Course Information  

At Pacific University, all faculty teach a variety of different courses. Typically, we do not use graduate 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 Pacific University, 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