LCS faculty
Kimi Akita
Associate professor
Keywords
Ideophones/Onomatopoeia, Sound symbolism, Cognitive linguistics
Research interests
My research interests concern iconic phenomena in language. I am especially interested in how cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and linguistic typology can explain the grammatical, functional, and developmental properties of ideophones (aka giongo / gitaigo or onomatopoeia).
Background
I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics from Kobe University in 2009. I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo (2009-2011) and the University of California, Berkeley (2009-2010). I then taught Cognitive Linguistics at Osaka University (2011-2015) before joining the Department of Applied Linguistics (2015-2017) and the Department of English Linguistics (2017-present) at Nagoya University. I am also a visiting associate professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
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Grib Dina
Instructor
Research interests
Background
- 2007/06 , Far-Eastern National University , Faculty of Oriental Studies , Japanese Language Studies , Graduated , RUSSIAN FEDERATION
- 2012/03 , Meiji University , Graduate School, Division of Letters , History , Doctor Course Previous Term , Completed
- 2018/03 , Tokyo Metropolitan University , Graduate School, Division of Humanities , Japanese Lnaguage Education , Doctor Course Latter Term , Completed
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Edward Haig
Professor
Keywords
Critical discourse analysis, Systemic functional linguistics, Ecolinguistics, Media discourse, News in seventeenth century England
Research interests
My current research interests include ecolinguistics (both the language of ecology and the ecology of language); the ideological use of language in Japanese and English news media; the interrelations between public and private discourses of youth, crime and class; and the language of radio broadcasting. Recently I have begun studying the earliest English newspapers and pamphlets published around the time of the English Civil War. The two main theoretical and methodological tools that I use in my research are systemic functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis.
Background
I am a professor in the Graduate School of Humanities' English Education Department. I have an M.Sc. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Aston University, UK) and Ph.D.s in Ecology (King's College London, UK) and Linguistics (Lancaster University, UK).
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Makoto Hayashi
Professor
Keywords
Conversation analysis, Interactional linguistics, Usage-based Grammar, Language and the body, Social action
Research interests
My research focuses on examining language as it is used in everyday conversation. One of the main themes of my work is to explore the structural orderliness in language use (which we think of as 'grammar') as an emergent, embodied, and activity-bound phenomenon. I have pursued this theme in articles published in a range of recognized journals, such as Language in Society, Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Processes, as well as in book chapters. I use Conversation Analysis as the main methodological framework for discovering orderly ways in which humans deploy language to participate in everyday activities and jointly construct the social world which they inhabit.
Background
I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2000. I taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 16 years before I joined the faculty of Nagoya University in 2016. I am the author of Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese Conversation (John Benjamins, 2003) and a co-editor of Conversational Repair and Human Understanding (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
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Sang-Mi Kim
Associate professor
Research interests
My research concerns the social and psychological impacts of media communication and information technologies (such as mobile devices, the Internet and television), Information Behavior (IB), network communication, the social and cultural impacts of digital technology and culture. I am also currently focusing on the digital divide and gender inequalities.
Background
I received my Bachelor of Arts from Ewha Womans University (Korea) and my MA and Ph.D. in Socio-Information from the University of Tokyo.
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Chikako Matsushita
Professor
Research interests
My research interests include feminist theory, sexuality studies, literature and theory, visual culture and subcultures.
Background
I received my Ph.D. in Literature from Nagoya University in 2007 on narratologies and queer readings of modern American novels. I am the author of Kuia Monogatariron [Queer Narratologies], Jimbunshoin, Japan, 2009) and the co-director of the film Allies (2009). I received the 16th Fukuhara Award for English Literature in 2008.
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Dylan McGee
Associate professor
Research interests
My principal field of research is Japanese literature of the Edo period (1603-1868), with a focus on the history of book publication, circulation and reception. In addition to several translations of early modern Japanese narrative fiction and poetry, I have also published articles on the works of Ueda Akinari (1734-1809), the history of amateur chaban kyōgen performance, and the development of clock-based narrative time in the popular genres of kibyōshi and sharebon (1780-1796). At present, I am writing a monograph on the history of the Daiso lending library, which operated in Nagoya between 1767 and 1899 and rose to status as the largest commercial lender in Japan.
Background
I earned my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Japanese/Chinese) from Princeton University (2009) after conducting research for my dissertation at Kanazawa University (2004-2005). I have been working as a designated associate professor at Nagoya University since 2011.
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Koji Miwa
Associate professor
Keywords
Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism, Morphology, Multivariate analysis
Research interests
As a psycholinguist, who takes an experimental approach to the linguistic issue of how language is "done" in the mind, I am primarily investigating (1) how complex words are represented/processed in the mind, (2) how bilinguals read in one language with two languages in the mind, and (3) how language affects thought. That is, I am interested in the mechanisms by which complex things are processed effortlessly and efficiently in our daily life, which often happens at a subconscious level.
Background
I received a B.A. (Hons) and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Alberta (Canada). I then spent two years in Tuebingen (Germany) as a Humboldt postdoctoral researcher. I have been working as an associate professor at Nagoya University since 2017.
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Remi Murao
Associate professor
Research interests
My primary research area is second language processing. I am particularly interested in phonological processing in spoken word recognition, and the mapping of continuous speech sounds onto the mental lexicon. My Ph.D. work focused on the influence of prosody and the formulaicity of language on the recognition of spoken words.
Background
I received a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Nagoya University in 2009. My first academic position was as an assistant professor at Waseda University in 2007, where I taught English to undergraduate students for three years. Apart from academics, I enjoy playing the violin in an amateur orchestra.
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Akitoshi Nagahata
Professor
Research interests
My area of study is American literature and culture, with a focus on poetry. I have published articles on Modernist and contemporary American poets (including Pound, Stevens, Ashbery and Ginsberg), and post-war American novelists (Thomas Pynchon, John Barth) and artists (Bob Dylan, Woody Allen), among others.
Background
I have M.A.s in English Studies (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and English (State University of New York at Albany). I have been teaching at Nagoya University since 1988.
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Chikako Nagayama
Associate professor
Research interests
My scholarly pursuits combine discourse and visual analyses with community-based research for equity. Informed by feminist, (post)colonial and critical race studies, my work engages with a particular site of cultural production - such as film, music, theatre, school, travel, museum or cultural policy - and elaborates on how the medium, space or policy shapes one's 'place' in society. Having become culturally hybrid yet called upon as a Japanese female subject, colonialism, wars and trans-local solidarity work for anti-oppression are my enduring concern.
Background
- 2009 Ph.D., Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT)
- 1998 M.A., Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
- 1994 B.A., Sociology Major, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan
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Yoshikazu Oshima
Associate professor
Keywords
Japanese linguistics, (Formal) semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax
Research interests
My principal research fields are semantics, pragmatics, and syntax. I have mainly worked on the contemporary Japanese language, with strong interests in general linguistics and typology. The topics I have recently worked on include: (i) the semantics of discourse particles in Japanese, (ii) the usage of anaphoric demonstratives in Japanese and English, (iii) the semantics of marked/biased interrogative constructions, (iv) the taxonomy of "backgrounded" meaning (presupposition and conventional implicature), and (v) the semantic characteristics of Japanese stative predicates.
Background
I am an associate professor of Linguistics in the Graduate School of Humanities. I earned an M.A. from the University of Tokyo in 1999, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2006. I taught at Arizona State University and Ibaraki University before taking up my current appointment, and have been a researcher at Kobe University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the University of Texas at Austin.
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Takashi Wakui
Professor
Keywords
Modern Japanese poetry, Comparative literature
Research interests
I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on modern Japanese poetry. Since then, I have published papers on modern Japanese literature, particularly on its relationship with astronomy and stargazing. I have also translated Japanese poems into English. In the field of animation studies I have written a paper on Terada Torahiko and Oskar Fischinger. As a regular attendee at the Hiroshima Animation Festival since the mid-90s, I have witnessed the evolution of the art form in recent decades as well as gained knowledge about its varied forms around the world.
Background
I received an M.A.in comparative literature from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and cultures from Columbia University in New York.
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David Wright
Associate professor
Keywords
Comparative literature, Creative Writing, Electronic literature
Research interests
I am an author and an academic. I write short stories, novels, electronic (digital-born) literature, and poetry. As a creative writer, I explore experimental literary forms, and have a particular interest in the works of Italo Calvino. As an academic, I have expertise in the following areas: Comparative Literature, Australian Literature, Postmodern Literature, Electronic (digital-born) Literature, the Italo Calvino corpus, American Literature (with an emphasis on the William Faulkner corpus), Creative Writing pedagogy, and Practice-led Research.
Background
I have a PhD (Comparative Literature) from Murdoch University, an MSc (Creative Writing) from the University of Edinburgh, and a BFA (Film & Television) from the Queensland University of Technology. I have been a lecturer (Literature, Creative Writing) at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and an editor of poetry and prose for a special issue of Westerly (UWA). I was awarded the Murdoch University School of Arts Prize for best Doctor of Philosophy thesis with a creative component and the School of Arts Prize for Outstanding Thesis for best Doctor of Philosophy thesis in a traditional research area. For my digital novel Little Emperor Syndrome, I was awarded the Queensland Literary Awards' Digital Literature Prize and Robert Coover Award (2nd prize). I have been shortlisted for various other international prizes and published in multiple creative and academic journals. I am currently co-editor of The Digital Review.
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Junko Yamashita
Professor
Research interests
The field of my research broadly relates to second language acquisition and foreign language education. More specifically, my primary research interests are in factors causing individual differences in second language reading ability, cross-linguistic influence in second language processing, and instruction and assessment of second language reading.
Background
I received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK. I have been teaching EFL (English as a Foreign Language) courses at the undergraduate level and second language acquisition courses at the graduate level at Nagoya University, Japan. I have also been serving as an advisor for M.A. and Ph.D. theses. I was a visiting scholar at Georgia State University and Carnegie Mellon University (USA) from 2007 to 2008.
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Eiko Yasui
Lecturer
Keywords
Conversation analysis, Microanalysis of interaction, multimodality in interaction, Gesture
Research interests
I specialize in conversation analysis, a micro-analytic approach to human interaction based on videotaped conversational data. I am specifically interested in how people employ language and body behaviors to accomplish participation in various conversational activities, such as storytelling, in natural everyday conversational settings where people usually simultaneously engage in multiple activities (eating, cooking, typing and so on).
Background
I received a B.A from Osaka University in English Linguistics, an M.A. from Michigan State University in Communication and a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin in Communication Studies.
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Wei Zeng
Lecturer
Keywords
Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language, history of analytic philosophy, Wittgenstein
Research interests
My current research focuses on the philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science with a practice-based approach. I am interested in investigating mathematical and scientific practices (explanation, understanding of empirical science and mathematics, diagrammatic reasoning, etc.) from a philosophical perspective. I am also interested in the history of analytic philosophy and philosophy of language, with a focus on the work of Wittgenstein, Frege, Kripke, and Carnap.
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