Laplace-eigenvalue and embedding optimization on manifolds, and its analogue on graphs
Professional Experience:
S. Nayatani and T. Shoda: Metrics on a closed surface of genus two which maximize the first
eigenvalue of the Laplacian, C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 357 (2019), 84-98.
H. Izeki and S. Nayatani: Combinatorial harmonic maps and discrete-group actions on Hadamard spaces, Geom. Dedicata, 114 (2005), 147-188.
S. Nayatani: Patterson-Sullivan measure and conformally flat metrics, Math. Z., 225 (1997), 115-131.
NILEP, Chad
Designated Associate Professor of Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Linguistics, English linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Designated Associate Professor NILEP, Chad
Department: Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Doctor of Philosophy: English: Composition and TESOL, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA (2014).
Master of Arts: English: Composition and Rhetoric, Wright State University, Dayton, OH (2006).
Bachelor of Arts: Rhetoric, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL (2004).
Courses Taught:
Academic English Communication
Academic English Intermediate
Special English Seminar: Writing
Special English Seminar: Presentation
Special English Seminar: Reading
Research Interests:
Language teacher training
Critical pedagogy
Ideologies of English in Japan
Professional Experience:
Teaching History:
Designated Associate Professor - Nagoya University, 2016-present.
Assistant Professor - The University of New Mexico-Gallup, 2015-2016.
Adjunct Faculty Member - Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2013-2015.
Teaching Associate - Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2013.
Instructor - American Language Institute, 2010-2014.
Selected publications:
Nuske, K. (in press). “Critical Friends: How to develop effective critical friends PD groups.” In J. Liontis (Ed.), The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. New York, NY: Wiley.
Nuske, K. (in press). “Novice practitioners’ views on the applicability of postmethod and critical pedagogy in Saudi EFL contexts.” In L. Buckingham (Ed.), Language, Identity, and Education: The Place of English in Society in Arab Gulf States. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Nuske, K. (2015). Transformation and stasis: Two case studies of critical teacher education in TESOL. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 12(4), 283-312.
Nuske, K. (2014). “It is very hard for teachers to make changes to policies that have become so solidified”: Teacher resistance at corporate eikaiwa franchises in Japan. The Asian EFL Journal 16 (2), 105-131.
Selected conference presentations:
Nuske, K. (2015, March.) “I just figured out I’m discriminating against my own people”: multilingual graduate students’ shifting perceptions of localized Englishes. Paper presented at the 2015 American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Toronto, Canda.
Nuske, K. (2014, March). Resistance, subversion, and oppression in the kingdom: A critical discourse analysis of Saudi teachers’ perceptions of English proficiency. Paper presented at the 2014 American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Portland, OR.
Nuske, K. (2013, March). What does it mean to be a critical language teacher? : Investigating graduate students’ situated understandings of criticality. Paper presented at the 2013 American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Dallas, TX.
Nuske, K. (2013, March). Intercultural rhetoric: Ideologies of cultural comparison and pedagogical applications in ESL writing classrooms. Paper presented at the 2013 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV.
Oda, T., & Nuske, K. (2010, July). World Englishes in Japanese EFL classrooms: How to see the world through YouTube. Paper presented at the 16th annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Vancouver, BC.
RICHARD, Serge charles
Professor of Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Functional analysis, spectral and scattering theory, index theorems in scattering theory, Mourre theory, magnetic systems
Lecturer Serge, Richard
Professor of Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences
