Japanese Faculty

 

Shoichi Iwasaki
Professor
Japanese Language
  • From UCLA, Dr. Shoichi Iwasaki will be joining the EALL Department on August 1, 2013, as a professor of Japanese Language/Linguistics.
Haruko Minegishi Cook
Professor
Japanese Language(808) 956-2057
hkcook@hawaii.edu
  • Sociolingusitics
  • Discourse analysis
  • Language socialization
  • Pragmatics
Robert Huey
Professor
Japanese Literature(808) 956-2662
huey@hawaii.edu
  • Early, classical, and medieval Japanese poetry
Ken K. Ito
Professor
Japanese Literature(808) 956-2233
kenkito@hawaii.edu
  • Modern Japanese literature, particularly fiction of the Meiji period (1868-1912), with a focus on the interconnections between literature and social ideologies
  • Narratology
  • Reception studies
  • Cultural studies
Katsue Akiba Reynolds
Professor
Japanese Language(808) 956-7244
katsue@hawaii.edu
  • Sociolinguistics with focus on gender and changing aspects of the Japanese language and culture: phatic communication, critical discourse analysis, feminism, interdisciplinary perspectives
Alexander Vovin
Professor
Japanese Language(808) 956-2051
vovin@hawaii.edu
  • Japanese and Korean historical linguistics, with emphasis on earliest written languages and prehistory, the Ainu language, Altaic linguistics, the Manchu language, Central Asian Linguistics in general.
Kimi Kondo-Brown
Professor
Japanese Language(808) 956-4426
kondo@hawaii.edu
  • Second/heritage language pedagogy
  • Curriculum development
  • Assessment and program evaluation
Nobuko Ochner
Associate Professor
Japanese Literature(808) 956-2055
ochner@hawaii.edu
  • Modern Japanese literature, particularly fiction
  • East-West literary relations
  • Bibliography in Japanese studies
Kazue Kanno
Associate Professor
Japanese Language(808) 956-7113
kanno@hawaii.edu
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Japanese Syntax
  • Pedagogical Linguistics
  • Sentence Parsing
Arthur Thornhill
Associate Professor
Japanese Literature(808) 956-2056
thornhil@hawaii.edu
  • Medieval Japanese literature and religion, with a special interest in noh drama
Dina Rudolph Yoshimi
Associate Professor
Japanese Language(808) 956-2077
dinar@hawaii.edu
  • Japanese second language acquisition (pragmatics)
  • Japanese language pedagogy (experimental approaches to the instruction of extended discourse)
  • Japanese discourse and pragmatics (epistemic and affective functions of sentence-final particles)
  • Japanese sociolinguistics (apprenticeship relationships)
Shinichiro Fukuda
Assistant Professor
Japanese Language(808) 956-2063
fukudash@hawaii.edu
  • Syntax
  • Lexical semantics
  • Syntax-lexical semantics interface phenomena and their acquisition
  • Japanese Linguistics
  • Syntax of Asian languages (Japanese, Vietnamese and Burmese)
  • Experimental syntax
Yumiko Tateyama
Assistant Professor
Japanese Language(808) 956-8031
yumiko@hawaii.edu
  • Interlanguage pragmatics (teaching and learning pragmatics in JFL classroom)
  • Japanese language pedagogy
  • Second language acquisition
  • Conversation analysis
  • Translation and interpretation
Saeko Shibayama
Assistant Professor
Japanese Literature(808) 956-2071
sshiba@hawaii.edu
  • Japanese and Sino-Japanese poetry and prose from the eighth through thirteenth centuries
  • Medieval commentaries
  • Comparative study of the European Middle Ages and medieval Japan
  • Poetics
Stewart Curry
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-2080
scurry@hawaii.edu
  • Language contact and variation
  • Language documentation and lexicography
  • Okinawan/Ryukyuan language and linguistics
  • Japonic and general historical linguistics
  • Japanese language pedagogy
Susan Hirate
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-2082
hirate@hawaii.edu
Claire Ikumi Hitosugi
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-9103
hitosugi@hawaii.edu
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
  • Innovative Language Pedagogy
  • Extensive Reading
  • Quantitative Research Methodology
  • Communication, Culture and Trust Theories
Tomoko Iwai
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-2088
tomoko@hawaii.edu
  • Language pedagogy
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Pragmatics
Hiromi Uchida
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-9212
uchida@hawaii.edu
  • Pedagogy
  • Second language acquisition
Masami Lachmann
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-6851
lachmann@hawaii.edu
  • Japanese Language
Karen Masunaga
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-3857
masun@hawaii.edu
  • Japanese language pedagogy
  • Japanese sociolinguistics
Gladys Nakahara
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-2084
gnakahar@hawaii.edu
  • Ryojinhisho Classical Japanese songs and poems
  • Classical Japanese literature
Miki Ogasawara
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-7245
mogasawa@hawaii.edu
Dennis Ogawa
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-7245
ogaden@hawaii.edu
Grace Ray
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-2085
ray@hawaii.edu
Misako Steverson
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-2084
steverso@lava.net
Yuka Wada
Instructor
Japanese Language(808) 956-4973
ywada@hawaii.edu
Patrick C. K. Woo
Instructor
Japanese Literature(808) 956-4643
woop@hawaii.edu
 

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