BIO:

Nathanael is currently an associate professor of sociolinguistics in the Department of English at Mukogawa Women’s University in western Japan. Nathanael has a transdisciplinary educational background in history, international relations, cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and language education. His research interests include: 1) critical approaches to language teacher and learner identity, 2) addressing privilege-marginalization in (and beyond) language education, 3) narrative and ethnographic inquiry grounded in postmodern and poststructural theory, and 4) translingual practice.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

University of Maryland, College Park     (2008-2012)

Graduate School, College of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction (Emphasis: Second language education and culture)

Dissertation title: Borderlands and border crossing: Japanese professors of English and the negotiation of translinguistic and transcultural identity

Temple University, Japan Campus     (2004-2007)

College of Education

M.S., Ed., TESOL

Eastern Washington University     (2000-2002)

Graduate School of College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, Department of History

M.A., History (Latin American and Iberian History)

Eastern Washington University     (1995-1999)

College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

B.A., International Affairs

Universidad de Granada     (2004)

Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara      (1999)