Kana Toda Pierce

Adjunct Lecturer in Japanese

Email: ktp2111@columbia.edu
Office Hours: By appointment

Educational Background

M.A. in Japanese Pedagogy, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2019
B.A. in British and American Literature, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, 2003

Research Interests

Japanese Language Pedagogy
Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)

Kana Toda Pierce holds a B.A. from Meiji University and an M.A. in Japanese Pedagogy from Columbia University. She taught English at junior and senior high schools in Nagasaki, Japan, for eight years. She also worked as a Japanese-English translator for eight years, translating anime-, manga-, and mobile game-related content. She has taught Japanese at Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and as a substitute lecturer at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Princeton University. She currently teaches Japanese at Japan Society and Princeton Community Japanese Language School.