University Courses Taught: 

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UCLA

• Tezuka Osamu and the Origins of Anime/Manga

• Post-WWII Japanese Literature & Culture

• Spirits and Spirituality in Japanese Film

• Washoku / Japanese Food Culture

• Science Fiction in Japanese Film & Anime

• Digital Literature: Multimedia Art, Narrative, and Culture

• Who’s There? Questions of the Other (Enlightenment to the Present)

• Narrating Politics: Genesis, Apocalypse, Utopia in the Nuclear Age

• Exoticism and the Ideology of Aesthetics

• Discursive Foundations of City and Society

• Sex, God, Politics in the Global “Middle Ages”

• Transnationalism and Migration in Contemporary Lit.

• Graduate Seminar: Teaching Assistant Pedagogy/Training

• Interdisciplinary Academic Writing (Advanced)

• Transnational Cinema and Cultural Studies

• Transnationalism in the Americas

• Internationalizing Cultural Studies

• Cultural Studies Approaches to Self and Society

• Heisei Literature and Post-Bubble Japan

• Cultural Responses to Crisis in Modern Japan: Pacific War to 2011

• Japanese Literature, Manga, Anime

• Japanese Civilization

• Consuming Japan: Alienation/Revolution/Salvation

• Urban Culture in East Asia

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Waseda University

• Global Science Fiction 

• Research Fundamentals

• Contemporary Japanese Literature

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Sophia University

• Cultural Responses to Crisis in Modern Japan

• Comedy and Humor Theory in Japanese Literature

• Modern to Contemporary Japanese Poetry

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Josai International University

• Academic Research Methods (Graduate Seminar)

• Branding Strategy (Graduate Seminar)

• Japanese-English Literary Translation (Graduate Seminar)

• Fundamentals of Japanese Literature for Translation (翻訳のための日本文学概論) (Graduate Seminar)

• 喜劇とユーモア論 (Comedy and Humor Theory) (Graduate Seminar)

• 東アジアのコメディー映像 (Comedy Film in East Asia) (Graduate Seminar; taught in Japanese)

• Japanese-English Interpretation (Graduate Seminar)

• Start-up Culture in Japan (Graduate Seminar)

• Japanese Literature (Year-long course: Sem. 1: Modern; Sem. 2: Classical)

• Japanese Animation

• Japanese Art and Literature

• Japan and Asia

• Japan from International Perspectives

• 世界の中の日本 (Japan in the World; taught in Japanese)

• Modern Japanese History

• 世界文学と翻訳 (World Literature and Translation Studies; taught in Japanese)

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California State University, Long Beach

• Transnation / Translation (Graduate Seminar)

• East Asian Modernizations and Eco-cultures (Graduate Seminar)

• Modernizing World Mythologies (Graduate Seminar)

•  Comic Spirit

•  Literature and Music

•  Reading the World

•  Study Abroad: Novel and Film in Society (Japan)

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Roger Williams University

• East Asian Modernities

• Introduction to World Literature

• Literature and Philosophy

• Advanced Literary Theory

• Study Abroad: Japanese Literature and Culture (2012)

• Study Abroad: Image+Myth+Narrative in Modern Japan (2013)

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University of California, Riverside

• Love and Death in Modern Japanese Literature

• Music and Visual Culture in Modern Japanese Society

• History of Japanese Popular Culture

• Advanced Readings in Japanese Literature (4th Year)

• Intermediate Japanese (3rd Year)

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Pepperdine University

• Modern Japanese History

• Modern Japanese Literature

• Sources of Asian Cultural Tradition

• Japanese and Asian Film

• Great Books of East Asia

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Korea University

• English for Computational Linguistics 

• English as a Foreign Language