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ASU
Japanese Faculty
Anthony H. Chambers, Professor (Ph.D., University of Michigan) [CV download]
Courses: Advanced Japanese, Japanese Literature, Japanese Literature in Translation, Problems of Translation, Introduction to Classical Japanese, and graduate courses in advanced readings, literature, and translation 
Research areas: 
-modern Japanese fiction, especially the work of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
-premodern Japanese literature
-literary translation:  Tanizaki, Ueda Akinari, Hirano Keiichiro, other writers
Major publications:
-The Secret Window:  Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki's Fiction, Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1994.
-Translations of Japanese fiction, including:
Naomi, The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, Arrowroot, The Reed Cutter, and Captain Shigemoto's Mother by Tanizaki, Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari,and short works by a number of modern and premodern writers.
-Tales of Moonlight and Rain, a study and translation of Ugetsu monogatari, by Ueda Akinari. Columbia University Press, 2006 (forthcoming) .
Office: LL422B Hours: M/W 2 - 4 PM
Phone: 480/965-0517 E-mail: Anthony.Chambers@asu.edu
Web Page: http://www.public.asu.edu/~achamber/
Miko Foard, Senior Lecturer (M.A. Arizona State University)
Courses: First Year Japanese, Second Year Japanese, Third Year Japanese (JPN 313), Japanese for International Professions (JPN 207), Intermediate Japanese Conversation (JPN 309, 310), Japanese Conversation and Composition,  Media Production (JPN 394 ST),  The Language of Japanese Popular Culture (JPN 394 ST), Advanced Readings in Japanese Religion (JPN 435)
Research areas:
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Japanese Language Education in Korea during 1910-1945
-Japanese Pedagogy
-Japanese Popular Culture and Language
-Japanese National Standards and its Implementation
Major Publication:

-"What Teachers of Korean and Teachers of Japanese Can Learn from Each Other: The Student Centered Classroom." In Korean Language in America 3, 1999.
-"Effect of a Learner-Centered Project, Skit, for Beginning and Intermediate Courses." In Primary Text Compilation of the 1995 Spring Grand Conference of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, pp.19-24. Summarized in Nihongo Kyoiku (Journal of Japanese Language Teaching), 1995.

Office: LL445 Hours:
T 7:40-8:30 p.m.
W/Th 11:40 AM-12:30 PM, or by appointment
Phone: 480/965-6100 E-mail: miko.foard@asu.edu 
Web Page: http://www.public.asu.edu/~mikof
Tomoko Shimomura, Lecturer (MA, University of Oregon)
   
  Courses: JPN 101 First-Year Japanese I, JPN 201 Second-Year Japanese I, JPN 312 Japanese Conversation and Composition
   
  Research Areas: Japanese language and pedagogy, Second language acquisition
   
  Office: LL428 Hours:
  Phone: 480/965-1754 E-mail:
   
Elizabeth Wong, Lecturer (M.A. Washington University)
Courses: First-year Japanese, Second-year Japanese, Intermediate Japanese conversation, Japanese culture
Office: LL447D Hours: MTWTF 10:40 - 11:30
Phone:480/965-3938 E-mail: elizabeth.wong@asu.edu
 
John Creamer (Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Yale University)
 
Courses: Bibliography and Research Method, Intro to Classical Japanese, Advanced Premodern Japanese
 
Research Area: Premodern Japanese Literature; writing and performance in medieval Japan; scribal culture; kambun diaries; noh and kabuki
Office: Hours:
Phone: E-mail: John.Creamer@asu.edu
Etsuko Reiman, Profrssor Emeritus
Timothy Wixted, Professor Emeritus