Sono un sociolinguista specializzato nelle lingue del Giappone. La mia ricerca si estende oltre la sociolinguistica e include la storia della linguistica, l'ideologia linguistica, lingue in pericolo di estinzione, e la comunicazione urbana. Ho esperienza istituzionale in Germania, Giappone e Italia. Pubblico e insegno principalmente in inglese, ma parlo anche tedesco, giapponese, francese e italiano. Ho avuto la fortuna di studiare con Florian Coulmas, Jiří Neustupný, Fumio Inoue, Shinsho Miyara e Josef Kreiner. Mi piace collaborare nella ricerca e nelle pubblicazioni con studiosi di tutto il mondo. Nell'insegnamento, spero di condividere la gioia di studiare. Per ulteriori informazioni su di me, consultare l'elenco sottostante.

Formazione academica

1998: MA in Linguistics and Japanese Studies (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany)

2002: Dr. phil in Japanese Studies (Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, Germany)

2005: Habilitation thesis in Japanese Studies (Duisburg-Essen University, Germany)

Occupazione e borse di studio a tempo pieno

1998–1999: Research assistant, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

2000–2001: PhD scholarship by DAAD

2001–2006: Assistant professor, Duisburg-Essen University

2006–2008: Associate professor, Duisburg-Essen University

2008–2010: JSPS/Humboldt-fellow, University of the Ryukyus

2010–2013: Associate Professor Dokkyo University

2013–2014: Professor Dokkyo University

2014–2021: Associate Professor Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice

Since 2021: Professor Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice

Editorial boards

Associate Editor: East Asian Pragmatics (University of Toronto Press)

Editorial Board: The Endangered Language Yearbook (Brill), Contemporary Japan (Taylor & Francis), Current Issues in Language Planning (Taylor & Francis), International Quarterly of Asian Studies (Heidelberg University Press), Kotoba to shakai (Sangensha),  Études japonaises (L’Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès), Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics (Edinburgh University Press)

Fellowships

Since 2016: University of Hokkaido: lecturer at the annual summer school

2026: Visiting professor University Toulouse Jean-Jaurès

2025: Erasmus teacher exchange: University of Ljubljana

2019: Erasmus teacher exchange: University of Vienna

2016: Erasmus teacher exchange: University of Helsinki

2016: Visiting professor: Duisburg-Essen University

2015: Fellow: University of Lapland

2013: Visiting professor: University Toulouse Jean-Jaurès

2010–2013: Fellow: Gakushuin University

2008–2010: Fellow: Okinawa International University

2006–2013: Fellow: Hosei University

2004: Visiting Fellow: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Impatto della ricerca

Google Scholar: Citations: 1600+ / h-index 21 / i10-index 43

Researchgate: 700+, 70,000+ reads

Premi

2020: Honorary President, Ryukyuan Heritage Language Society

2014: Honorary member, Foundation for Endangered Languages

2010: Tokugawa Award, Japanese Association for Sociolinguistic Sciences

2002: Annual Award of the Duisburg University Society: Best Dissertation of the Year