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    • Kaoru HORIE
    • Kaoru HORIE
      Professor
    • Profile
      Kaoru Horie received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California in 1993. He is currently a professor of Linguistics at Nagoya University. He was formerly at Tohoku University, where he served as the director of the Center of Excellence (COE) program in humanities and promoted interdisciplinary studies on language, cognition, brain and typology. Horie’s research interest centers around: (i) a typological and contrastive analysis of complex sentences and grammaticalization phenomena in Asian and European languages, including English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Khmer, Marathi, Mongolian, Vietnamese, and (ii) the pragmatics/grammar interface.
    • Field
      Linguistic typology, contrastive linguistics, cognitive linguistics, grammaticalization and language contact, pragmatics/grammar interface
    • Course
      This class situates the Japanese language and its socio-linguistic practices within the context of recent findings in Linguistic Typology, a discipline that inquires into language universals and cross-linguistic variation, and Cognitive-Functional Linguistics.
    • Liang Chua MORITA
    • Liang Chua MORITA
      Associate Professor
    • Profile
      Liang Chua Morita is currently an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Languages and Cultures at Nagoya University. She has a DPhil and MPhil in Linguistics from the University of Oxford and MA in Linguistics from the University of Leeds.
    • Field
      Liang works on English education and higher education in Japan. She recently published a paper on elementary school English. She used to research the Thai Chinese community and co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language€(Walter de Gruyter)€on Thai sociolinguistics in 2007.
    • Course
      She will be teaching Introduction to Sociolinguistics and Introduction to Bilingualism. Fundamental theoretical issues will be covered as well as more specialised topics, depending on student interests. Analysis and discussion will be emphasised.
    • Katsuo TAMAOKA
    • Katsuo TAMAOKA
      Professor
    • Profile
      Katsuo Tamaoka completed his Ph.D. in the area of lexical access by Japanese children at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1990.
      Since then, he has been a lecturer at Matsuyama University, an associate professor and a full professor at Hiroshima University, a professor at Reitaku University and a professor at Naogya University from 2009 to present. He belongs to various societies such as Psychonomic Society, the Linguistic Society of Japan, and Japanese Cognitive Science Society.
    • Field
      Katsuo Tamaoka has specialized in psycholinguistics, the interdisciplinary study of psychology and linguistics, to investigate how humans are able to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. Due to the nature of this discipline, multiple languages, such as Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Sinhalese, etc., are investigated in the search for universal rules for human language processing. Acquisition of Japanese as a second language by faculty of various language backgrounds are also covered in his studies
    • Course
      The class ‘Japanese Psycholinguistics’ mainly focuses on the cognitive processing mechanisms of the Japanese language at the phonetic/phonological, morphological, phrasal, sentential, utterance and textual levels. Research takes multi-disciplinary approaches of statistics, experimental psychology and linguistics. Students obtain an understanding of these multiple, fundamental dimensions to investigate certain topics in language processing or acquisition.
    • Shunji INAGAKI
    • Shunji INAGAKI
      Associate Professor
    • Profile
      I received an MA in English as a Second Language from the University of Hawaii and a PhD in Linguistics from McGill University, and is currently an Associate Professor at Nagoya University.
    • Field
      I specialize in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), the scientific study of how faculty acquire a second language. I am particularly interested in syntax-semantics mappings for motion verbs and the mass-count distinction in the acquisition of Japanese and English as second languages.
    • Course
      I'll be teaching a course in which to introduce theoretical issues in SLA covering second language data from English, Japanese, and other languages. Implications of research findings for effective second language teaching/learning will also be discussed.
    • Remi MURAO
    • Remi MURAO
      Associate Professor
    • Profile
      Remi Murao is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Language and Culture at Nagoya University. She received a PhD in Applied Linguistics€from Nagoya University in 2009. Her first academic position was as an assistant professor at Waseda University in 2007, where she taught for three years.
    • Field
      My primary research area is second language processing.€I am particularly interested in phonological processes in spoken word recognition, and the mapping of continuous speech onto the mental lexicon. My PhD work focused on the influence of prosody and formulaic sequences on the recognition of spoken words.
    • Course
      This course provides students with a foundation in second language acquisition research. Topics include theoretical models of SLA, bilingualism, second language processing, and comparison of first and second language acquisition focusing on socialogical, psychological, and individual factors. Students are required to read the academic papers scheduled for presentation each week to be able to participate in discussions.
    • Edward HAIG
    • Edward HAIG
      Associate Professor
    • Profile
      I am an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Language and Culture's Media Professional Studies Department. I have an MSc in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Aston University, UK) and PhDs in Ecology (University of London, UK) and Linguistics (Lancaster University, UK).
    • Field
      My current research interests include the language of ecology / 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. The two main theoretical and methodological tools that I use in my research are systemic functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis.
    • Course
      This course focuses on three key factors relating to contemporary media: globalization, power and language. The first of these invites us to take a comparative approach to the study of media texts; the second alerts us to the need to think critically about how media and power are related; and the third suggests that any serious study of media texts must pay careful attention to language. Through this course students will acquire a widely applicable set of skills relating to the critical analysis of media texts.
    • Hiroyuki MITO
    • Hiroyuki MITO
      Professor
    • Profile
      Museum culture staff, Ymanashi Prefectural Museum of Art 1980-1982, Master of Arts (Philosophy), Sophia University 1984, Study in Spain (Classics), University of Salamanca, Spain 1984-1987, Professor, Nagoya University 2007
    • Field
      Japanese Culture, Cultural History, Philosophy, History of the Christianity in Japan, Spanish, Portuguese,
    • Course
      Outline of the Japanese Culture since the first encounter of Japanese faculty with the western civilization in the 16 century. This course will consist of two parts: 1) revising the cultural history of Japan until nowadays; 2) students' monographic studies and their presentations in classroom.
    • Mahito FUKUDA
    • Mahito FUKUDA
      Professor
    • Profile
      Mahito Fukuda. BA and M.Eng. from Kyoto Univ. PhD from Tokyo Univ. Visiting Research Fellow at the Welcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford; Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Inst. and Visiting Professor at the University of Delhi. Publications: A Cultural History of Tuberculosis, A Treatise on Syphilis in Japan, Dr. Shibasaburo Kitasato, Hospitals and Diseases, etc.
    • Field
      Comparative Culture specializing in nineteenth century Japanese and British medical history. He is currently working on cleanliness and water as a cultural history. The topics of his seminar in 2010 are ‘Cultural Interpretation and Representation of Diseases’ and ‘Representation of the Mother in Literature’.
    • Course
      This is a comparative history of tuberculosis with special reference to its romanticized images in Britain and Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries. The way diseases are considered has considerable cultural and historical significance. Medical books as well as literary works will be discussed in order to clarify the meaning of this infectious disease and its impact upon humankind.
    • Simon POTTER
    • Simon POTTER
      Professor
    • Profile
      Simon Potter received an A.M. in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan (U.S.A.) and a D.Phil. in Geography from the University of Oxford (U.K.), has been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London for over twenty years, and is currently a non-tenured full professor in the College of International Languages and Cultures at Nagoya University.
    • Field
      A lot, but not all, of his research since starting doctoral studies until the present has been within the field of cartography, originally historical but more recently contemporary, connecting maps etc. with culture in general, art history, and tourism and leisure.
    • Course
      For the G-30 program, he will originally be offering at least one course about "map appreciation," which will investigate cartography as a craft that synthesizes the arts and sciences and will aim to cover terrestrial and celestial maps, artistic elements, and various ways that maps are used; it will also entail a fieldwork-based project in which students will be required to analyze an illustrated map related to tourism and/or leisure in Nagoya.
    • Akitoshi NAGAHATA
    • Akitoshi NAGAHATA
      Professor
    • Profile
      Akitoshi Nagahata has an MA in English Studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and an MA in English from the State University of New York at Albany.
    • Field
      His area of study is American literature and culture, with a focus on poetry. He has published articles on Modernist American poets, such as Pound, Eliot and Stevens, and contemporary American poets, such as Ashbery and Howe. He has also written about post-war American novelists, including Pynchon and Barth, as well as Bob Dylan and Woody Allen. In his graduate seminars, he has taught multicultural American literature, focusing on Asian American literature and African American literature.
    • Course
      In the G30 program, he will teach a course on literary modernism and the avant-garde. In this course, students will look into the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of modernist/avant-garde movements in the world, including Japan, and learn how to analyze literary texts produced in these movements.
    • Sanae UEHARA
    • Sanae UEHARA
      Professor
    • Profile
      Sanae Uehara gained her MA at Durham University and her PhD at Nagoya University.
    • Field
      She is a specialist in Victorian Literature, with principal research interests in Thomas Hardy and contemporaries. She has published essays on Hardy, George Moore, Mary Braddon and Wilkie Collins, and has recently completed a book-length study of Hardy’s holograph manuscripts and textual variants. She is currently working on Victorian novelists' battles against censorship.
    • Course
      In the G30 programme, she will teach a course on intellectual freedom and censorship, with particular attention to the ways in which these issues are debated by novelists, publishers, libraries, journalists or lawyers in England and Japan.
    • Takashi WAKUI
    • Takashi WAKUI
      Professor
    • Profile
      Takashi Wakui received an MA.in comparative literature at Indiana University and a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and cultures from Columbia University in New York.
    • Field
      He has published papers in modern Japanese literature, particularly on its relationship with astronomy and stargazing. He has also translated poems and a short story in Japanese into English. In the field of animation studies he has written a paper on Terada Torahiko and Oskar Fischinger. A regular attendee at the Hiroshima animation festival since mid 90s, he has witnessed the evolution of the art form in recent years as well as gained knowledge about its varied forms around the world.
    • Course
      The course on world animation will focus on the three major traditions of animation, namely the U.S.A., Europe and Japan. We will discuss cultural backgrounds, techniques, relationships with other art forms, etc. Excellent works are being created today by independent animators armed with the latest 3D technology. But in order to evaluate them properly we need to look back and study history.
    • Satoshi FUSE
    • Satoshi FUSE
      Associate Professor
    • Profile
      Satoshi Fuse received a Bachelor of Law at Keio University, MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the University of Essex, PhD at the University of Essex.
    • Field
      His research focuses on political theory; particularly on the studies of contemporary democracy which take in-depth philosophical, psychoanalytic, as well as historico-sociological approaches.
    • Course
      Fuse will be teaching a course on the philosophical backgrounds of modern/contemporary Japan. Specific topics will vary depending upon the students' interest, but an introduction to the Japanese intellectual history of the late 19th to the early 20th century may well be included.
    • Takayuki IKEGAWA
    • Takayuki IKEGAWA
      Associate Professor
    • Profile
      Takayuki Ikegawa is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Nagoya University and Director of Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences. He has an MA in Design Engineering from Tohoku University of Art and Design. His research interests lie in mainly in the film and animation production as an educational method for self-expression, design and the sciences. He has also created numerous works in various media.
    • Field
      Design Science, Visual Communication Design
    • Course
      Field Informatics is new academic area that aims to propose the solution from the aspect of informatics to various problems of fields. In this subject, students will work to develop innovative communication designs based on ethnographic research. This course encourages cross-disciplinary collaboration between students from different fields.
    • Chikako MATSUSHITA
    • Chikako MATSUSHITA
      Associate Professor
    • Profile
      Chikako Matsushita received her Ph.D in Literature from Nagoya University in 2007 on narratologies and queer readings of modern American novels. She is the author of Kuia Monogatariron (Queer Narratologies; Jimbunshoin, Japan, 2009) and the co-director of Allies (2009). She received the 16th Fukuhara Award for English literature in 2008.
    • Field
      Feminist theory, Sexuality studies, Literature and theory, Visual culture, Subculture
    • Course
      This course aims to offer critical insights into human sexuality expressed, viewed and constructed in Japanese subculture. Providing students with a critical overview of theory and research on gender and sexuality, especially from the first volume of Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality, it will introduce how to analyze “critically” and “academically” the desires and the pleasures that faculty might obtain from various sexual images.
    • Masataka KAWAMURA
    • Masataka KAWAMURA
      Professor
    • Profile
      In 1975 I graduated from Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
      I worked for a long time as a program director and a producer of NHK(Japan Broadcasting Corporation), but my interest consisted in not only to make each TV program but also to realize media-mix, for example publication related to broadcasting contents, or international co-production. In London and New York I was engaged in the business to promote TV JAPAN (international Japanese TV service toward abroad), either.
    • Field
      Study of media and media history.
    • Course
      The dramatic development of broadcasting all over the world is one of the most significant matters in the history of the 20th century. But, if we examine the process of the development of the world’s broadcasting separately, we will come to notice that there are not a few differences among the various regions of the world. In this course, by tracing mainly the history of the US and Japan, I would like to analyze the feature of each society as well as the characteristics of each country’s broadcasting. In short, this class is about ‘Broadcasting seen through society and history’ and ‘Society and history seen through broadcasting’.
    • Toshiya NAKAMURA
    • Toshiya NAKAMURA
      Professor
    • Profile
      Toshiya NAKAMURA obtained his Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia and is the author of ‘German Security Policy: Pacifism and the Use of Force’, numerous articles and book chapters. He has been a visiting scholar at the Austrian Institute for European Security in Vienna, and the Research Institute for Peace and Security, Tokyo. Before joining academic communities, he has worked as a staff correspondent and the Vienna Bureau Chief of Kyodo News, having covered Japan’s politics and society as well as European political and security issues.
    • Field
      His main research interests include interactions between media and politics as well as the foreign and security policy in Japan and Germany. Currently, he is engaged in the three-years-research project on German public diplomacy funded by the grants-in-aids for scientific research from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
    • Course
      This course aims to introduce graduate students to the study of media and politics by providing students with general understanding of the key terms and ideas in the field. Whilst it gives an overview of Japanese and global systems of media communications, it also examines the changing relationship between the media and contemporary political institutions and processes. Major topics include the rapidly changing news organizations; the media’s role in setting political agendas; the growing importance of public opinion; and the emerging professional political communications.
    • Mark WEEKS
    • Mark WEEKS
      Associate Professor
    • Profile
      Mark Weeks has a PhD in English from the University of Western Australia. He has taught cultural studies, literature and academic English at Nagoya University, Kyushu University and Prince of Songkhla University in Thailand.
    • Field
      His main area of study is the cultural functions of play, humor and laughter. He has written on these subjects in various journals devoted to cultural studies, philosophy, literature and humor studies. He is continuing to expand his knowledge and research across cultures.
    • Course
      This course explores play and humor as fundamental elements of human existence and endeavor that are perhaps becoming increasingly important in the context of intensified global change and cross-cultural interaction. While discussing the history of ideas, literature, film, art, philosophy, and science, classes will also draw on students' own cultural knowledge and experiences.
    • Dylan MCGEE
    • Dylan MCGEE
      Associate Professor
    • Profile
      Dylan McGee has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Japanese/Chinese) from Princeton University (2009), and conducted research for his dissertation at Kanazawa University (2004-2005).
    • Field
      Professor McGee’s 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, he has also published articles on the works of Ueda Akinari (1734-1809), the history of amateur chabankyōgenperformance, and the development of clock-based narrative time in the popular genres of kibyōshi and sharebon (1780-1796).
    • Course
      For the Global 30 course, Professor McGee will be teaching two year-long graduate seminars—Text and Image in Japanese Narrative and Cultural and Intellectual History of Japan. The first course is a survey of illustrated narrative in Japan, from medieval picture scrolls to modern manga. The second is a survey of Japanese cultural and intellectual history focusing on the early modern and modern periods.