The University of Sheffield
School of East Asian Studies

Distance Learning Tutors (Japanese Studies)

Dr Angela Coutts, BA (London), MA, PhD (Sheffield)

Tutor for the AJS module Japanese Literature and Society. Lecturer in Japanese Language and Literature, she has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at SEAS. Her research interests include modern Japanese literature and society, particularly issues related to gender and national identity. Her PhD thesis was on Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951) and her research interests include modern Japanese female writers and national identity. She was a Monbusho Research Scholar for 18 months at Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku in Tokyo and has worked as a professional translator and editor in the UK and the USA. She has also lectured in English for Academic Purposes at the Universities of Birmingham and Sussex.

Professor Hugo Dobson, BA, MA (Leeds), PhD (Sheffield)

Professor Dobson lectures in the international relations of Japan and is tutor for the Unit “Political Economy” for the module Perspectives on Contemporary Japanese Society and co-tutor for the module International Political Economy of East Asia. His research interests include international history and international relations. He was the recipient of the two-year Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholarship and his research interests include international history and international relations. He is the co-author of Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security (Routledge, 2001) and is the author of Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping: Pressures and Responses (Routledge, forthcoming).

Dr Simon Forth

Tutor for the AJS module Specialised Texts II: Japanese Patent Translation, which he has written, with Graham Healey. Simon did the MA in Advanced Japanese Studies, and then completed his PhD research on ‘Sociolinguistic phenomena associated with loan-words in Japanese’.

Dr Luli van der Does-Ishikawa, MSc (Edinburgh), MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge)

Dr Ishikawa is the on-line tutor (mainly using MOLE) for the AJS modules, Writing in Japanese I, and teaches Writing in Japanese I and II at Residentials in Sheffield and Japan. Her areas of expertise are Japanese linguistics and interpreting/translation studies. Her PhD research explored linguistic and professional techniques in Japanese-and-English simultaneous interpreting.

Ms Mie Kagaya

Mie Kagaya is the on-line tutor for the AJS module, Writing in Japanese II. She also assesses coursework for the Advanced Japanese Studies module Japanese the Spoken Language and teaches presentation skills at residentials in Japan. She has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at SEAS.

Dr Peter Matanle BA, MA (Cambridge), MA (Essex), PhD (Sheffield)

Tutor for the Unit “Business and Economy” for the module Perspectives on Contemporary Japanese Society. His PhD thesis was an empirical study of the lifetime employment system in four large Japanese corporations from the point of view of theories of modernisation, globalisation and
socio-economic convergence.

Dr Thomas McAuley, BA (Sheffield), PhD (London)

Assesses work for the Advanced Japanese Studies modules Japanese to English Translation I and II and is the main supervisor for annotated translations. His area of expertise is classical Japanese literature/linguistics.

Ms. Chizu Whatelely

Chizu Whateley has been involved in teaching Japanese, translation and interpreting mainly in the East Asia Business Society and the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce.
She has also been involved in teaching English/Japanese translation on the University’s MA in Translation.
Ms Whateley is tutor and assessor for language modules in the Japanese Language and Society programme: Japanese the Written Language I and II and Japanese the Spoken Language I and II. She is also the telephone interview tutor for European
students.

Dr Richard Siddle, BSc (Reading), PhD (Sheffield)

Tutor for the Unit “Race and Identity” for the module Perspectives on Contemporary Japanese Society. His research interests include the Ainu and Okinawan minority peoples of Japan, “race” and nationalism, and eugenics in Japan. He is also tutor for the module, Modern Japanese History.

Dr Nicolas Tranter, BA, PhD (Sheffield)

Dr Tranter teaches Japanese language, classical Japanese language and literature, and East Asian linguistics. His research interests are East Asian linguistics, specifically contact linguistics, script, and syntax. He is writer of and tutor for the AJS module, Specialised Texts II: Classical Japanese (bungo).

Ms Jutta Vogt

Jutta M Vogt has been responsible for marking JLS Japanese the Written Language (A), assignments from Japanese into English. She has a Masters degree in Japanese Language and Translation from the University of Bonn, Germany. She has taught undergraduate Japanese in-house and is a professional translator based in Sheffield.

Dr Beverley Yamamoto, BA(London), PGCE (Nottingham), PhD (Sheffield)

Dr Beverley Yamamoto lectures in Human Sciences in the Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University. She had been involved with the Distance Learning Program at Sheffield since its conception. Her background is in sociology, anthropology and Japanese Studies. Dr Yamamoto’s research interests are sexuality and society, gender theory, and more recently the identity and educational experiences of mixed heritage children in Japan.

Ms. Takako Ramsden

Takako Ramsden is a telephone interview tutor for the Diploma programme, based in Kyoto, Japan. She has a BEd from Tottori University and a Japanese Ministry of Education license to teach Japanese as a Second Language. She is both a teacher of Japanese and a translator.