Faculty Members: Academic Areas and Research Topics
Graduate School of Humanities Major in English Literature
Kiyoshi Ishikawa
Professor
Theoretical linguistics (syntax and meaning theory), psycholinguistics (phonetic perception, syntactic processing)
Experimental measurement of acceptability; top-down perceptual and cognitive processing; etc.
Brian Wistner
Professor
Applied linguistics (second-language acquisition theory, English-teaching studies)
Language-test validity, task-based language teaching, etc.
Takako Kawasaki
Professor
Theoretical linguistics (generative phonology, second-language acquisition theory)
Phonetic effects of phonological comparison, phonological acquisition in second language learners, etc.
Michi Shiina
Professor
English-language studies (stylistics, pragmatics, and historical pragmatics theory, sociolinguistics)
Research into historical pragmatics of modern English colloquial expressions
Maki Tonegawa
Professor
American literature
Regional and racial diversity and gender as reflected in the American novel
Shizuo Nicchu
Professor
German literature, comparative literature
Works of Botho Strauss, Franz Kafka, and Paul Auster; literary theory; comparative art
Keita Hatooka
Professor
American literature, environmental literature, pop culture criticism
Environmental Critical Reading of Postmodern Fiction, History and Theory of Adaptation
Hiroji Fukumoto
Professor
English Linguistics
History of the English Language, Grammaticalization, Historical Pragmatics
Hisashi Ozawa
Associate Professor
British Literature
British fiction since the 19th century, modern and contemporary utopian literature
Naoto Kojima
Associate Professor
American literature
American realist literature, history and theory of the novel
Takako Kondo
Lecturer
Theoretical linguistics (second-language acquisition theory）
Second language acquisition of argument structure
Yuki Tanaka
Lecturer
British and American literature
Modern poetry, lyric poetry theory