Mr. Joshua Dale

Mr. Joshua Dale is assistant professor in the Department of English at the Tokyo University of Liberal Arts. Mr. Dale received his B.A. from the University of Oregon, USA, in 1987. He got his M.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA, in 1992, with a thesis on "Taga Jinja and the Heterology of Desire," and is at present a Ph.D. candidate at the same university. He first came to Japan in 1988 under the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) programme as an English teaching assistant, and then, after a period of teaching at his alma mater in Buffalo, returned to Japan to teach at Tokyo Noko University. He received his present appointment last April, and is concurrently teaching part-time at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. He has been active as a contributor to academic journals and speaker at conferences on a variety of subjects. One of the papers he presented, "Teaching Critical Thinking and Cultural Analysis in the Japanese University Classroom", was published in the October, 1995, issue of "The Language Teacher."
Adapted from "The Asiatic Society of Japan Bulletin No. 1", January 1996, compiled by Hugh Wilkinson.
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