Japanese Studies
Teaching and research staff within Japanese Studies.
Dr Erica Baffelli
Professor in Japanese Studies
Specialisms: Japanese religions; new religious movements; religion and media; religion and violence; contemporary Japan.
Mr Jonathan Bunt
Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies
Specialisms: Japanese languages and linguistics.
Dr Peter Cave
Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies
Specialisms: School education in contemporary Japan; mathematics education for young children in Japan; history of childhood, education and youth in Japan.
Dr Tim Graf
Lecturer in Japanese Studies
Specialisms: Japanese Temple Buddhism; contemporary Japanese religions; religion and disasters; ethnographic filmmaking.
Dr Aya Homei
Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies
Specialisms: History of demographic science in Japan; discourse of family planning and development aids in 1960s Asia; History of geriatrics and gerontology in modern Japan.
Ms Chiharu Ivison
Language Tutor (Japanese)
Dr Sharon Kinsella
Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies
Specialisms: Cultural language and political symbolism of both mass media and cultural production and subcultural forms and reactions in Japan since the early 1990s; the rise of female cross dress amongst younger men in the 2010s; cuteness and infantilism as rebellion; the educational and class factors behind the institutional and commercial transformation of manga for adults in the 1990s; otaku subculture and Lolita complex subcultures.
Dr Bill Mihalopoulos
Lecturer in Japanese Studies
Specialisms: modern Japanese history.
Dr Mamiko Noda
Language Tutor (Japanese)
Specialisms: Language education policies in Japan; critical discourse analysis; bi- and multilingual turn of applied linguistics; use of translation in language teaching.
Ms Ai Suzuki
Language Tutor (Japanese)
Ms Nozomi Yamaguchi
Senior Language Tutor (Japanese)
Specialisms: Intercultural communications; politeness/impoliteness theory; business communication.
Honorary and Emeritus staff
Professor Ian Reader
Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies