Professor and Chairman

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Ohio State University
204 Dieter Cunz Hall
1841 Millikin Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1229

TEL: (614) 292-5816
FAX: (614) 292-3225
E-MAIL: unger.26@osu.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• EDUCATION
  computer based education; Japanese language instruction in US; literacy
• HISTORY
  history of Japanese language
• LANGUAGE
  linguistics; pedagogy; writing system
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  Japanese language word processing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Chairman, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawaii, 1977-1992; Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages, University of Canterbury (New Zealand), 1975-76.

IN JAPAN: 1985-86 - fellowship; 1973-74 - dissertation research; 1968-69 - study; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan: Reading Between the Lines (Oxford University Press, 1996); Language, Writing Systems, and Literacy (with Umesao et al.) (National Museum of Ethnology, 1992); "The Very Idea: The Notion of Ideogram in China and Japan," Monumenta Nipponica (1990); The Fifth Generation Fallacy (Oxford University Press, 1987).