Chiaki Takagi
Ph.D., Principal Lecturer of Japanese and Asian Studies, Director of Japanese Studies
Languages Literature and Cultures
Email Address: c_takagi@uncg.edu
Education
Ph.D in English w/ concentration in Postcolonial Literature and Theory, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
M.A. in African American Literature/North Carolina A&T State University
North Carolina Teaching License in 9-12 Japanese
Research/ Teaching Interests
- Japanese language
- Modern Japanese Literature
- Works of Haruki Murakami
- Japan’s modernization, westernization, and globalization
- Translation Theory and Second Language Writing
Selected Professional Achievements
“Earthquake Nationalism in the Land of Catfish: Earthquakes, People, and Popular Culture in Japan” (Japan Studies Association Journal 2013)