Chapter 14: Acting the Part: Life in Japan as Role-Play by Wendy Jones Nakanishi
Abstract
Wendy Jones Nakanishi tells us the story of her path as a Western woman who came to rural Japan for a career in higher education and the benefits and challenges she faced there. She shares her experiences of living the life as an employed university worker, on the one hand, and as a woman in a male-dominated family, on the other.
About the Contributor
Wendy Jones Nakanishi (PhD) taught at tertiary level in Japan from March 1984 to March 2020, when she retired from a position as Professor in the English and Cultural Studies Department at Shikoku Gakuin University in Zentsuji, Japan. She received her doctorate from Edinburgh University for her thesis on the contemporary context of correspondence published by the 18th-century English poet Alexander Pope. She has published widely in 18th, 19th, and 20th-century English literature, specializing in Pope, John Ruskin, Virginia Woolf, and Iris Murdoch. Her special research interest is in letters, diaries and journals. She has also written a great deal of “creative non-fiction” that describes her life in Japan as an American academic married to a Japanese farmer and the mother of three sons. She has published three crime fiction novels, set in Japan, under the pen name of Lea O’Harra.
Citation
Nakanishi, W. J.(2020). Acting the part: Life in Japan as role-play. In D. H. Nagatomo, K. A. Brown, & M. L. Cook (Eds.), Foreign female English teachers in Japanese higher education: Narratives from our quarter (pp. 183-193). Candlin & Mynard. https://doi.org/10.47908/11/14
Wendy Jones Nakanishi tells us the story of her path as a Western woman who came to rural Japan for a career in higher education and the benefits and challenges she faced there. She shares her experiences of living the life as an employed university worker, on the one hand, and as a woman in a male-dominated family, on the other.
About the Contributor
Wendy Jones Nakanishi (PhD) taught at tertiary level in Japan from March 1984 to March 2020, when she retired from a position as Professor in the English and Cultural Studies Department at Shikoku Gakuin University in Zentsuji, Japan. She received her doctorate from Edinburgh University for her thesis on the contemporary context of correspondence published by the 18th-century English poet Alexander Pope. She has published widely in 18th, 19th, and 20th-century English literature, specializing in Pope, John Ruskin, Virginia Woolf, and Iris Murdoch. Her special research interest is in letters, diaries and journals. She has also written a great deal of “creative non-fiction” that describes her life in Japan as an American academic married to a Japanese farmer and the mother of three sons. She has published three crime fiction novels, set in Japan, under the pen name of Lea O’Harra.
Citation
Nakanishi, W. J.(2020). Acting the part: Life in Japan as role-play. In D. H. Nagatomo, K. A. Brown, & M. L. Cook (Eds.), Foreign female English teachers in Japanese higher education: Narratives from our quarter (pp. 183-193). Candlin & Mynard. https://doi.org/10.47908/11/14

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Title: Foreign Female English Teachers in Japanese Higher Education: Narratives From Our Quarter
Editors: Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie Lorie Cook
Publication date: August 2020
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Title: Foreign Female English Teachers in Japanese Higher Education: Narratives From Our Quarter
Editors: Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie Lorie Cook
Publication date: August 2020
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