Faculty & Staff

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 am, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:10-4:10 pm

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 and Fridays 1:00-2:30 pm; via zoom with this link

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.

Drop in Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 2:30-3:30 pm and Fridays 11:00-11:50 am; By Appointment Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:00-4:00 pm and Thursdays 1:30-2:30 pm

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: Off Campus S2020

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: Mondays 2:00-3:00 pm, Tuesdays 3:00-4:00 pm

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 11:00-12:00 pm, Wednesdays 9:45-11:45 am; or by appointment; drop-in hour: Thursdays 12:00-1:00 pm

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.

Office Hours: Wednesdays 5:00-6:00 pm, and Sundays 5:00-7:00 pm

Office Hours:  Mondays and Wednesdays 7:00-9:30 pm