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Miharu Nittono
Miharu Nittono
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Office: 520 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 4:00-5:00
Teaching Hours: MW 11:40-12:55, MTWR 1:10-2:15
Phone: (212)854-5500
Email: mn70@columbia.edu
Educational Background
EdD: Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: TESOL at Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: Waseda University
Classes Taught
JPNS UN2201 Second Year Japanese I
JPNS UN2202 Second Year Japanese II
JPNS GU4516 Fifth Year Japanese I
JPNS GU4517 Fifth Year Japanese II
Research Interests
Japanese Linguistics
Japanese “Hedging”
Miharu Nittono is a senior instructor of Japanese at Columbia University, where she has taught all levels of Japanese. She also has experience teaching intensive summer courses in Japanese, including “Japanese Language and Culture” at Sophia University in Tokyo as an invited professor. She has also served as the Administrative Director of the MA Program in Japanese Pedagogy at Columbia University.
Publications
Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course (Routledge, 2011; co-authors: Shigeru Eguchi, Fumiko Nazikian, Keiko Okamoto, Jisuk Park)
“Follow the Old Ways: A New Approach to Kanji Learning” (The Seventeenth Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum Proceedings, 2010)
“We’re doing traditional rakugo!: Striving towards acquiring the ‘five’ skills through performing rakugo” (The Sixteenth Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum Proceedings, 2009)
“Show & Short: A Journey through 10 Years of Student-Written Short Stories” (The 20th Annual Conference of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ20), 2008)
“Contrasting Group Size and Hedge Use” (The Fifteenth Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum Proceedings, 2008)
“Avoidance and Appeal: A Two-Fold Motivation for Japanese Hedging Use” (Sophia International Review, 2007)
“Hedging at Work: How Occupations Affect the Use of Hedging in Japanese Interactions during Non-Work Conversations” (The Fourteenth Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum Proceedings, 2007)
“Two-Fold Conversation Management Function of Japanese Hedging: Speaker-Centered and Listener-Centered” (Humanities Conference 2004 Proceedings, 2006)
“The Golden Mean: Japanese Speakers’ Use of ‘Downtoners’” (Hawaii International Conference on Arts and HumanitiesProceedings, 2005)
“Japanese Hedging in Friend-Friend Discourse” (Teachers College, Columbia University, 2003)
Sonam Tsering Ngulphu
Sonam Tsering Ngulphu
Lecturer in Tibetan
Office: 502-G Kent Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Email: st2855@columbia.edu
Educational Background
PhD: Columbia University
MTS: Harvard University
MA: Central University for Tibetan Studies
Classes Taught
TIBTW UN1410 First Year Classical Tibetan I
TIBTW UN1411 First Year Classical Tibetan II
TIBTW UN2412 Second Year Classical Tibetan I
TIBTW UN2413 Second Year Classical Tibetan II
TIBTW UN2710 Advanced Literary Tibetan I
TIBTW UN2711 Advanced Literary Tibetan II
Research Interests
Tibetan Studies, Religion, and Buddhist Studies
Sonam Tsering Ngulphu has taught topics on religion, Buddhist philosophy, and Tibetan language and literature at monasteries and modern educational institutions in India and the US. He had previously worked as the managing editor of Tibet Journal, an academic quarterly on Tibetan studies, where he also co-edited thematic series on Tibet and British Raj, Tibetan monuments, and a fourteen-issue history of Tibetan art.
Sonam’s doctoral dissertation examined the eighteen-volume Collected Works of Je Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) to assess the role of the texts in the formation of Geluk School in Tibet during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It studied the significant roles that Je Tsongkhapa’s writings have played in establishing doctrinal authority, defining philosophical boundaries, postulating intellectual identity, and reorienting monastic education for Tibet’s largest school of thought and philosophy.
Trained in several languages, Sonam specializes in translation and interpretation with a focus on classical Tibetan Buddhist texts.
Selected Publications
Precious Garland: Buddhist Polity on Life and Liberation (Rājaparikathāratnāvali, Trans & Annot. LTWA, 2014)
Verses of Naga King Drum (Nāgarājabherīgāthā, Trans. 8400, 2020)
Select Biographies, The Treasury of Lives: Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayas. ‘Select Biographies’ include entries published with the National Endowment of Humanities (NEH) Grant (New York: Treasury of Lives, 2018–2023). See https://
Tibet Journal (Managing Editor, 2001–2004)
Tshan rig dus deb (Assistant Editor, 2001–2003)
Tibet Journal (A Quarterly Academic Journal on Tibet Studies), Managing Editor, Vol. 26, No. iii & iv–Vol. 29, No. iv (Dharamsala: LTWA, 2001–2004).
Tshan rig dus deb (A Science Journal for Monks), Assistant Editor, Vol. 1– Vol. 6 (Dharamsala: LTWA, 2001–2003).
