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Terumi Imai, holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Linguistics. Her doctoral dissertation is a sociolinguistic study of Japanese vowel devoicing. She recently presented a paper, which came from her doctoral dissertation, at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 33 conference held at the University of Michigan in October. She came to Wittenberg University in 2003 as a Visiting Instructor. She taught elementary and intermediate Japanese at Michigan State University as a teaching assistant for four years and currently teaches first-year and fourth-year Japanese courses at Wittenberg. She also taught in Kanazawa, Japan, in the summer 2004, in an intensive Japanese program at Kanazawa Institute of Technology. Kanazawa is known as "a little Kyoto", where old temples, shrines, and houses are preserved, and she enjoyed her stay very much, walking around the old neighborhood, visiting temples, shrines, and the Kanazawa castle, and trying the local cuisine (Kaga-ryoori). Click here to contact her via e-mail. Tel.: (937) 327-7397. Office: 209 Hollenbeck Hall. |
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Masako Hoye earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2008. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese at Wittenberg University for the 2009/2010 academic year. Her doctoral dissertation explored the notion of the Japanese subject in Japanese conversation taking a discourse-functional approach. Her specialty is discourse syntax in Japanese. In addition to the further examination of her dissertation topic, her research goals also include the development of a comprehensive theory concerning the so-called ‘case-marking system’ in Japanese. Before arriving at Wittenberg, she taught Japanese language courses at the University of North Texas as a Lecturer, where she also developed a minor in Japanese. She also taught linguistics courses at the University of Colorado, Boulder, both as a Teaching Assistant and as an Instructor. One of the courses she taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder was an advanced course on Japanese linguistics. She taught at Bucknell University for the 2008/2009 academic year right after earning her Ph.D. There, she taught all levels of Japanese.She truly respects, appreciates, and is fully committed to an education in the liberal arts for all undergraduate students. Tel.:937-513-6103. Office: 208 Hollenbeck Hall. |
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Amy G. Christiansen, former Department Chair and Associate Professor of Japanese,
is a specialist in classic, premodern, and modern literature, as well as narrative
theory. She teaches courses in Japanese language, Japanese literature, and
Japanese literature in translation and is director of Women's
Studies. A recipient of Phi Beta Kappa research award and Japanese
government scholarships, her research and professional papers have focused
on contemporary Japanese women writers and the metaphoric use of figures
from Japanese folklore in contemporary fiction. Christiansen received her
B.A. at St. Olaf College and her M.A. and Ph. D. from the
University of California, Berkeley. She joined the Wittenberg faculty in
1993. Click here to contact
her via e-mail. Tel.: (937) 327-6130. Office: 208 Hollenbeck Hall.
