Teaching

CURRENT COURSES

2023-2024 graduate courses at Kyoto Notre Dame University

Literary Criticism

Research Methods (co-taught)

PAST TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING

An up-to-date list is maintained on the CV page 

Undergraduate Courses


2020~2023 Instructor of record ‘Japan Studies’, ‘Intercultural Communication & Adjustment’, ‘Public Speaking’, English Skills (Reading, Advanced Reading), Kyoto Notre Dame University, April, 2020 to 2023


2019-2020 Instructor ‘Cultural Studies in Global Asia’, Ritsumeikan University (Osaka-Ibaraki), 26 September, 2019 to 20 January, 2020


2016 Instructor of record ‘Popular Culture in Japan and East Asia’, Birkbeck, 7 January to 17 March


2012-2015 Instructor & Teaching Assistant ‘Rethinking Japan’, Birkbeck (with Dr. Darren Aoki, Prof. Shinji Oyama, Dr. Nobuko Anan)


Seminar Courses


2020~ Instructor of record ‘Japanese Diaspora Literature,’ ‘American Literature,’ Kyoto Notre Dame University, April, 2020 to present


2020-2021 Instructor ‘English Language & Literature,’ ‘Research Methods,’, Kyoto Notre Dame University, April, 2020 to March, 2021


Graduate Courses


2020~ Instructor ‘Research Skills’, ‘Clinical Medicine / Hospital Training’. Kyoto Notre Dame University, April 2020 to present


2012-2015 Instructor & Teaching Assistant ‘Key Issues in Japanese Cultural Studies’, Birkbeck (with Dr. Darren Aoki, Prof. Shinji Oyama, Dr. Nobuko Anan)


2012-2015 Instructor & Teaching Assistant ‘Of Japanese Descent: Japanese Communities and Identity Outside Japan’, Birkbeck (with Dr. Darren Aoki)


Guest Lectures


2019 Guest lecturer 'Summer English Lectures in Humanities', Kobe University (with Professor Hideyuki Yamamoto), 6 August


2019 Guest lecturer ‘English for Historians’, Kyoto University (with Dr. Kjell Ericson), 8 January


2018 Guest lecturer 'Summer English Lectures in Humanities', Kobe University (with Professor Hideyuki Yamamoto), 10 August


2018 Guest lecturer ‘Race and Ethnicity’, Kyoto University (with Professor Yasuko Takezawa), 23 May


Other Teaching


2019-2020 Part-time English teacher at Doshisha Elementary School, Kyoto, 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020  


2013 ‘Fundamentals of Teaching’ lecturer training workshop, Birkbeck, 7 February to 10 May 


2012-2013 Head invigilator for Japanese language examinations, Birkbeck, 26 & 27 May, 2012 and 29 & 30 May, 2013


2012 ‘Teaching Arts in British Higher Education’ lecturer training course, University of London, 13 January to 30 March


1996-1999 Japanese Ministry of Education Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET) Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Takamatsu City, July 1996 to July 1999