Japan

Chikako Takahashi

Chikako Takahashi

Lecturer in Japanese

Office: 520 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MTWR 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Phone: (212) 854-5502
Email: ct2423@columbia.edu

Educational Background
PhD: Linguistics, Stony Brook University
M.A: TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University
Classes Taught
JPNS 1002 Introductory Japanese B
JPNS 1101 First Year Japanese I
Research Interests

Second Language Phonetics Learning
Pronunciation in Second Language Instruction
Japanese Information Structure

Chikako Takahashi holds a PhD in Linguistics from Stony Brook University. Her research focuses on how speakers’ pronunciation and perception of their first and second (or third) languages are influenced by their language learning experience. Prior to coming to Columbia, she has taught Japanese courses at Japan Society and Linguistic courses such as Phonetics and Phonology, Sociolinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition at the undergraduate and graduate levels at various institutions.

Publications

Journal Publications (Peer-reviewed) 

Takahashi, C. (2019). No transposition in Harmonic Serialism, Phonology, 36, 4.

Takahashi, C. (2012). Impact of Dictionary Use Skills Instructions on Second Language Writing, Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University, 12 (2).

Proceedings Papers

Yeung, A., Baek, H., Takahashi, C., Buttner, S., Hwang, J., and E. Broselow (2020). Too little, too late: A longitudinal study of English corrective focus by Mandarin speakers. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 5(1). 270-281.

Takahashi, C., Kao, S., Baek, H., Yeung, A. HL., Hwang, J., and E. Broselow, (2018). Native and non- native speaker processing and production of contrastive focus prosody. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (Vol. 3)

Takahashi, C. (2017). Information Structure of Japanese Ditransitives. In Funakoshi, K., S. Kawa- hara, and C. Tancredi, (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 24, Stanford; CSLI Publications

Kao, S., Hwang, J., Baek, H., Takahashi, C., and E. Broselow, (2016). International teaching assistants’ production of focus intonation. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 26, Acoustic Society of America

Filed Under: Japan

Paul Anderer

Paul Anderer

Mack Professor of Humanities
Professor of Japanese Literature

Office: 414 Kent Hall
Office Hours: On leave for the 2019-20 academic year
Phone: (212) 854-1525
Email: pja1@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Michigan University (’71)
MA: Chicago University (’72)
PhD: Yale University (’79)

Classes Taught

AHUM UN1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia
EAAS UN3901 Senior Thesis
JPNS GR8020 Graduate Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature

Research Interests

Japanese fiction, film, and cultural criticism
Asian Humanities

Paul Anderer joined the Columbia faculty in 1980. From 1989 until 1997, he was the chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He has also served the University as Vice Provost for International Relations, as Associate Vice-President for Academic Planning and Global Initiatives in the Arts and Sciences, and as Acting Dean of the Graduate School. He has written numerous articles exploring the culture of the city (Tokyo) and Japanese modernity. His work has been awarded support from the NEH, the SSRC, and the Fulbright Commission. He is currently writing a book on the black and white films of Kurosawa Akira, in their relationship to the Japanese post-war and to the era of silent film-making.

Selected Publications

Kurosawa’s Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films (Pegasus, 2016)

Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo-Literary Criticism, 1924-1939 (Stanford, 1995)

Other Worlds: Arishima Takeo and the Bounds of Modern Japanese Fiction (Columbia, 1984)

 

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Abigail MacBain

Abigail MacBain

Lecturer, Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Office Hours:  W 4:00-5:00 PM, F 1:00-2:00 PM and by appointment
Educational Background:
BA:  St. Lawrence University
MA:  McMaster University
PhD: Columbia University
Classes Taught:
Fall 2021:  Intro to Major Topics: East Asia – Religious Landscapes of East Asia
Spring 2022: TBA
Research Interests:
Japanese Religions, Religious Transmission, Religious Amalgamation, Silk Road Studies
Abigail MacBain is a history of religion scholar specializing in Japanese religions and Buddhist transmission. She received her PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University in 2021. Her dissertation titled “Precepts and Performances: Overseas Monks and the Emergence of Cosmopolitan Japan” focused on the arrivals of several Buddhist monks from various parts of the Asian mainland to Japan in the mid-eighth century and their influence on the religious, cultural, and political affairs of the period. Her current research looks at the role that state protection scriptures and deities played in Buddhism’s spread throughout East Asia. She is also looking at how religion-adjacent material cultural such as musical instruments and artistic motifs contributed to the early Japanese court’s awareness of other peoples, countries, and cultures. Her research has been supported by grants from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Blakemore Foundation, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the U.S. Department of Education via the Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship.