Japanese at
Hamilton
Japanese at
Hamilton
Faculty
Masaaki Kamiya, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Japanese
Masaaki Masaaki Kamiya has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Maryland at College Park. His current research focuses on scope interactions in nominalization in Japanese and the acquisition processes of Japanese universal quantifier and negative polarity items. Kamiya's recent articles include "Verbal Nouns in Japanese Are So Called for Good Reasons," Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 4, MITWPL 55, 25 - 36 (co-authored with Seiki Ayano), "DP goal, PP goal, and vP Internal Structure in Japanese," SICOGG: 99-106, "Nominalization and Case Marking in Japanese," CLS 41: 207-221, "Syntactic categories and argument structures of verbal nouns in Japanese Light Verb Construction" in Journal of Japanese Linguistics 21, among others. Kamiya was awarded a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan (PI Akemi Matsuya, Takachiho University) to conduct the acquisition processes of Japanese universal quantifier and negative polarity items.
Kyoko Omori, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Japanese
Kyoko Omori earned her doctorate in Japanese literature from the Ohio State University in 2003. Her research focuses on 20th-century literary and popular culture, with an emphasis on mass media. She is currently completing a book titled Detecting Modanizumu: New Youth Magazine, Tantei Shôsetsu, and The Culture of Japanese Vernacular Modernism, 1920-1950. In addition, her recently published articles include “‘Finding Our Own English’: Migrancy, Identity, and Language(s) in Itô Hiromi’s Recent Prose” (2007) and “Higuchi Ichiyô’s Journal Entries” (2006). She has been awarded a research grant from The Miller Center for Historical Studies and the McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland. Currently she holds a long-term Postdoctoral Fellowship from the JSPS/SSRC. Omori was also trained in Japanese language pedagogy and is a recipient of the Hamako Ito Chaplin Award, a national award recognizing excellence in teaching Japanese.
Mari Shudo
Visiting Lecturer
Wakana Maekawa earned her master's degree in applied linguistics from Texas Tech University. In 2006, she received her certificate as a Japanese Language Teacher from Japan Educational Exchanges and Services, and Alliance for Language Learning and Educational Exchange after completing the teacher training program at Portland State University in 2007. Previously Maekawa taught beginning and intermediate Japanese classes at Texas Tech University for two years as a graduate instructor. Her interests include Japanese language pedagogy, second language acquisition and corrective feedback.
