Professional Experience and Activities


Professional Experience:

  • University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations [1996-present]
      • Lecturer in Foreign Languages
        Courses taught: Beginning Japanese I, II, (1st year Japanese) Beginning Japanese III, IV ( 2nd year Japanese ), Intensive Beginning Japanese  (1st & 2nd year Japanese), Intermediate Japanese I, II (3rd year Japanese)
    • Penn Language Center (PLC)[1995-present]
      • Lecturer
        Courses taught: Business Japanese /Japanese for Professions (4th year equivalent), Elementary Japanese, Intermediate Japanese,  PLC- Wharton MBA Pre-term Japanese
    • The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International
      • Instructor [2001, 2002, and 2005]
        Courses taught: Intensive thirty-hour pre-orientation mini-immersion “Boot Camp” Intermediate Japanese class for Wharton MBA/Lauder students
      • Country Assistant for the Japanese Summer Program [2001 and 2002]
  • College Board / ETS [June 9-15, 2008]
      • AP Japanese Language and Culture Reader                         
  • Villanova University, Villanova, PA. [June –July 2001]
    • Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literature
      • Instructor  
        Course taught: a Summer Intensive Introductory Japanese
  • AEON, Hiroshima, Japan [April 1991- October 1992]
      • Full-time English Language Instructor  

Professional Activities:

  • Coordinator of Japanese for Specific Purposes (JSP), Special Interest Group (SIG) at the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ)  (April 2007- present)
  • Organizer and Chair of the Panel “Student Career & Internship Opportunities in Japan” for the students in the Japanese Program (sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Japanese program at U Penn)  (2007)
  • Panelist at the Graduation School of Education Career Networking Fair at the University of Pennsylvania. (March, 2007)

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