Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures

About Us

The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa is the largest department of its kind in the country and offers a curriculum unparalleled in its breadth, depth, and variety of courses in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language, Linguistics, and Literature.

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Chinese

The Chinese Section of EALL consists of two subsections: Chinese language & linguistics and Chinese literary & cultural studies. Offering faculty expertise in linguistics, language pedagogy, literary and cultural studies, the Chinese Section is one of the largest of its kind in North America and outside East Asia.

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Japanese

In the Japanese major, students combine advanced language work with the study of Japanese linguistics and literature. The goal of the major is to produce students who are not only highly proficient in the language, but also have the capacity to work between languages and cultures.

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Korean

The Korean Section offers undergraduate and graduate programs in Korean language & linguistics, and Korean literature. Through the Korean Language Flagship Center, students can also enroll in Korean for Professionals programs that include an overseas component.

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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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