Faculty & Staff

Office Hours:  Mondays and Wednesdays 11:10 am -12:10 pm, Fridays 10:50-11:50 am; and by appointment.  Zoom meetings for those who can not make it to office hours in person; 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 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm, Thursdays 10:00 am – 12:00 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 12:30-1:30 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30-2:20 pm, Wednesdays 2:30-3:30 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: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-11:00 am, Tuesdays 2:30-3:30 pm; and by appointment

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00 am -12:00 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:15-4:15 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: Monday-Friday 9:00 am -12:30 pm, 1:00-5:00 pm

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.