Japanese Language Program Faculty
Matthew Fraleigh
Associate Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture, Undergraduate Advising Head
Expertise: Classical and modern Japanese literature and language, cultural and literary exchange between China and Japan, literature of travel, Sinitic poetry and prose in East Asia
Expertise: Vocabulary acquisition in Japanese as a foreign language, Kanji acquisition for students with alphabet-language backgrounds, using strategies for reading Japanese as a foreign language
Expertise: Japanese language, second language acquisition (English as a second language and Japanese as a foreign language), Japanese literature (17th-century Haikai and work of Matsuo Basho)