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  Title:

  Specially Appointed Associate professor

  Teacher Group:

  Public Communication and Journalism

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Classes

Minority Studies

Class Content

calling naturalness into question

The course aims to call into question and critically rethink those mainstream concepts and values tacitly held as natural (e.g. all human languages are spoken; disability is a personal tragedy, etc.) through alternative viewpoints provided by Deaf Studies, Disability Studies, etc.

Brief Outline of History & Achievements

Education: Doctor's Course, Division of English and American Literature, Department of Literature, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University (04/1984--03/1987). Professional experience: Rakuno Gakuen University, Lecturer (04/1987--03/1992); Hokkaido University, Lecturer (04/1992--09/1994), Associate professor (10/1994--present).

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Academic Society Affiliations

Japan Society for Disability Studies, Sign Language Studies Japan

E-mail

tuti@imc.hokudai.ac.jp

Research Areas

critical analysis of hearing world from the sign language/Deaf points of view