| Dr. Martin Adam |
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Indian Buddhism. Recent research has focused on Buddhist ethics, and meditation theory and practice.
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| Dr. Michael Bodden |
[Indonesia, Southeast Asia: general] |
Cultural movements in Indonesia and the Philippines; language, literature, culture, and performing arts of Island Southeast Asia. |
| Dr. Leslie Butt |
[West Papua/ Irian Jaya] |
Medical anthropology; gender, sexuality and reproduction; state/indigenous relations. |
| Dr. Katsuhiko Endo |
[Japan] |
Theory of capitalism; history of thought; modern Japan and Asia |
| Ms. Yasuko France |
[Japan] |
Teaching Japanese as a second language. |
| Dr. Timothy Iles |
[Japan] |
Japanese cinema and contemporary fiction. |
| Ms. Mika Kimura |
[Japan] |
Japanese language and culture. |
| Dr. Richard King |
[China] |
Modern and contemporary Chinese fiction and popular culture. |
| Dr. Tsung-Cheng Lin |
[China] |
Premodern Chinese poetry, Ming and Qing vernacular novels, early Chinese narratives, and traditional Chinese and modern European narrative theories. |
| Dr. Chris Morgan |
[Oceania: especially Fiji, Tonga] |
Exchange theory, political systems, clan social systems, land tenure, commoditisation, ethnography and world history. |
| Dr. Hiroko Noro |
[Japan] |
Research interests include sociolinguistics, sociology of langauge, Japanese linguistics, intercultural communication, and second-language pedagogy. Her most recent research has focused on the question of language and ethnic identity, especially as language maintenance relates to the very nature of cultural identity within a pluralistic or multicultural society. |
| Ms. Keiko Ota |
[Japan] |
Japanese as a second language. |
| Dr. Cody Poulton |
[Japan] |
Meiji-era and contemporary Japanese literature, especially the work of Izumi Kyoka; traditional Japanese poetics and theatre; contemporary theatre. |
| Mrs. Nozomi Riddington |
[Japan] |
The Use of English language in Contemporary Japanese Pop music; Biito Takeshi's movies; "Namban" theme in modern Japanese literature. |
| Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj |
[Southeast Asia] |
Globalization, religion, transnationalism, ethics, development, Islam, the state |
| Mrs. Karen Tang |
[China, Taiwan] |
Chinese language teaching through cultural perspectives; pre-modern Chinese history. |
| Dr. Jun Tian |
[China] |
Applied linguistics, second language acquisition, classroom-based research, and Chinese linguistics. |