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Keiko Nakano, M.A.,
Visiting Instructor in Japanese
Kobe, Japan, native, Keiko Nakano has been
teaching at John Carroll University since 1992. She teaches all
levels of Japanese courses: Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Japanese.
She also teaches Japanese Society and Culture, and Japanese Popular
Culture. Her special interests are in the area of transnational
writers' works and post war Japanese writers. Her recent articles
are "Where is My Home: Language and Identity," Proceedings
of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies (2002), and "Nomadic
Writers in Japan and America: Language, Identity and Home,"
International Journal of the Humanities 1 (2003). She is in the process
of completing her dissertation, "Emergence of a New Stream in
Contemporary Japanese Literature: Language, Identity, and Home," (in
comparative literature at the Pennsylvania State University).
Fall 2009
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