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教員紹介

Michael Bettridge

Academic area	American Literature
Educational background	MA (CSU, Long Beach)
Current research	Fiction bestsellers and the global community; creative writing
Sample courses	Studies in Popular Fiction; Studies in Poetry
Sample publications	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

Academic area	Linguistics
Educational background	MA (Essex)
Current research	Second language acquisition
Sample courses	Studies in Popular Fiction; Studies in Poetry
Sample publications	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（藤重博美）

Academic area	International Relations (Security Studies)
Educational background	PhD (London)
Current research	Conflict Resolution/Peacebuilding; Japan's Security Policy
Sample courses	Studies in Popular Fiction; Studies in Poetry
Sample publications	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

Academic area	Sociology, Women’s Studies
Educational background	PhD (Stanford)
Current research	The social construction of gender and sexuality; globalization and the development of Women's Studies in Japan
Sample courses	Understanding Society; Race, Class and Gender
Sample publications	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（小堀真知子）

Academic area	TESOL and Second Language Acquisition, Education
Educational background	MA (Ulster), MA (York)
Current research	Motivation to teach and learn EFL/ESL, and Curriculum
Sample courses	ESL Education I–IV; Regional Studies B (Britain)
Sample publications	『小平市立小平第十五小学校　英語活動指導計画・指導案集　(第5・6学年）』（2009）（監修）田近裕子、小堀真知子、吉田　真理子、佐藤　久美子 For details, click here.

Taylor Mignon

Academic area	Creative Writing (Poetry)
Educational background	BMA (Antioch)
Current research	Japanese Modernism
Sample courses	Special Topics; Japanese Art and History
Sample publications	Mignon, Taylor, ed. Bearded Cones and Pleasure Blades: The Collected Poems of Torii Shozo. Los Angeles: highmoonoon press, 2011. Print.

Yu Niiya（新谷優）

Academic area	Social and Cultural Psychology
Educational background	PhD (Michigan)
Current research	Ego-threat and learning from failures; emotion and culture; amae
Sample courses	Understanding the Human Mind; Interpersonal Relations
Sample publications	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（曽村充利）

Academic area	English Literature
Educational background	博士課程満期退学（法政）
Current research	Seventeenth-century English literature, British culture and society after Thatcher
Sample courses	Introduction to English Literature; History of English Studies in Japan
Sample publications	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（渡辺宥泰）

Academic area	Sociolinguistics, New Zealand Studies
Educational background	博士課程満期退学（法政）
Current research	Language attitudes, particularly how non-native English accents are perceived and evaluated.
Sample courses	English around the World; Sociolinguistics
Sample publications	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（湯澤武）

Academic area	International Relations
Educational background	PhD (LSE)
Current research	International Relations of the Asia-Pacific/International Relations theory
Sample courses	Introduction to International Relations; International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (Special Topics)
Sample publications	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.

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