Faculty & Staff

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 9:50-10:50 am, Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30-3:30 pm; and by appointment

Sophia University B. A., Tsukuba University M. Ed., Monash University M. A., University of Chicago, PhD; modern and contemporary Japanese literature, cinema, manga, and language, especially autobiographies and works by minorities in Japan.

Office Hours: Mondays 11:10 am-12:10 pm, Tuesdays 10:50-11:50 am, Fridays 12:00-1:00 pm; and by appointment

Beijing Normal University, (Beijing, Peoples Republic of China), B.A., M.A.; The University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D; cultural studies of new media, Chinese literature, film and culture.

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30-1:30 pm, Tuesdays 1:30-2:30 pm, Thursdays 9:00-10:00 am; and by appointment

Miyagi Gakuin Women’s College, B.A.; University of Northern Iowa, M.A.; University of St. Thomas, M.A. Basic concepts of Japanese Language Teaching, Content based instructions, Reading Strategies, Integrating Technology into Teaching Japanese, & Designing Business Japanese Curriculums taken from University of Colorado. Growing interest in incorporating technology into teaching/learning languages and the flipped classroom.

Office Hours: Mondays 1:00-2:00 pm, Wednesdays 2:00-3:00 pm, and Thursdays 11:00 am-12:00 pm; or by appointment

McGill University B.A.; University of California, Berkeley M.A. Ph.D.; Chinese language and linguistics, especially language contact, lexical borrowing; writing systems; Southeast Asian historical linguistics.

Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 3:15-4:15 pm, and Wednesdays 11:00 am-12:00 pm; or by appointment

Kobe Kaisei Women’s College, B.A.; University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), M.A., Ph.D.; Japanese language and language pedagogy, especially measures of proficiency. Professor Kaga has also co-authored a computer program, Exercises in Japanese Counters and Kana. She is developing a digitized computer program for listening and reading practice.

Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:00 am-12:00 pm,  Thursdays 12:00-1:00 pm; and by appointment

Stanford, B.A.; Ochanomizu University, M.A.; Harvard, Ph.D.; Japanese language and literature, especially modern fiction, with particular emphasis on Natsume Soseki, Mishima Yukio, Shimao Toshio, and fiction by contemporary Japanese women. Growing interest in English language fiction by Indian women.