Faculty Profiles Jihyeon Kim open Assistant Professor Translation and Interpreting Studies, Court Interpreting, Language and Law Yanyin Zi open Assistant Professor African Area Studies Ami Kaneko open Associate Professor Cultural Anthropology Kevin P. Garvey open Assistant Professor Social Media Studies, Computer-Assisted Language Learning Masaru Yamada open Professor Translation and Interpreting Studies, Translation Technology, TILT Taketo Ishiguro open Associate Professor Intercultural Communication studies, Organizational Discourse studies Naonori Kusakabe open Associate Professor International Cooperation, Development Sociology and Area Studies (South Asia) Tatsuya Nakata open Associate Professor Second Language Acquisition, English Education, and Computer-Assisted Language Learning Kayo Matsushita open Associate Professor Interpreting and Translation Studies, Media Studies Keiko Hamazaki open Professor Literature and culture of the German-speaking world (particularly that written by immigrants) Hiromi Hoshino open Professor Musicology, Western music history, research on Felix Mendelssohn Naoko Hosoi open Professor Theater studies, Chinese dramatic expression, comparative Asian theater Midori Iijima open Associate Professor Contemporary Latin American history, regional studies Nobuko Ikeda open Professor Japanese language education, educational technology Masako Ishii open Professor Peace and conflict studies, international cooperation, regional studies Fumiya Ishikawa open Professor Theories of French language education, conversation (discourse) analysis Stephan Johnson open Specially Appointed Associate Professor International relations, international development Naoki Kambe open Specially Appointed Associate Professor Communication studies Yuko Kawai open Professor Intercultural communication theory, multicultural society theory Wataru Koyama open Professor Linguistic anthropology, pragmatics, semiotics, sociolinguistics Mie Kuroiwa open Professor Western art history (the Gothic period (13th-16th centuries)) Hyan-jin Lee open Professor East Asian film, popular culture, sociology Ron Martin open Associate Professor English pedagogy, syllabus/curriculum development, motivation, corpus linguistics Chika Maruyama open Professor Japanese language education, sociolinguistics Satomi Mori open Professor Language acquisition, bilingualism Junya Morooka open Associate Professor Communication studies Morihiro Niino open Professor Contemporary German theater Kazuko Ogura open Professor French literature (and literature from the French-speaking world), women’s history Katsumi Okuno open Professor Cultural anthropology Akiko Satake open Professor Irish theater Kunihiko Sato open Professor Linguistics (Spanish linguistics), semantics, lexicology Kayoko Takeda open Professor Interpreting and translation studies Yuan Wang open Assistant Professor Aspects of Chinese-Japanese Cultural Relations as Portrayed in Literature and Images of Japanese in Ancient China Mariko Yamaguchi open Associate Professor Philosophy (linguistic philosophy, behavioral theory, cognitive theory, ontology, etc.) Yezi Yeo open Assistant Professor Military, Gender and Media Studies
