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)