Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-3:00, Wednesday 3:00-4:00, Thursday 11:00-12:00; and by appointment

McGill University B.A.; University of California, Berkeley M.A. Ph.D.; Chinese language and linguistics, especially language contact, lexical borrowing; writing systems; Southeast Asian historical linguistics.

Office Hours: Monday 9:00-11:00, Wednesday 1:50-3:00; and by appointment

Northwestern University, B.S.; Johns Hopkins University, M.A.; Dartmouth College, M.A.; Yale University, Ph.D. Candidate; postwar Japanese literature and film, especially the writers who first appeared in the early 1950s (Yasuoka Shōtarō, Yoshiyuki Junnosuke, Endō Shūsaku, etc.), the intersection of narrative and history.

Kobe Kaisei Women's College, B.A.; University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), M.A., Ph.D.; Japanese language and language pedagogy, especially measures of proficiency. Professor Kaga has also co-authored a computer program, Exercises in Japanese Counters and Kana, available for download here. She is developing a digitized computer program for listening and reading practice.

Stanford, B.A.; Ochanomizu University, M.A.; Harvard, Ph.D.; Japanese language and literature, especially modern fiction, with particular emphasis on Natsume Soseki, Mishima Yukio, Shimao Toshio, and fiction by contemporary Japanese women. Growing interest in English language fiction by Indian women.

Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 3:00-4:00; and by appointment

Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 3:10-4:10; and by appointment

Sophia University B. A., Tsukuba University M. Ed., Monash University M. A., University of Chicago, PhD; modern and contemporary Japanese literature, cinema, and language, especially autobiographies and works by minorities in Japan.

University of Electronic Science and Technology (Peoples Republic of China); Beijing Foreign Studies University, MA, PhD; University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), PhD; modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film; women's literature; comparative literature; comparative study of literature, philosophy, religion and art--the reflection of Taoism and Zen Buddhism in literature and the arts, especially in contemporary Chinese poetry, fiction and film.

Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 1:15-2:15, Friday 1:30-2:30; and by appointment

Tianjin (Tientsin) Normal University, (Tianjin, People's Republic of China), B.A.; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, (Beijing, P.R.C.), M.A.; University of Massachusetts (Amherst), M.A., Ph.D.; Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature (especially Eastern and Western mythology, Chinese and British/American literature.)

Office Hours: LDC 204 - Monday 4:30-6:30 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday 4:30-6:00 pm.

Office Hours: LDC 201 - Monday 10:00-11:00 am, Tuesday 2:30-4:30, Wednesday 2:00-4:00

Office Hours: LDC 201- Monday 1:00-2:00, Tuesday 11:30-12:30, Wednesday 1:00-2:00, Thursday 11:00-12:00, and Friday 1:30-2:30