Notes on Contributors
Joff P. N. Bradley
is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Language Studies at Teikyo University, Tokyo. He is the co-author of Deleuze and Buddhism with Tony See and co-writer of A Pedagogy of Cinema with David R. Cole. He has co-edited Educational Philosophy and New French Thought and Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education with the same author. Bradley is a visiting professor at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, India, and a visiting research fellow at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea.
Michael Dancsok
has been teaching content-based language courses in Japan for the past fifteen years. He has a M.A. in Media Studies from Concordia University in Canada and a Masters in Applied Linguistics from the University of Technology Sydney. His research interests include the films of Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett, CLIL, assessing intercultural competency and curriculum development for mobilization. Michael is currently living in Regina, Canada.
Maria Grajdian
is Associate Professor of Media Studies & Anthropology of Subculture(s) at Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences. Her research and teaching focus on Japanese contemporary culture (Takarazuka Revue, Ghibli Studio, Murakami Haruki, Shinkai Makoto), the history of knowledge (Japanese encyclopaedias) and the dynamics of identity in late modernity. Recent publications include a number of research articles in academic journals as well as books on contemporary Japanese culture such as After Identity: Three Essays on the Musicality of Life and Cyberspaces of Loneliness: Love, Masculinity, Japan(both 2019).
Chiyo Hayashi
obtained her Ed.D. from Temple University, Japan. She is currently Professor at Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. She has been interested in researching various aspects of individual differences of language learners including motivation, beliefs, and self-regulation. Her recent research topics include Japanese music majors’ intrinsic motivation for learning English, Japanese college students’ beliefs for learning English and EFL learners’ perceptions of choice in the English classroom.
Sarah Holland
is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and American Literature at Toyo University. She holds an Ed.D. in TESOL from Temple University, Japan. Her research interests include classroom dynamics, especially from an ecological perspective, the teaching of L2 writing and task-based language learning.
Michael Hood
is Associate Professor of English at Nihon University, College of Commerce, in Tokyo. His research interests include advanced academic literacy acquisition in a second language, linguistic and affective benefits of short- and long-term study abroad, narrative inquiry and mentoring at the graduate level.
James R. Hunt
is currently lecturer in the Department of Global Innovation Studies at Toyo University, in Tokyo, where he teaches English and 21st Century Literacy Skills. His research interests include SLA, literacy development, multiliteracies, extensive reading, task-based learning and CLIL.
David Kennedy
is Associate Professor at Nihon University, College of Commerce, in Tokyo. He has been teaching and creating in Japan for over 25 years. His research interests include social semiotics, philosophy of education, CLIL and media theory. He is one of the founders of the New Tokyo Group, a focal point for higher education professionals who share a social semiotic vision for language pedagogy in Japan and beyond.
Joanne May Sato
is a lecturer at Toyo University. She is interested in how the metaphor of complexity can help in the semantic research of second language classrooms and the discourses which take place within them. Her greatest desire is to have the research process and findings have immediate positive consequences in the classroom, not only in her own context, but also in that of others who read the research.
Christophe Thouny
is Associate Professor at Ritsumeikan University. His field of interest covers East Asian media and urban cultures, Japanese literature, ecocriticism and critical theory. He is co-editor of Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Life after Fukushima (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), a collective volume that examines cultural and urban politics of Fukushima Japan in the age of the planetary. He is currently working on a monograph on cartographies of Modern Tokyo (1923–1970) in urban ethnography (Kon Wajirō) and Japanese modern literature.
Glenn Toh
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, has for the better part of three decades taught English as a foreign language, English for academic purposes as well as lectured on language teacher education programs in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Laos, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. He has published widely in various areas in applied linguistics and language teacher education including language, ideology, power and identity, and maintains a keen interest on developments in these areas.
Reiko Yoshihara
is Professor at Nihon University, College of Commerce. She holds an Ed.D. in TESOL from Temple University Japan. Her research interests include feminist pedagogy in TESOL, teaching gender issues in EFL contexts and teacher identity. She has published The Socially Responsible Feminist EFL Classroom: A Japanese Perspective on Identities, Beliefs, and Practices (Multilingual Matters, 2017).