1. Professor since 2008. Chair of EALL since 2014. Director of the Language Center between 2008 and 2014. Received multiple awards for innovative teaching materials and teaching including MERLOT Classics Award (2011), Language Center Award for Innovations in Language Teaching (2008), and Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Teaching Award (2004). Received multiple mini grants from the Japan Foundation. Recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for Humanities summer stipend. Has published five books since 1998. The Sound-Symbolic System of Japanese (1998) has been considered ground-breaking in the study of sound symbolism. The journal article “Voicing of obstruents in Old Japanese: Evidence from the sound-symbolic Stratum,” Journal of East Asian Linguistics 9, 207-225 (2000) is very widely cited. The first edition of Nihongo no Onomatope [Japanese sound symbolism] (2014) sold out quickly. Continues to explore the role sound symbolism has played in language evolution. Currently working on the possible relationships between Korean and Japanese ideophones. The website "Visualizing Japanese Grammar" is considered one of the most innovative online Japanese grammar resources.