Education

Ph.D. in English, Composition & TESOL, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

• Primary Area: Second Language Writing
• Secondary Area: Rhetoric and Composition
• Dissertation: Revisiting haiku: The contribution of composing haiku to L2 academic literacy development 

M.A. in English, TESOL, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

• Primary Area: TESOL (Learner and Teacher Autonomy)

B.A. in Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, JAPAN

• Undergraduate Thesis: Learner strategies for learner autonomy

Academic Appointments

Tenure-Track / Tenured  Appointments:

Associate Professor, Department of English, Aoyama Gakuin University (2022-Present)

Associate Professor, Higher Education Center, Gunma University (2017-2022)

Assistant Professor, Higher Education Center, Gunma University (2011-2016)

Administrative Positions:

Chair of Foreign Language Education, Gunma University (2019-2021)

Other Academic Appointments:

Adjunct Instructor of TESOL, College of Education, Psychology and Human Studies, Aoyama Gakuin University (2020-2022)

Adjunct Instructor of TESOL, Department of English, Kanda University of International Studies (2017-2022)

Adjunct Instructor of English, Faculty of Business Administration, Aoyama Gakuin University (2013-2022)

Adjunct Instructor of TESOL, School of Education & Distance Learning Division, Meisei University (2018-2020)

Adjunct Instructor of TESOL, Department of English Language and Literature, Prefectural University of Kumamoto (2013)

Instructor of Japanese as a Foreign Language, Department of Critical Languages, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2006-2009)