Education
2012: Ph.D. in Culture and Globalization, Kobe University.
2007: M.A. in Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Teaching experience
Current (2022-) Associate Professor (jun-kyouju), Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University
2016-2022: Associate Professor (jun-kyouju), Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University
2013-2016: Associate Professor (koushi), Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University
2012-2013: Lecturer (full-time), College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University
2009-2012: Lecturer (contract), Language Education Center, Ritsumeikan University
2008-2009: Part-time Lecturer, College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
2005-2007: Instructor, university/college TOEIC/TOEFL prep courses, Berlitz Japan
Research grants
JSPS KAKENHI Grant: "Explicating high-end English pragmatic competence and material development through conversation analysis of U.S. congressional hearings." (2025-2028)
Hoso Bunka Foundation grant: "A study of fact-checking methods through discourse analysis of U.S. congressional hearings and their news reports." (2024-2025)
JSPS KAKENHI Grant: "Modeling teaching assistant's participation in active-learning university English classroom" (2021-2024)
Hoso Bunka Foundation grant: "Achieving edutainment through broadcasting interaction: Discourse analysis of NHK children's telephone counseling about science." (2021-2022)
JSPS KAKENHI Grant: "Teacher's oral feedback to student's communicative activity in EAP classroom" (2018-2022)
Hoso Bunka Foundation grant: "Discourse analysis of Takata recall hearings and the TV news in the U.S." (2016-2017)
Osaka University Career Boost Program for young researchers: "Conversation analysis of college students' talking about their English learning motivation among focus groups" (2015-2016)
Professional service
Occasional manuscript reviewer for Applied Linguistics, The Modern Language Journal, Applied Linguistics Review, Classroom Discourse, Linguistics and Education, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Pragmatics & Language Learning series, JALT publications, AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics), International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, and Japan Society for Linguistic Science conference.
Research Interests:
Conversation analysis (encompassing sequential analysis, membership categorization analysis, and discursive psychology), Second language pragmatics, Classroom discourse, Second language education