Chinese Graduate Students
Ph.D. program
DING, Yijun
Email: dingy@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Yue, Ming-Bao
Research interests: 20th-century Chinese literature and gender studies
DONG, Jin
Email: dj415@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Spring, Madeline
Research interests: Second language acquisition; Chinese pedagogy.
FLEMING, Ryan
Email: ryandf@hawaii.edu
Advisor: McCraw, David
Research interests: Traditional Chinese Literature, Literary Theory, and Chinese Philosophy.
HUANG, Shu-Yu
Email: shuyu@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Wang, Haidan
Research interests: Pragmatics, Chinese pedagogy, Corpus Linguistics
HUANG, Yao
Email: huangyao@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Jiang, Li
Research interests: Linguistics, Chinese Syntax, and Semantics, Chinese pedagogy
SUN, Di
Email: sundi@hawaii.edu
Advisor: McCraw, David
Research interests: Classical Chinese Literature, Late Imperial Chinese Literature, Edo Japanese Literature
SUN, Yunhe
Email: ysun@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Wang, Haidan
Research interests: Chinese Pedagogy, Language Assessment and Measurement, Language Program Development and Evaluation
WANG, Nan
Email: wangnang@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Ming-Bao, Yue
Research interests: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Ethnicity and Membership Politics of Koreans in China (Chosonjok), Cultural studies.
WU, Qiong
Email: qiongwu@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Jiang, Song
Research interests: Second language acquisition and Cognitive linguistics
XU, Jia
Email: xujia@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Yue, Ming-bao
Research interests: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Colonial Taiwanese and Korean culture
YE, Xiao
Email: xiaoye@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Jiang, Li
Research interests: Chinese Syntax and Semantics; Classical Chinese
Japanese Graduate Students
Ph.D. program
BARNETT, Tanya
Email: tanyanb@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Haag, Andre
Research interests: Representations of Romanticism in Taishō era poetry, Symbolism, Proletarian literature, Agrarianism, Topography and spatiality, Literary criticism
FORTÉ, Sean
Email: sforte@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Yoshimi, Dina
Research interests: Japanese Pedagogy, Dialogism and Sociocultural Theory in L2 Instruction, Classroom Practices
FUKASAWA, Michiko
Email: michikof@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Fukuda, Shin
Research interests: Syntax, Syntax-phonology Interface, and Morphology.
HANAOKA, Vera
Email: vera2@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Yoshimi, Dina
Research interests: Japanese language pedagogy, Discourse analysis, Learner identity
HATA, Keiko
Email: keiko3@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Kanno, Kazue
Research interests: Japanese Syntax, Psycholinguistics, L1 & L2 Acquisition
HOMMA, Kunihiko
Email: khomma@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Cook, Haruko
Research interests: Sociolinguistics, Japanese as a Heritage Language, Pragmatics, Japanese pedagogy, Discourse analysis, Linguistic Landscape
KING, Sara
Email: saraking@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Cook, Haruko
Research interests: Sociolinguistics/Sociophonetics (Gender and Media), Regional Dialects and Language Commodification, Japanese and Korean SLA, Motivation and Learner Identity
MITANI, Koyuki
Email: kmitani@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Gabriele Kasper
Research interests: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Interactional competence, Second language development, Conversation analysis, Discourse analysis
MUKOYAMA, Erika
Email: emuko@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Cook, Haruko
Research interests: Sociolinguistics, Language Socialization, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis
OTTA, Yoshiaki
Email: yotta@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Ito, Ken
Research interests: Modern Japanese literature, Feminism, Queer theory, Southeast Asian politics, Postcolonial theory
PIZZARO, Francesca
Email: fpizarro@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Ito, Ken
Research interests: Meiji & Taisho period literature, Shōjo fiction, Women’s studies, Girls’ studies
REIDPATH, Hilson
Email: hilson4@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Huey, Robert
Research interests: Okinawan Literature, Race in Japan
SHINKUMA, Kenichi
Email: shinkuma@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Cook, Haruko
Research interests: Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Syntax, and Pragmatics
TAN, Samantha
Email: tanzys@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Cook, Haruko
Research interests: Sociolinguistics (Race, Gender, Sexuality, Media), Linguistic performance & performativity, Indexicality, Visual Semiotics, Ideology, Translation
TANAKA, Justin
Email: jtanaka2@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Fukuda, Shin
Research interests: Syntax with a focus on Japanese, Case-marking, Scrambling, Split intransitivity, and Linearization
WANG, Tian
Email: tianw@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Fukuda, Shin
Research interests:
YOSHII, Ruri
Email: ruriy@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Yoshimi, Dina
Research interests: Japanese Language Pedagogy, Sociocultural Theory in L2 Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics
MA program
AMMON, Nicholas
Email: ndammon@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Haag, Andre
Research interests: Post-colonial approaches to Japanese Literature of Empire, Representations of Queer Identity in Contemporary Literature and Media, Christianity and Meiji-Taisho Japan
CARDELLO, Joseph
Email: jcard@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Haag, Andre
Research interests: Heian literature and Contemporary literature
FUKATA, Thomas
Email: tfukata7@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Cook, Haruko
Research interests: Japanese Sociolinguistics, Japanese as a heritage language, Japanese syntax, and Pragmatics
GIMA, Sakura
Email: sakurag@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Hasegawa, Atsushi
Research interests: Japanese language Pedagogy, Sociolinguistics
IKENO, Runa
Email: rikeno@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Fukuda, Shin
Research interests: Research interests: Japanese morphology, Pragmatics, and Sociolinguistics.
ISERI, JosephEmail: iserij@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Hasegawa, Atsushi
Research interests:
MITANI, NorikoEmail: mitanin@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Hasegawa, Atsushi
Research interests: Pragmatics, Discourse analysis, Japanese pedagogy, Second language acquisition, Sociolinguistics
Research interests: Japanese pedagogy
Korean Graduate Students
Ph.D. program
FOX, Bonnie
Email: foxbonni@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Cheon, Sang-Yee
Research interests: Phonetics (articulatory, sound change), Phonology (prosody, tone, intonation), Korean, Jejueo, Second Language Acquisition (especially relating to Korean L2), Morphology (neologisms), Korean Historical Linguistics (comparative theory within phonology), Experimental Linguistics
HWANG, Chiyeon
Email: chiyeon@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Kim, Yung-Hee
Research interests: 20th-century Korean literature, Literary criticism, Film and Culture, Gender studies, and Feminism
JUHN, Dianne
Email: diannej@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Cheon, Sang-Yee
Research interests: Korean linguistics, Visual arts, Pedagogy, Korean Art and History
KANG, Sujin
Email: sujinkan@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Kim, Mary Shin
Research interests: Sociolinguistics and Korean Conversational Analysis
KIM, HwanHee
Email: hwanhee@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Park, Mee-Jeong
Research interests: Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics (conventional/unconventional use of honorifics), and Korean language pedagogy
KIM, Hyejin
Email: hyejin7@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Kim, Yung-Hee
Research interests: Feminism in Modern Korean literature
KIM, Nami
Email: namikim@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Park, Mee-Jeong
Research interests: Korean language pedagogy and Assessment
LEE, Eun Jung
Email: leeej@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Park, Mee-Jeong
Research interests: Second language assessment, Teaching pedagogy in Korean, Functional grammar, Second Language Teaching with technology
LEE, Jee Hyun
Email: jeelee@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Kim, Mary Shin
Research interests:
MATSUYAMA, Sumire
Email: sumirema@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Park, Mee-Jeong
Research interests:
MIYASHIRO, Tyler
Email: tylerbm@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Kim, Mary Shin
Research interests: Korean language pedagogy, Sociocultural and Interactional Linguistics (Discourse and Conversation Analytic-Based Approaches), Interactional Sociolinguistics (Humor Studies)
PARK, Leeseul
Email: leeseul@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Cheon, Sang Yee
Research interests: Korean linguistics, Second language acquisition, Assessment, Second Language Teaching with technology, and Instructional materials development
PARK, Min-Sung
Email: parkms@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Krolikoski, David
Research interests: Genre literature and Science fiction
PAK, Sooran
Email: sooran@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Park, Mee-Jeong
Research interests: Korean syntax, Semantics, and Pedagogy
PARK, Cheol Rin
Email: crpark@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Sohn, Homin
Research interests:
SMITH, Hye Young (Choi)
Email: hyc@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Kim, Mary Shin
Research interests: Korean conversation analysis, Korean modal suffixes, L2 identities, Emotions in L2 learning & teaching
WOO, Boeui
Email: bwoo@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Cheon, Sang-Yee
Research interests:
YOON, Sue Y.
Email: syoon7@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Kim, Mary Shin
Research interests: Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, multimodality, conversation analysis, and Korean language pedagogy.
YOU, Eunsun
Email: eunsun6@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Park, Mee-jeong
Research interests: Korean language pedagogy and L2 Korean writing assessment
MA program
GRANOFF, Hannah
Email: hgranoff@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Kim, Yung-Hee
Research interests: Women literature, Literature from the Colonial Period, LGBTQ issues in media
GRANT, Amanda
Email: agrant6@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Chung, Han-byul
Research interests: Queer Identity & Storytelling, Translation & Localization, Education, Intersectionality
HONG, Hyejin
Email: hyejinh@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Park, Mee-Jeong
Research interests:
JEON, Young-Hee
Email: jeony3@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Krolikoski, David
Research interests: Bilingualism in literature, Exophony
LEISURE, BriannaEmail: bleisure@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Chung, Han-byul
Research interests:
Research interests:
MOORE, Jameson
Email: jdmoore@hawaii.edu
Advisor: Chung, Han-byul
Research interests: