Japan

Fumiko Nazikian

Fumiko Nazikian

Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Director of External Relations (Japanese Language Program)

Office: 516 Kent Hall
Office Hours: M/W 1:00-2:00, or by appointment
Phone: (212) 854-5502
Email: fn2108@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Japanese Linguistics, University of Sydney
MA: Japanese Linguistics and Japanese Language Pedagogy, Australian National University

Classes Taught

JPN UN1001 Introductory Japanese A
JPNS UN1101 & UN1102 First Year Japanese
JPNS UN2201 & UN2202 Second Year Japanese
JPNS UN3005 & UN3006 Third Year Japanese
JPNS GU4017 & GU4018 Fourth Year Japanese
JPNS G4010 & G4214 Japanese Language Pedagogy

Research Interests

Japanese Linguistics (pragmatics)
Language Pedagogy

Fumiko Nazikian joined Columbia University in 2004 and served as the director of the Japanese language program until Spring 2015. In addition to regular language courses, she regularly teaches at the Columbia Summer M.A. program in Japanese Pedagogy. Prior to arriving at Columbia, she was a senior lecturer at Princeton University for 16 years. She has also taught at the Australian National University, the University of Sydney, and the University of New South Wales. Her research interest is in linguistic pragmatics focusing on topics such as discourse analysis and exploring links between linguistics and language pedagogy. She has acted as a reviewer for the AP Japanese Language and Culture Course and served as a committee member for the Japanese SAT. She has served as a reviewer for the AATJ Journal, Japanese Language and Literature, Pragmatics and Journal of Pragmatics. She was a board member of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) for 2008 – 2012. She currently serves on the AATJ as the co-director of the AATJ Spring Conference.

Publications

A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese (co-editor, Routledge, 2023)

Social Networking Approach to Japanese Language Teaching: The Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age (co-editor, Routledge, 2021)

“Sentence final particle, yone as an ‘involvement’ marker” in Natural Conversation Analysis in Japanese: Elucidating human communication through the BTSJ Natural Conversation Corpus (ed. M. Usami, Kuroshio Press, 2020)

“Yone as a Discourse-Pragmatic Marker in Blog Messages: An Epistemic and Evaluative Stance” in the Journal of Communication and Media Studies, Vol. 5 (2019)

“How to Develop ’21st Century Skills’ in Foreign Language Education” in Japanese Language and Literature Vol. 50 (co-author, AATJ, 2016)

“Robots can talk—but can they teach?” (Walter de Gruyter, 2015)

Modern Japanese Grammar: A Practical Guide & Modern Japanese Workbook (co-author, Routledge, 2014)

Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course (co-author, Routledge, 2011)

“The Role of Style-Shifting in the Functions and Purposes of Storytelling: Detective Stories in Anime” (Georgetown University Press, 2010)

“Bringing learners’ perspectives into assessments: Self and peer Assessments in a Blog project” in the AATJ Special Issue of Japanese Language and Literature: Japanese Pedagogy  (co-author, AATJ, 2008)

“Danwa ni okeru jootai no kinoo nitsuite[On discourse functions of da detached style in Japanese]” (Kuroshio Press, 2007)

“Developing Learners’ Communication Skills through Story-Writing in Japanese Language Teaching” (co-author, Princeton University, 2007)

Genkokyoiku no Shintenkai [New Perspectives on Language Teaching]  (co-editor, Hitsuji-shobo, 2005)

David Max Moerman

moermanD. Max Moerman

Professor, Chair of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College

Office: 303 Milbank
Office Hours: T 4:30-5:30, W 1:00-2:00 and by appointment.
Phone: (212) 854-5540
Email: dm438@columbia.edu

Educational Background

AB: Columbia College (’86)
PhD: Stanford University (’99)

Classes Taught

AHUM UN1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia
RELI GU4611 The Lotus Sutra

Research Interests

East Asian Buddhism, Visual and Material Culture of Japanese Religions

D. Max Moerman is Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures. He is Co-Chair of the Columbia University Seminar in Buddhist Studies and an Associate Director of the Columbia Center for Buddhism and Asian Religions. He holds an A.B. from Columbia College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research interests are in the visual and material culture of Japanese religions. His current book project, Geographies of the Imagination: Buddhism and the Japanese World Map, is under contract with the Harvard University Asia Center.

Selected Publications

“The Buddha and the Bathwater: Defilement and Enlightenment in the Arima Engi,”
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (2015)

“Demonology and Eroticism: Islands of Women in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (2009)

Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2005)

Matthew McKelway

mckelwayMatthew McKelway

TAKEO AND ITSUKO ATSUMI PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE ART HISTORY

Office: 919 Schermerhorn Hall
Phone: (212) 854-3182
Email: mpm8@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Columbia University (’99)

Classes Taught

HUMA OC1121 Masterpieces of Western Art
AHIS GR8609 Calligraphy in East Asia
AHIS GR8128 Edo Period Painting

Research Interests

Japanese Art History, Urban Representation, Materiality of Painting

Matthew McKelway specializes in the history of Japanese painting. His research has focused on urban representation in rakuchū rakugai zu (screen paintings of Kyoto), the development of genre painting in early modern Japan, Kano school painting, and individualist painters in 18th century Kyoto. Interests in the materiality and techniques of Japanese painting and the early Kano workshop have led to recent articles and a current book project on fan paintings as media for social intercourse and pictorial experimentation. In addition to his research on fan paintings, he is conducting an ongoing study of the painter Nagasawa Rosetsu.

The courses McKelway offers include surveys of Japanese art and more specialized undergraduate courses on painting and Buddhist art. Topics of graduate seminars and lectures have ranged from narrative handscrolls and Muromachi ink painting to the Kano school, Rimpa, and Edo-period painting. To graduate students in Japanese art history and other disciplines he also offers instruction in reading early Japanese scripts (hentaigana/kuzushiji). Current doctoral students have received research fellowships from the Fulbright commission, the Japan Foundation, the Japanese Ministry of Education, and the Shinchō Foundation.

Professor McKelway has been the Ishibashi Gastprofessur at the University of Heidelberg, and has also held visiting professorships at the Free University of Berlin and Waseda University. His Department of Art History & Archaeology page can be found here.

Selected Publications

Silver Wind: The Arts of Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828) (Japan Society/Yale University Press, 2012)

Capitalscapes: Folding Screens and Political Imagination in Late Medieval Kyoto (University of Hawaii, 2006)

Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters from Eighteenth-Century Kyoto (San Francisco Asian Art Museum, 2005)