Research in this section is conducted in Japanese linguistics and language education on the one hand, and Japanese culture on the other.
The latter foregrounds studies in Japanese literature (with a special focus on classical literature and Genji Monogatari) and Japanese arts, stretching from early modern music and stage art (centered on the bamboo flute shakuhachi) to visual culture (woodcut prints) and contemporary media arts (manga and anime). Methodologies stretch from contrastive linguistics to metaphor and translation theory, from new formalism to Environmental and Digital Humanities. Due to this diversity, individual projects and collaborations with extra-departmental partners predominate.
