- 清泉女子大学
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- English Language and Literature
Department of English Language and Literature
About the department
The Department of English Language and Literature offers a balanced curriculum of classes in English language skills and specialized courses in linguistics, literature, education, culture, and translation. Class sizes are small and student-faculty relationships are friendly. Some classes are taught in English by native speakers.
Offerings in linguistics include courses in phonetics, sociolinguistics, morphology, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and the history of English.
Literature courses cover a range of British, American, and children’s English literature. A course on environmental literature is also offered.
Courses are offered in teaching English as a foreign language at Japanese secondary schools.
Intercultural communications classes help students to understand culture, intercultural relationships, and communication.
Translation courses help to deepen students’ understanding of both the English and Japanese languages, as well as their appreciation of literature.
Intercultural communications classes help students to understand culture, intercultural relationships, and communication.
Translation courses help to deepen students’ understanding of both the English and Japanese languages, as well as their appreciation of literature.
Faculty
Etsuko Saito
Title
Professor
Field of Specialization
American literature
My research area is mainly 19th century American Literature and Thought. I am particularly interested in the early “self image” of the Republic, and how it gradually turned to form a collection of unique myths through cultural rhetoric around the time of the Gilded Age and onward. Some writers discussed are Twain, Alcott, DH Lawrence and Paul Auster.
Professor
Field of Specialization
American literature
My research area is mainly 19th century American Literature and Thought. I am particularly interested in the early “self image” of the Republic, and how it gradually turned to form a collection of unique myths through cultural rhetoric around the time of the Gilded Age and onward. Some writers discussed are Twain, Alcott, DH Lawrence and Paul Auster.
Hiroko Sasada
Title
Professor
Field of Specialization
Children’s literature in English-speaking countries and fantasy literature
I specialise in children’s literature in English-speaking countries. Specifically, I focus on fantasy literature for children, which includes fantasy works by Edith Nesbit, Lewis Carroll, A. A. Milne, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin, Philip Pullman, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling, and others. I have been studying portrayals of particular aspects of fantasy works, including personified animals, animated toys, imagined creatures, and gifted child protagonists, in order to explore the rhetoric of fantasy fiction that enables fantasists to depict other worlds. My other interests are in fairy tales, myths, film adaptations, picture books, and comics concerning fantasy.
Professor
Field of Specialization
Children’s literature in English-speaking countries and fantasy literature
I specialise in children’s literature in English-speaking countries. Specifically, I focus on fantasy literature for children, which includes fantasy works by Edith Nesbit, Lewis Carroll, A. A. Milne, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin, Philip Pullman, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling, and others. I have been studying portrayals of particular aspects of fantasy works, including personified animals, animated toys, imagined creatures, and gifted child protagonists, in order to explore the rhetoric of fantasy fiction that enables fantasists to depict other worlds. My other interests are in fairy tales, myths, film adaptations, picture books, and comics concerning fantasy.
Takashi Suzuki
Title
Professor
Field of Specialization
Language education studies, Discourse analysis
My research interests are discourse analysis and its application to the teaching and learning of a second language. I mainly study discourse structure, conversation management devices and grammatical phenomena in English and Japanese spoken and written discourse. I often compare English and Japanese in terms of these areas and consider how findings from such studies could help facilitate language learning and teaching.
Professor
Field of Specialization
Language education studies, Discourse analysis
My research interests are discourse analysis and its application to the teaching and learning of a second language. I mainly study discourse structure, conversation management devices and grammatical phenomena in English and Japanese spoken and written discourse. I often compare English and Japanese in terms of these areas and consider how findings from such studies could help facilitate language learning and teaching.
Tomoko Takada
Title
Professor
Field of Specialization
English language teachingApplied linguistics
My research interests center around teaching and testing English based on the CEFR, a comprehensive framework of reference for languages for learning, teaching, assessment. More specifically, I develop tasks that can be applicable in the English classroom in Japan. I am also interested in developing materials for teaching grammar based on a three-dimensional grammar framework, thus committed to combining theory and practice.
Professor
Field of Specialization
English language teachingApplied linguistics
My research interests center around teaching and testing English based on the CEFR, a comprehensive framework of reference for languages for learning, teaching, assessment. More specifically, I develop tasks that can be applicable in the English classroom in Japan. I am also interested in developing materials for teaching grammar based on a three-dimensional grammar framework, thus committed to combining theory and practice.
Kristofer Bayne
Title
Professor
Field of Specialization
Intercultural communication
One interest is intercultural communication. Another is making teaching materials. I am very interested in developing interesting ways to teach intercultural communication.
Professor
Field of Specialization
Intercultural communication
One interest is intercultural communication. Another is making teaching materials. I am very interested in developing interesting ways to teach intercultural communication.
Keiko Wada
Title
Professor
Field of Specialization
English literature, Comparative literature
I am mainly conducting comparative research between English literature and modern Japanese literature. It includes the study of the reception of James Joyce in Japan; the reception of Yone Noguchi in London; the experiences of the Japanese staying in foreign cities. I am aiming for the comprehensive research of cross-cultural as well as literary fields of study.
Professor
Field of Specialization
English literature, Comparative literature
I am mainly conducting comparative research between English literature and modern Japanese literature. It includes the study of the reception of James Joyce in Japan; the reception of Yone Noguchi in London; the experiences of the Japanese staying in foreign cities. I am aiming for the comprehensive research of cross-cultural as well as literary fields of study.
Anna Sasaki
Title
Lecturer
Field of Specialization
Translation and Interpretation studies, Children’s literature translation
Children’s literature translation, Interpretation
Lecturer
Field of Specialization
Translation and Interpretation studies, Children’s literature translation
Children’s literature translation, Interpretation