英語・地域研究・各国研究
Allen Walzem教授
- 学歴
- B.S. “Radio, Television, and Film,” University of Texas at Austin, USA
M.A. “Secondary English Education,” University of Colorado at Boulder, U.S.A.
M.A., “Communication and Culture” (with media focus) Indiana
University at Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
D., English Language and Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
- 職歴
- After earning a master's degree in English education from the University of Colorado, I worked as a lecturer at Hallym University and Kangwon University in South Korea, as an English instructor in Japan and as a public speaking and communications lecturer at Indiana University before moving to Taiwan to work as an associate professor at South Taiwan University of Science and Technology and as a lecturer at National Cheng Kung University.
- 専門分野
- 英文学
- 担当教科
- 北米地域論
- アメリカ研究
Message
After studying English education at the University of Colorado, I worked as an English teacher in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan while conducting research on cross-cultural communication. My interests in Japan range from the Tale of Genji to the films of Nagisa Oshima and Takeshi Kitano. I am very interested in film and television history and the impact of mass media on culture. I came to the School of International Studies, the first of its kind in Hokkaido, to teach real, natural, spoken English and North American Culture through television, TV commercials, and other cultural artifacts.