これは何ですか。What’s this about?

…”I ask him if he is ‘out’ and he looks at me, moves his head slightly forward and asks, ‘Pardon?’”
“Are you out of the closet?” I explain.
He shakes his head from side to side a little, leans in and says slowly, “I’m not gay in Japanese, I’m only gay in English.”

The above excerpt introduces [...]

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Marlen is interviewed by Folake Abass of GALE

Excerpt from forthcoming interview with Folake Abass of the JALT Gender Awareness in Language Education (GALE) sig. More info on viewing the entire interview to be posted soon!

FA: Thank you for agreeing to do this interview with us. To begin with, can you tell us about the research you are doing for your [...]

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What this research is not…

So it has occurred to me, and numerous times at that, how what this project is not about is just as important as what this project is about. To that end, here’s what I’m not trying to do:

I am not trying to prove that all Japanese construct sexuality in the same way.
I am not assuming [...]

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Introduction

Discovering voices, discovering selves: English language, intercultural communication, and Japanese queer sexualities
A 1928 manuscript in The English Journal declared, “English has become so much a part of the Japanese people in the last 50 years that it has rightly been called the second language of the empire” (Crocker, p. 288). Fast forward to 2005 as [...]

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