I'm happy at Fukuoka University, because I’m always meeting young people and introducing them to the pleasures and rewards of literature and culture and English and learning from them new ways of seeing those things.
Exploring culture, literature, and English is a wonderful way to be human and to improve your English skills.
Click on a picture below to enter my teaching gallery and see larger images and read my captions.
Or watch the 28-minute video of a lecture I made for Yume Navi below.
Exploring culture, literature, and English is a wonderful way to be human and to improve your English skills.
Click on a picture below to enter my teaching gallery and see larger images and read my captions.
Or watch the 28-minute video of a lecture I made for Yume Navi below.
I usually teach the following university classes (click on the first two to visit their websites):
- American Culture and Literature (アメリカ文化文学概論)
- American Culture (アメリカ文化各論)
- American Children’s Culture and Literature Seminar (米文学演習)
- English Conversation (英会話)
- Interactive English
- Reading and Writing
- Reading and Listening
- American Historical Fiction for Children
- The Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
- Gender in American Children's Literature
- American Fantasy for Children
- Young Adult American Adventure Fiction
- Families in American Children's Literature
- Language, Food, and Religion in Japanese American Fiction
- The World of Beatrix Potter
- Gender in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Series
- Character, Artifact, and Theme in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Nonsense and Sense in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
- The Growth of Katniss in The Hunger Games Trilogy
- Gender in Virgil's Aeneid and Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia
- The Growth of the Five Protagonists of The Giver Quartet
- An Analysis of the Protagonists, Supporting Characters, and Fantasy in Catherynne M. Valente's Fairyland series
- An Analysis of the Protagonist, Ojibwe Culture, and Storytelling in Louise Erdrich's The Birchbark House series.
- Exploring the Varied Japanese American Experience, Way of Life, and Identity
- The Protagonist, Supporting Characters, and Context of Peter Brown's Robot Books