Publications - East Asian studies
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| Name | Interests |
| Classical Chinese literature, especially Hongloumeng and its English translations. | |
| My research interests include pre-modern, modern and contemporary Japanese literature and film; ethnicity and cultural identity. I am also interested in Japanese language acquisition and motivation. Current research includes a book on the life and work of the Taisho poet Hagiwara Sakutar?, a research project into how best to teach Japanese film, and a Women's Voices project which is exploring the relationship between poetic artistic expression and the female voice as an agent of advocacy and change in contemporary society. | |
| The history of Japanese language, the history of Japanese dialects, historical syntax and morphology, and acquisition of Japanese as a second language. | |
| Japanese language, education, culture and society. He also has research interests in comparative education in Asia and in socio-linguistics (language policy and planning). | |
| Japanese-Korean linguistics, Interface between grammar and interaction, Unique features of spoken language | |
| Chinese intellectual history; the history of the formation and development of modern academic disciplines in China; the relationship between 'Confucianism' and Chinese cultural identity; the historian's and the philosopher's differing approaches to traditional scholarship in China; the relationship between commentarial traditions and cultural memory. | |
| Korean folk and popular culture, both domestically and abroad, with a particular focus on marketing, music and cinema in the early and mid twentieth century. Also: issues related to cultural policy (including propaganda and censorship). | |
| Chinese literature, classical and modern, especially Hongloumeng and Liaozhai zhiyi; modern martial arts fiction; contemporary Hong Kong literature; translation and history of translation; ancient Chinese philosophy, especially the Yi Jing and Sunzi bingfa. | |
| Chinese language teaching methodology and applying a variety of methods to Chinese language teaching. Investigating the effects of teaching pragmatics in language class from Conversation Analysis perspective is her current research. | |
