al-Hind and Parallel Texts. Journal Asiatique, 311.1: 15–28. https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=article&id=3292220&journal_code=JA
- Andrew, S. (2023). The Earliest Koreanic Words for ‘Child’, ‘East’, ‘Mountain’, ‘River’, and ‘Shore’: A Comparative-Historical Linguistic Study of Several Kara (Kaya) Toponyms in the Samguk sagi. Acta Koreana, 26.1, 83–108. https://doi.org/10.18399/acta.2023.26.1.004
- Shimunek, A. (2022). Toward a Morphological Paradigm of the Kitan Verb ‘to give’ in Assembled Script and Linear Script, with Notes on Mongolic Cognates. Altai Hakpo, 32: 71–98. www.kci.go.kr. https://doi.org/10.15816/ask.2022..32.005
- Shimunek, A. (2021). Loanwords from the Puyo-Koguryoic languages of early Korean and Manchuria in Jurchen-Manchu. Altai Hakpo, 31, 65–84. http://dspace.kci.go.kr/handle/kci/1814891
- Shimunek, A. (2021). On Korean Peninsular historical linguistics: A review of recent studies on the languages of early Korea. Journal of Northeast Asian History (JNAH), Seoul, 18.1: 129–167.
- Shimunek, A. (2021). Expressing admonitive mood and perplexive-consternative mood in spoken Khalkha Mongolian. In: Модально-оценочные конструкции в монгольских и тюркских языках 2 [Modal-Evaluative Constructions in Mongolic and Turkic Languages, 2], edited by V. N. Mušaev et al., Elista: Kalmykia State University, pp. 138–145.
- Shimunek, A. (2021). Монгол, солонгос хэлний үг дундын нийлмэл гийгүүлэгчийн авианы зэрэгцүүлэл [A contrastive analysis of Korean and Mongolian word-medial consonant clusters].
Хавсарга Хэл Шинжлэл [Applied Linguistics] (Ulaanbaatar: Mongolian University of Science and Technology), 17: 92–100. - Shimunek, A. (2019). Khentii-Dornod Khamnigan Ewenki: Toward a revised analysis of Rinchen’s notes on a Tungusic language of Mongolia. Altai Hakpo, 29: 87–113.
- Shimunek, A. (2018). Early Serbi-Mongolic‑Tungusic lexical contact: Jurchen numerals from the 室韋 Shirwi (Shih-wei) in North China. In: Philology of the Grasslands, ed. by Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky et al. Leiden: Brill, pp. 331–346.
- Shimunek, A. (2017). An Old Chinese word for ‘silk’ in Mongolic, Turkic, Tungusic, and Persian. Eurasian Studies, Brill, 15.1: 142–151.
- Shimunek, A. (2017). Toward a decipherment and linguistic reconstruction of the 1101 AD Kitan Eulogy for Empress Xuanyi, with notes on Mongolic cognates. Acta Orientalia (Budapest), 70.2: 253–272.
- Shimunek, A. (2017). Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: A Historical Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language Family, with an Analysis of Northeastern Frontier Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
- Shimunek, A. (2016). Yöröö Khamnigan: A possibly recently extinct Tungusic language of northern Mongolia. Altai Hakpo, 26: 13–28.
- Shimunek, A., Beckwith, C. I., Washington, J. N., Kontovas, N. & Niyaz, K. (2015). The earliest attested Turkic language: The 羯 Chieh language of the fourth century AD. Journal Asiatique, 303.1: 143–151.
- Shimunek, A. (2014). Notes on the phonology and lexicon of Early Modern Mongolian and Late Southern Middle Mongol as documented in a 17th century Ming Chinese-Mongolian dictionary. Ming Qing Yanjiu (Italy), 18: 97–131.
- Shimunek, A. (2014). Phonological and literary characteristics of Khamnigan oral folklore. Altai Hakpo, 24: 115–128.
- Shimunek, A. (2014). A new decipherment and linguistic reconstruction of the Kitan-Chinese bilingual inscription of 1134 ad. Acta Orientalia (Budapest), 67.1: 97–118.
- Shimunek, A. (2010). Mongolic elements in the Hazaragi language of Afghanistan and their value for reconstructing Western Middle Mongol. In: Mongolia in the 21st Century, ed. K. Warikoo & S.K. Soni. New Delhi: Pentagon, pp. 29–45.
- Shimunek, A. (2008). “Liyoo ulus-un teüke”-daki ǰarim kitan üge-yin tuqai [On several Kitan words in the Liao Annals]. Journal of the Northwest University for Nationalities (Mongolian edition) 西北民族大学学报 (蒙古文版), 1: 30–34.
- Shimunek, A. (2007). A preliminary derivational account of consonant assimilation in Daur, Монгол судлалын эрдэм шинжилгээний бичиг [Journal of Mongolian Studies] (National University of Mongolia), 27: 131–137.
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Sung-Kyu Lim
Visiting Professor
Student Counsellor
ChungNam National University, Korea (M.A.)
Contact
Email: itcounselor@solbridge.ac.kr
Office: Room 305
Tel: +82 42 630 8896
Teaching Areas
Psychology
Counselling and international
relationships
Research Areas
Applied Psychology
Subjective well-being
Biography
SungKyu Lim is the Student Counsellor at SolBridge International School of Business. He completed a degree in psychology at Texas A&M and obtained a Master’s in clinical psychology-based counselling from the Chungnam National University. While completing his Master’s, he focused on international students in Daejeon and their behavioral inhibition systems, hardiness and subjective well-being. Since 2022 he has been concentrating on international student happiness.
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Nimisha Singh
Assistant Professor
Writing Center Coordinator
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Ph.D.)
Contact
Email: nimishasingh@woosong.org
Office: Beta Room 226
Teaching Areas
Mathematics for Business
English as a Foreign Language
Academic Reading and Writing
Academic Written and Oral Presentation
Research Areas
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Biotechnology
Biochemistry
Oncology
Traditional Medicine and Natural Plant Sources
Biography
Nimisha Singh is an Assistant Professor and Writing Center Coordinator at SolBridge International School of Business, Woosong University. In 2019, she graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her research expertise is in oncology, cell and molecular biology, genetics, and biotechnology. She has taught at academic institutions for 15 years, tutoring and lecturing in the fields of Science and English. She has a firm belief in empowering younger generations with knowledge and skills that can help them face the next chapters of their lives.
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Contact
Email: Daniellundquist@woosong.org
Office: W18 514
Teaching Areas
Psychology, Sociology, Business Ethics, Communications.
Research Areas
Intersection between Eastern and Western culture and the expression of social psychology.
Biography
Professor Lundquist studies the psychological differences between people from collective cultures vs individualistic cultures. With a particular interest in how individuals from each culture relates to the other in the workplace. With additional research in Human Sexuality, and Psychopathy.
Professor Lundquist studied Behavioral Science in his undergraduate studies. Focusing on Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Work, and an emphasis on Psychology. He received a Master of Social Work, gaining licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Prior to teaching in Korea, professor Lundquist worked as a psychotherapist in Denver, Colorado. His background included forensic counseling with sex-offenders, and other criminal offenders. He received additional training for working with psychopaths from Robert D. Hare, the foremost expert on psychopathy. Additionally, he worked providing marriage and family counseling, and working with mood disordered clients.
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Daniel Kopperud
Assistant Professor
Senior International Admissions Manager
Cloud State University, USA (M.A.)
Contact
Email: Dan.Kopperud@SolBridge.ac.kr
Phone: +82 42-630-8856
Office: Room 1208
Teaching Areas
Business Communication
Research Areas
International Student Employment and Academic Achievement
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Contact
Email: danielcorks@solbridge.ac.kr
Office: Room 211
Teaching Areas
Mathematics for Business IT for Business
Research Areas
Pedagogy, instructed language
learning
Biography
Daniel Corks is a well-rounded academic with a diverse set of interests and knowledge areas. His academic specialization is instructed second language learning, in addition to having a background in applied linguistics and computer science. Professionally, he is a regular presenter at conferences focusing on linguistics and pedagogy. His extra-curricular activities include assisting with the SolBridge Debate Society and as a journalist researching and writing about human rights issues in South Korea.
Publications
- Swanepoel, D., & Corks, D. (2024). Artificial Intelligence and Agency: Tie-breaking in AI Decision-Making. Science and Engineering Ethics, 30(2), 11.
- Corks, Daniel & Park, Eun Sung (2015). Effects of direct feedback on grammatical accuracy and explicit/implicit knowledge of target forms. English Language & Literature Teaching, 22(1), 1-22.
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Jeffrey Alan Miller
Assistant Professor, Woosong University
Western Illinois University, USA (M.A.)
Contact
Teaching Areas
Advanced Composition
(Honors English)
Communication
U.S. History
Asian History
Korean History
Korean Literature
Research Areas
Contemporary American Culture
Korean History
The Cold War
Film of the 1970s
The Korean War
20th Century American Novel
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Johan Reiners
Assistant Professor, Woosong University
University of Pretoria, South Africa (M.Phil.)
Contact
Email: johanreiners@woosong.org
Office: W18-#514
Teaching Areas
Contemporary Korean Popular Culture
Research Areas
Sociology
Biography
South African born Johan Reiners is an Assistant Professor at Woosong University, SolBridge International School of Business. He completed his undergraduate studies in Theology and his graduate studies in Applied Theology and Counseling Therapy. He earned his graduate degrees with distinction and is currently a Ph.D. candidate researching the field of autoethnography. Not only is he a passionate reader, but also an author and co-author of fifteen books and various other publications. As an educator, Johan served on the faculty and board of the Christian Reformed Theological Seminary (affiliated with the University of Zululand) until 2005. Since coming to Korea, he has held lecturing positions at the Hankuk University for Foreign Studies, Hyupsung University’s Graduate School of Theology - presenting courses in psychology, theology, and English, and the Catholic University of Korea before joining Woosong University in September 2019. In South Africa, Johan was also involved in the performing arts with the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra and Durban Symphony Choir, and, as a freelance broadcaster, he presented various arts and music programs for the national and regional radio stations.
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Ines Mzali
Assistant Professor
Academic and Career Track Advisor
University of Montreal, Canada (Ph.D.)
Teaching Areas
English
Literature
Liberal Arts
Research Areas
Literary studies, World Literature
Education
Biography
Ines Mzali is an Assistant Professor and the Academic and Career Track Coordinator at SolBridge. She has been teaching in South Korea since 2014. A firm believer in the power of education, she naturally made teaching her profession after earning her Ph.D. in English Studies from the University of Montreal, Canada. Her Ph.D. focused on concepts of resistance and negotiation in African Literature. With her background in literary studies and passion for languages and the cultural diversity they reflect, she strives to convey the power of language, communication, and critical thinking to her students.
Her teaching experience includes teaching language and liberal arts classes such as literature, history, and creative writing. Her professional interests include teaching, researching language, literature, and culture, and helping students grow.
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