European and American Languages and Cultures
Faculty
| Fields of Specialty | Position | Name | Research Interests |
English
linguistics/ Linguistics | English
Linguistics | Professor | Yasuhiro Ieki | English tense,
aspect, and mood literature of Arthur Ransome
|
English linguistics, linguistics, syntax,
semantics | Professor | Masumi
Matsumoto | Syntax and semantics of verbs,
linguistic theory and English grammar
|
English linguistics, intercultural communication | Associate Professor |
Robert Sanborn Brown | Intercultural communication,
bilingual education, motivation
|
Theoretical linguistics, syntax, computational
linguistics, natural language processsing, applied
linguistics | Associate Professor | Jason Ginsburg
| Movement phenomena, computer modeling of linguistic
theory, applications of natural language processing for
language teaching
|
British and American
literature | British and American literature, comparative
literature, comparative culture | Professor | Keiko Azuma | Addictions in
Sex and the City; research on Mary
Wollstonecraft, Raicho Hiratsuka, Akiko
Yosano, Philippa Pearce, Miyoko Matsutani, William Blake
|
American literature | Associate Professor | Kenji Hashimoto | Contemporary
American literature with a focus on Saul Bellow,
American short stories, American regional
studies
|
American affairs | International
Political Science,
history of diplomacy, American studies
| Professor | Bunji Abe
| History of Japanese-American Relations
|
History of International relations, history of
American diplomacy, US-East Asian relations
| Associate Professor |
Xiaohua Ma | US-East Asian relations,
Asian-American studies, US-China-Japan triangle
relations
|
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German culture |
German literature and cultural theory | Professor | Hajime
Kamei | Study of Noncence verse with a focus on Jean
Paul; literary theory
|
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French language and culture
|
French language, French language literature
| Associate Professor | Naoko Inoue | 19th and
20th century literature and thought, with a focus on
Paul Valery
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