Director of Undergraduate Japanese Programs

Ph.D. The University of Georgia

SH 742G / 696-3543

andersonn@marshall.edu

Dr. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Japanese and the Coordinator of the Japanese Program with expertise in Foreign Language Education and Japanese Popular Culture. She was born in Kagoshima, Japan. Dr. Anderson's interests include identity and language learning, discourse analysis, race, class, gender issues in language and society, and material development for using Japanese popular culture in the foreign language classroom. Her recent article will be published:

Fukunaga, N. (2006, November). “Those Anime Students”: Foreign Language Literacy Development Through Japanese Popular Culture. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 50(3), 206–222.