Kensuke Takita (瀧田健介)

Academic Background

    2004.3                     B.A., Faculty of Letters, Keio University, Japan.

    2006.3                     M.A., Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University, Japan.

    2008.9 - 2009.4   Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.

    2010.3                     Ph.D., Graduate School of Humanities, Nanzan University, Japan. 

Employment

    2008.4 - 2010.3    JSPS Doctoral Course Student Research Fellow (Institution: Graduate School of Humanities, Nanzan University).

    2010.4 - 2012.3    JSPS Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Institution: Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University).

    2012.4 - 2015.3    Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Law and Economics, Mie University.

    2015.4 - 2019.3   Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Meikai University.

    2015.4 - 2019.3   Associate Professor, Graduate School of Applied Linguistics, Meikai University.

    2019.4 - 2023.3  Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Doshisha University. 

    2023.4 - present  Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Doshisha University.

    2023.4 - present  Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Doshisha University.

Academic Services

    2008 - 2013        Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

    2012 - present    Affiliated researcher, Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University.

    2014 - present    Editorial board member for Journal of East Asian Linguistics. 

Major Research Interests

    Syntactic Theory, Comparative Syntax  

Dissertation

    Cyclic Linearization and Constraints on Movement and Ellipsis

    Committee: Mamoru Saito (chair), Keiko Murasugi, Masatake Arimoto, Hisatsugu Kitahara