Education

2016 - M.Ed. - Miami University, Transformative Education (Second Language Acquisition)

1999 - B.A. - University of Findlay, Journalism

1997 - B.A. - Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, Broadcasting

Teaching and Research Interests

• Second language acquisition in Japanese
• Technical translation/interpretation
• Business Japanese
• Japanese calligraphy

Courses Taught at Miami

• JPN 101: First Year Japanese
• JPN 102: First Year Japanese
• JPN 201: Second Year Japanese
• JPN 202: Second Year Japanese
• JPN 301: Third Year Japanese
• JPN 302: Third Year Japanese
• JPN 401: Fourth Year Japanese
• JPN 402: Fourth Year Japanese

Membership in Professional Organizations

• American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ)
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL)

Languages

• English (near native)
• Japanese (native)