People

  • Academic Staff – Japanese Studies – Languages

    Dr Jeremy Breaden

    • BA(Hons), LLB (Hons), PhD (Melbourne)
    • Higher education policy and management, anthropology and sociology of Japan, Japanese-English translation

    Dr Hiroko Hashimoto

    • BA (Doshisha), MIntAffairs (Tsukuba), PhD (Monash)
    • Applied linguistics; teaching Japanese as a foreign language

    Dr Mayuko Inagawa

    • PhD (University of Queensland)
    • Sociolinguistics: applied linguistics

    Dr Shimako Iwasaki

    • PhD (UCLA)
    • Conversation analysis: interaction analysys (language, culture and social interaction): interactional linguistics: gesture and embodiment (talk and the body): applied linguistics

    Dr Naomi Kurata

    • BA (Japan Women’s University), MA, PhD (Monash)
    • Second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, teaching Japanese as a foreign language

    Associate Professor Helen Marriott

    • MA, DipEd, MEd, PhD (Monash)
    • Sociolinguistics; applied linguistics

    Dr Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou

    • BA(Hons), PhD (Monash)
    • Computer mediated communication; applied linguistics

    Dr Robyn Spence-Brown

    • BA(Hons), DipEd, MA (Monash), PhD (Melbourne)
    • Language acquisition; language assessment; intercultural interaction

    Professor Carolyn Stevens

    • PhD Columbia University, 1995
    • Disability, social welfare and maternal and child health care in Japan

    Dr Masato Takimoto - (Japanese Program Coordinator)

    • BA (Hiroshima), MIntAffairs (Tsukuba), MA (Qld), PhD (Monash)
    • Translation and interpreting studies; applied linguistics

    Dr Shani Tobias

    • BA(Hons), LLB (Victoria University of Wellington), PhD (Monash)
    • Translation and interpreting studies

    Dr Beatrice Trefalt

    • BA(Hons) (La Trobe), PhD (Murdoch)
    • 20th century Japanese history

    Dr Kuniko Yoshimitsu

    • BA (Notre Dame Kyoto), MA, PhD (Monash)
    • Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, language maintenance and shift

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