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.
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.