Teaching

For Current/Former Students

If you are a current or former student thinking about requesting a letter of recommendation, please see this page.

For Prospective Students

I am accepting graduate students for Fall 2026. Please see the lab page for more information.

Courses Taught at the University of Iowa

  • LING:3010 Syntactic Analysis (next offering: Spring 2026; typically every Spring)
  • LING:3195 Linguistics Lab (for undergraduate students in my lab; see here)
  • LING:4900 Honors: Research and Thesis (permission required; see here)
  • LING:5000 Proseminar: Morphosyntax (next offering: Fall 2025; typically every Fall)
  • LING:5010 Introduction to Syntax (next offering: Fall 2025; typically every Fall)
  • LING:6010 Syntactic Theory (next offering: Spring 2026; typically every Spring)
  • LING:6080 Topics in Second Language Acquisition (Fall 2025)

Courses Taught at Indiana University

  • EALC-E 204: Issues in East Asian Society (Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2021)
  • EALC-E 270: Japanese Language and Society (Spring 2018)
  • EALC-E 600: East Asian Language Acquisition (Spring 2019)
  • EALC-J 101: Elementary Japanese 1 (Fall 2016)
  • EALC-J 102: Elementary Japanese 2 (Spring 2017)
  • EALC-J 301/533: Third-Year Japanese 1 (Fall semesters 2017-2018, 2020-2022)
  • EALC-J 302/534: Third-Year Japanese 2 (Spring semesters 2018-2019, 2021-2023)
  • EALC-J 401/543: Fourth-Year Japanese 1 (Fall 2023)
  • EALC-J 402/544: Fourth-Year Japanese 2 (Spring 2024)
  • EALC-J 421/520: Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (Spring semesters 2022-2024)
  • EALC-J 425/525: Teaching Japanese as a Foreign/Second Language (Fall semesters 2017, 2020-2023)

Courses Taught at the University of Hawai‘i

  • LING 120: Introduction to the Study of Language (Instructor of Record, Spring 2012–Fall 2014)
  • LING 320: General Linguistics (Instructor of Record, Spring 2015–Spring 2016)
  • FIL 451: Structure of Filipino (Graduate Teaching Fellow, Spring semesters 2013, 2015, 2016)

Student Mentoring

PhD Dissertation Committee Member

  • Alessia Cherici, 2024, Chinese, Indiana University
  • Misato Hiraga, 2024, Computational Linguistics, Indiana University
  • Ryan Lidster, 2023, Second Language Studies, Indiana University
  • John Rothgerber, 2019, Second Language Studies, Indiana University

PhD Advisory Committee Member

  • Alessia Cherici, Chinese, Indiana University
  • Xiao Dong, Chinese, Indiana University
  • Zeping Liu, Chinese, Indiana University

MA Committee Chair and Primary Advisor

  • Jillian Clark, 2024, East Asian Studies, Indiana University. Thesis: Production of null arguments by L2 learners of Japanese.
  • Miku Fukasaku, 2023, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University. Pedagogy project: Fostering Global Competence by language learning: Corporate culture in Japan. Current position: Associate Instructional Professor in Japanese Language, University of Chicago.
  • Yumemi Hanaki, 2024, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University. Pedagogy project: Teaching Japanese mimetics through audio-visual material. First position: Visiting Lecturer of Japanese, Williams College.
  • Lai Jiang, 2021, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University. Pedagogy project: Explicit training on semantic roles as a tool to teach Japanese passive. First position: Japanese Language Fellow, Earlham College. Current position: Japanese Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University.
  • Akira Kanaya, 2023, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University. Pedagogy project: Teaching conditionals in an elementary school JSL curriculum: In fourth grade science and social studies.
  • Haruna Kyomoto, 2024, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University. Pedagogy project: Pedagogical approach to teaching Japanese predicate forms: When to use the desu/masu form and when to use the plain form in conversation. Current position: Assistant Instructional Professor of Japanese, University of Florida.
  • Alan Reiser, 2022, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University. Pedagogy project: Japanese pitch accent pedagogy: Considerations of pitch accent pedagogy and resources for teaching pitch accent in Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms. Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington.

MA Committee Member

  • Evan Bracken, 2017, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University
  • Nozomi Imai, 2019, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University
  • Madison Luken, 2022, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University
  • Chun Hau Ngai, 2023, East Asian Studies, Indiana University
  • Pei Chun Shih, 2024, Chinese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University

MA Exam Committee Member

  • Ciara Tapanes, in progress, Spanish Linguistics, University of Iowa

MA Primary Advisor

  • Nozomi Imai, 2017-19, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University. Current position: Lecturer in Japanese, Vanderbilt University
  • Yu Murakami, 2023-24, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University. Current position: Instructor of Japanese, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Aya Tozawa, 2023-24, Japanese Language Pedagogy, Indiana University. Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Honors Thesis Faculty Advisor

  • Tony Thach, 2025, Linguistics, University of Iowa

Lab Members Mentored

  • Olivia Colloton, 2025-Present, Undergraduate student, Linguistics, University of Iowa
  • Tony Thach, 2025-Present, MA student, Linguistics, University of Iowa
  • Anqi Wang, 2025-Present, MA student, Linguistics, University of Iowa