Academic Staff

Chair of Department

• Dr Yasuko Claremont
  Modern literature.

Academic Staff

• Associate Professor Elise Tipton
  Modern social and political history.

• Dr Olivier Ansart
  Intellectual history; Tokugawa history.

• Dr Lionel Babicz
  Modern history, Japanese-Korean relations, Meiji intellectual history

• Dr Hiroko Cockerill
  Translation studies, Modern literature

• Dr Nerida Jarkey
  Grammar and meaning.

• Dr Mats Karlsson
  Contemporary and comparative literature; cinema.

• Dr Chun-Fen Shao
  Migration and Sino-Japanese relations.

• Dr Matthew Stavros
  Premodern history, cities and architecture.

• Dr Rebecca Suter
  Modern literature

• Seiko Yasumoto
  Media, cultural studies and language.

Emeritus Professor

• Hugh Clarke, BA PhD

Honorary Associate Professor

• Sakuko Matsui, BA Konan PhD

Honorary Associates

• Hikaru Suzuki Dunn, BA MA PhD
• Hiroko Kobayashi, BA Saitama MA PhD
• Roman Rosenbaum, BA PhD