Chair
Professor of Japanese
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00-3:00 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.
Faculty
Office Hours: Mondays 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, Wednesdays 2:00-3:30 pm; and by appointment
Peking University, B.A. & M.A.; University of Washington, Ph.D.; Chinese linguistics, especially Old Chinese phonology, morphology, syntax, and paleography; early Chinese inscriptions.
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:45-2:00 pm, Fridays 9:15-9:45 am; 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 1:30-2:30 pm, Tuesdays 3:00-4:00 pm, Wednesdays 2:30-3:30 pm, Thursdays 2:00-3:00 pm; 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 12:00-1:00, Fridays 12:30-1:30; and by appointment
Indiana University, B.A.; University of Chicago, M.A.; University of Michigan, Ph.D.; Japanese literature, and book history.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst M.A.; University of Pennsylvania Ph.D.; Premodern Chinese literature, especially historical narratives, classical texts, and literary theories in early China. Other interests include Chinese archeology and language pedagogy.
Staff
Administrative Assistant in Classics
Administrative Assistant in Middle Eastern Languages
Office Hours: Working Remotely Monday-Friday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. But I’ll be in the office part-time on Mondays and Wednesdays. Email with questions.
Emeriti Faculty
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.
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.
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.