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Course Information  

At �鶹ֱ��, all faculty teach a variety of different courses. Typically, we do not use �鶹ֱ�� teaching assistants, which means that your classes will be taught by professors and that you will have plenty of opportunities to get to know the faculty in your discipline.

Below I have listed some of the courses that I teach. We are always developing and trying out new classes, so the list may change now and then.

• Introduction to Japanese Language & Culture (JAPN101 and JAPN102)
• Intermediate Japanese (JAPN201 and JAPN202)
• Kanji, Business Japanese, and Japanese Cooking, (JAPN221, JAPN222, and JAPN223)
• Communicating in Japanese (JAPN301 and JAPN302)
• Topics in Contemporary Literature (JAPN311 and JAPN401W)
• Selected Issues in Japanese Press (JAPN302 and JAPN402W)
• Seminar in Japanese (JAPN485W)
• Senior Capstone (JAPN490 and JAPN491)
• Japanese Literature in Translation (HUM203)
• Traditional Theater of East Asia (HUM/THEA353)
• First Year Community (HUM102)
• Internship in Japanese (JAPN275/475) at English Language Institute at �鶹ֱ��, Dental Clinic, Naturopath Clinic, or Language Immersion Elementary School

Education

Ph.D. University of Connecticut, Storrs (Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies)

Research Interests

Japanese language pedagogy and Japanese literature/theater

Research Works

“Communicating with Humor: Poetic Exchanges of Renku in L2 Classroom” L2 Journal: an electronic refereed journal for foreign and second language educators,16 (1) 2024 

“Keigo to use and to be used: Reevaluation of keigo learning in Japanese language classes” Journal of Japanese Language Education and Linguistics, 6 (2) 2022

“CLIL and intercultural competence in teaching Japanese language and literature” Journal of Language and Cultural Education, 8 (1) 2020

“Nose Sakae’s Study Abroad: Idealization and Devaluation of American Education During Japan’s Early Meiji Era” Oregon Historical Quarterly, 115 (1) 2014

“Double Nora: Noh Adaptation of A Doll’s House” Asian Theatre Journal, 31 (2) 2014

Bugen: Dancing Illusion of Noh. Tokyo: Being Net Press, co-Authored with Tsumura Reijiro, Morita Toshiro, Hayashi Nozomu, and Noda Hideki 2010 

“A fusion of drama and religion: A study of Mugen Noh in Thomas Becket” Studies in Theatre & Performance, 30 (2) 2010