Holly HK Didi-Ogren, PhD
Assistant Professor of Japanese
Japanese Program Coordinator
Modern Languages Department
Bliss Hall 328
P.O. Box 7718
The College of New Jersey
2000 Pennington Road
Ewing, NJ 08628
email:
ogren@tcnj.edu
TEL: (609)771-2890
FAX: (609)637-5139
site last updated January, 2008
Holly HK
Didi-Ogren
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2002 Ph.D., Department of Anthropology (Linguistic
Anthropology): University of Texas. 1998 M.A., Department
of Anthropology: University of Texas at Austin
1995 M.A., East Asian Studies: University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
1990 B.A., Japanese Studies; Earlham College: Richmond,
Indiana
WORK EXPERIENCE
2006-present Assistant Professor & Japanese Program Coordinator:
The College of New Jersey
2005-2006 Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Language: St. Olaf
College
2002-2005
Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Culture: Sōka
University of America
2001- 2002 Visiting instructor in Japanese and Sociology/ Anthropology:
Earlham College
Jan-May, 2001 Research assistant, University of Texas
Center for Social Work Research
1999-2000 International Liaison, Tōwa Town Government: Tōwa,
Iwate Prefecture (Japan)
1997-99 Teaching assistant, Japanese Language: Dept. of Asian
Studies, University of Texas
1997-98 Co-chair: Symposium About Language and Society – Austin
(SALSA)
1995-96 Teaching assistant, University of Texas: Linguistic
Anthropology computer lab
1994-95 Teaching assistant, “Japanese Aesthetics”: University
of Illinois
Summer, 1994 Instructor, Intensive Beginning Japanese:
University of Illinois
1993-94 Teaching assistant, “Introduction to Japanese Culture”:
University of Illinois
1992-93 Translator/interpreter: Neaton Auto Products
Manufacturing Eaton, Ohio
1990-92 Assistant English instructor and International Liaison:
Tōwa, Iwate Prefecture (Japan)
1990 Translator/interpreter,
Neaton Auto Products Manufacturing: Eaton, Ohio
PUBLICATIONS
• “The role of input in JFL university-level teaching materials: An
examination of three widely-used textbooks.” Proceedings of the 14th
Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum: Princeton University. August,
2007: 216-226.• • “Negotiating geographic and temporal
‘locality’ in rural Japanese women’s workplace settings.” In
Respect life, realize unity, and response to globalization: Proceedings of
the 10th Annual Graduate Student/School Teacher Symposium on
Japanese Studies. Seton Hall University: Asian Studies Department.
June, 2007: 39-48.
• Book review of Beyond sex and gender. Discourse and
Society May, 2005 16: 455 – 456.
• “Japanese and American folk vocabularies for emotions.” With
Futoshi Kobayashi and Diane Schallert. The Journal of Social
Psychology: August 2003
• Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium About Language and
Society – Austin (SALSA). Texas Linguistic Forum: Department of
Linguistics, University of Texas. 1998
Forthcoming
• Book review of
Negotiation of Contingent Talk:
The Japanese interactional particles ne and sa(Morita
2005). To appear in Discourse Studies late 2008.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
• “Language and place in Japanese women’s workplace interactions.”
Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise (DICOEN) IV Conference.
September 10-12, 2007: University of Nottingham. Nottingham, United
Kingdom
• “Incorporating structured input into beginning Japanese university-level
courses: Analyzing what current textbooks offer and developing supplementary
activities” JLTANE: The Twenty-First Conference of the Japanese
Language Teachers Association of New England and
The Twelfth Conference of the Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese.
June 23-24, 2007: Harvard University
• “The role of input in JFL university-level teaching materials: An
examination of three widely-used textbooks.” Princeton Japanese Pedagogy
Forum. Princeton University: May 5-6, 2007
• “Negotiating geographic and temporal ‘locality’ in rural Japanese
women’s workplace
settings.” The 10th Annual Symposium on Japanese Studies.
Seton Hall University: March 30, 2007
• “Linking input to output: Activity discussion and expansion, and
practical examples.” Conversation Hours Program: Second General Meeting and
Workshop for Leaders. Sponsored by the Modern Languages Department,
The College of New Jersey. March 7, 2007
• “Gender, politeness and power in Japanese women’s decision-making
processes” International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) 4: Gender
and Politeness seminar. Valencia, Spain: November 9-11, 2006
• “’Is this what you’re trying to say?’: Verbal negotiations of
patient agency at a Japanese adult day care center.” Midwest
Conference for Asian Affairs: Michigan State University. October, 2005
• “Understanding speech level shifts in Japanese verbal interactions.”
Language, Interaction and Social Organization Conference (CLIC-LISO).
University of California at Santa Barbara. May, 2005
• “Centrist gender ideologies and female Japanese regional dialect
speakers.” American Association of Applied Linguistics annual meeting:
Portland, Oregon. May, 2004
• Invited presentation: “Language and women’s roles.”
Dramatically shifting roles – 21st century Japanese women symposium
sponsored by the Kobe College Association. October, 2002
• “Feeding on nostalgia: Confluences of modernity, tradition and
globalization in a rural
Japanese women’s diner cooperative”. American Anthropological Association
annual meeting: Washington, D.C. November, 2001
• “Strategic placement: Investigations into rural Japanese women's
language usage at the intersection of a local language variety and
feminine-marked speech.” New York Conference of Asian Studies: Cornell
University. October, 2001
• “The negotiation of roles in Japanese women’s decision-making
processes”. Department of Speech Communication: University of Texas.
April, 2001
• “Machi-zukuri and women’s language usage in rural
northeastern Japan”. Invited presentation for the Japan Seminar
Series. Department of Asian Studies: University of Texas at Austin.
May, 2001
• “Craft, tongue, community: Women’s language usage in promoting local
products” Association of Asian Studies annual meeting: San Diego,
California. April, 2000
• “Dialect in women’s language usage in rural Northeastern Japan.”
Invited lecture at Japan Women’s University: Tokyo, Japan. October,
2000
• “Tōhoku no nōson ni okeru josei no kotoba tsukai” (Women’s language
usage in a rural Northeastern Japanese community). Kobe College Fellows
Colloquium: Kobe Women’s College. October, 1999
HONORS AND AWARDS
2007-2008 The College of New Jersey mini-grant for research support
2007 The College of New Jersey Career Development Grant
recipient. Funds for attending a summer workshop for Japanese
language teachers on integrating natural, spoken discourse into Japanese
foreign language courses at Pennsylvania State University’s Center for
Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER).
1999-00 Kobe College Corporation Fellowship for dissertation research
COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT
• Advanced Reading in Japanese: third-year Japanese language
course exploring reading strategies and skills development.
• Advanced Writing in Japanese: third-year Japanese language course
designed to develop students’ writing skills across a wide variety of
genres.
• Ethnographic Explorations of Japan: upper-level seminar in
Japanese Studies cross-listed with Sociology/Anthropology.
• Gender in Contemporary East Asia: freshman-level introductory
course in Asian Studies; cross-listed with Women’s Studies and
Sociology/Anthropology
• Gender in Japan: upper-level seminar in Japanese Studies,
cross-listed with Women’s Studies, and Sociology/Anthropology
• Japanese Language and Society: fourth-year Japanese language course
on sociolinguistic issues connected to Japanese; taught in Japanese
• Multilingualism in the United States: seminar addressing issues
surrounding bilingual education, language skills development and national
security, code-switching, and endangered languages.
• Studies in Language Learning and Teaching: theories, methodologies,
and practical materials development for foreign-language teaching.
Included a service learning component.
• First through third-year Japanese language courses
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Association of Teachers of Japanese
Association of Asian Studies
International Gender and Language Association
International Pragmatics Association