HOSEI
Japanese
HomepageFrom the DeanCurriculumOur professors and staffStudy abroadStudent voicesFAQOur professors and staff

AA Academic area   CR Current research   EB Educational background
SC Sample courses   SP Sample publications
Michael Bettridge
Michael Bettridge

AA American Literature
CR Fiction bestsellers and the global community; creative writing
EB MA (CSU, Long Beach)
SC Studies in Popular Fiction; Studies in Poetry
SP "The Short Story is Dead. Long Live the Short Story." Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts. Tokyo: Hosei University, 2007. 79-130. Print.
For details click here.

Peter Evans
Peter Evans

AA Linguistics
CR Second language acquisition
EB MA (Essex)
SC Morphology: Building Words; English Grammer
SP Kuniyoshi Tanaka, Takako Kawasaki, Peter Evans, "Visual factors in the perception of L2 text difficulty", 英文學誌 ("Studies in English Literature") no. 49 (2007), pp. 31-39.
For details click here.

Hiromi Fujishige
Hiromi Fujishige

AA International Relations (Security Studies)
CR Conflict resolution / Peace building; Japan's Security Policy
EB PhD (London)
SC Peace and Conflict Resolutions; Japan's Foreign Policy
SP 藤重博美「国連平和構築委員会」、落合雄彦編『アフリカの紛争解決と平和構築:シエラレオネの経験』(昭和堂、2011年)
For details click here.

Diana Khor
Diana Khor

AA Sociology, Women's Studies
CR The social construction of gender and sexuality; globalization and the development of Women's Studies in Japan
EB PhD (Stanford)
SC Understanding Society; Race, Class and Gender
SP Khor, Diana. 2007. "Doing Gender: A Critical Review and an Exploration of Lesbigay Domestic Arrangements," Journal of LGBT Family Studies, 3 (1): 35-73.
For details click here.

Machiko Kobori
Machiko Kobori

AA TESOL and Second Language Acquisition, Education
CR Motivation to teach and learn EFL/ESL, and curriculum
EB MA (Ulster), MA (York)
SC ESL Education I–IV; Regional Studies B (Britain)
SP For details click here.

Yu Niiya
Yu Niiya

AA Social and Cultural Psychology
CR Ego-threat and learning from failures; emotion and culture; amae
EB PhD (Michigan)
SC Understanding the Human Mind/ Interpersonal Relations
SP Niiya, Yu, Brook, A. T., & Crocker, J. (2010). Contingent self-worth and self-handicapping: Do incremental theorists protect self-esteem? Self and Identity, 9(3), 276-297
For details click here.

Mitsutoshi Somura
Mitsutoshi Somura

AA English Literature
CR Seventeenth century English literature, British culture and society after Thatcher
EB Accomplished credits for doctoral program (Hosei)
SC Introduction to English Literature; History of English Studies in Japan
SP 曽村 充利『釣り師と文学 イギリス保守主義の源流』(聖公会出版、2010年)
For details click here.

Yutai Watanabe
Yutai Watanabe

AA Sociolinguistics, New Zealand Studies
CR Language attitudes, particularly how non-native English accents are perceived and evaluated
EB Accomplished credits for doctoral program (Hosei)
SC English around the World; Sociolinguistics
SP Watanabe, Yutai. 2008. New Zealand attitudes towards foreign-accented English. Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 51. 99-127.
For details click here.

Takeshi Yuzawa
Takeshi Yuzawa

AA International Relations
CR International relations of the Asia-Pacific, International relations theory
EB PhD (LSE)
SC Introduction to International Relations; International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (Special Topics)
SP Yuzawa, Takeshi. Japan's security policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum: The search for multilateral security in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2007)
For details click here.

Taylor Mignon
Taylor Mignon

AA Creative Writing (Poetry)
CR Japanese Modernism
EB MA (Antioch)
SC Special Topics; Japanese Art and History
SP Mignon, Taylor, ed. Bearded Cones and Pleasure Blades: The Collected Poems of Torii Shozo. Los Angeles: highmoonoon press, 2011. Print.


A word from our staff
the staff at the office the staff at the Reference Room
Behind: Masatoshi Iizuka (left), Yuichiro Ehara (right). In front: Akiko Shizume (left), Hiroko Mori (right).
Hisayo Sekiguchi (left),
Jonathan K Lieb (right).
   Thank you for visiting the website. We the staff of GIS are here to help you.
   If you have a question about campus life, registration, or credits, or don't know where to turn, please don't hesitate to visit us at the GIS office (on the first floor of 55/58-nenkan).
   In the GIS Research Room (across from the Common Room), you can find information and get help on study abroad, browse through books or other materials related to your coursework, or enjoy a quick chat with GIS professors who use the room for class preparation and so on. A native speaker of English works in this room as well, so pop in and say “hi" if you're passing by.



Copyright (c) Hosei University. All rights reserved.