-Brief Introduction of Yourself

Prof. Kiri Lee received her PhD in linguistics from Harvard University in 1993. Her research areas are Japanese pragmatics and heritage language education. In pragmatics, she has been working on comparative analyses of Japanese and Korean grammar collaborating with Korean linguists. Also, in her work on heritage language education, she pays special attentions to how the notion of “heritage language learner” is constructed, and how her findings can help young heritage speakers navigate in this globalizing world.

 

-How did you get to know Kanazawa University?  What is your impression of the university ?

Through Prof. Mariko Saiki. She and I are in the field of linguistics, and we met each other in several conferences. She invited me to Kanazawa University to give special lectures.

 

-List the recent activities as a Collaborative Professor

Lehigh University has been hosting a group of Kanazawa students in the spring semester in the past several years. The most recently, we hosted eight students from February 22 to march 4, 2020. They visited local schools in the Lehigh Valley, attended lectures, and participated in a cultural events.