Academic Staff and Fellows

RUDOLPH Nathanael: Professor Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction (language education and culture); Department/General Education Division　
Liberal Arts and General Education

Research Area	Sociolinguistics; Language education; Cultural Anthropology
Teaching (Undergraduate Course)	オーラルイングリッシュ１・２・３・４国際化と異文化理解 Sociolinguistics (言語と社会) Indigenous "Japan" Being and Belonging Within and Transcending "Japan"
Teaching (Graduate Course)	TBD
Research Interests	Nathanael’s research interests include teacher and learner negotiations of being, becoming and belonging within and transcending (language) education, and cultivating transdisciplinary, community-based approaches to identity, experience and (in)justice.
Selected Publications	Hammine, M. & Rudolph, N. (Eds.) (2025). Transcending Language Education in Japan: Borderland Accounts of Being, Becoming and Belonging. Bloomsbury Publishing. Rudolph, N. (2025). Identity and ELF: (Re-)envisioning being, becoming, and belonging in theory, research and teaching. In T. Ishikawa, A. Suzuki and P. McBride (eds.), Developing ELF Programmes for Language Teaching (pp. 65-81). Berlin: De Gruyter. Rudolph, N. (2023). Narratives and negotiations of identity in Japan and criticality in (English) language education: (Dis)connections and implications. TESOL Quarterly 57(2). 375–401.
Research and Achievements	Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kllaoHcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nathanael_Rudolph
Affiliated Academic Societies	JACET (The Japan Association of College English Teachers) Asia TEFL KOTESOL
External Activity	Volunteer and Program Coordinator (local children's home 児童養護施設) Associate Editor, Journal of Language, Identity and Education Review Editor/Managing Editor, Asian Englishes Editorial Board Member, TESOL Quarterly Editorial Board Member, Hawaiʻi Journal of the Humanities Editorial Board Member, Journal of English and Applied Linguistics (JEAL) (De La Salle University, Manila) Manuscript Reviewer for journals including Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, TESOL Quarterly, Current Issues in Language Planning, Asian Englishes, Lingua, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Sage Open, Applied Linguistics, TESOL Journal, International Multilingual Research Journal, Language Teaching Research, European Journal of Education Book Manuscript Reviewer: Palgrave Macmillan (2018/1～）, Routledge (2015/1～), Cambridge Publishing (2022/6～)。 External PhD Committee Member: University of Queenslandの外部Ph.D.論文査読者 (2019/2～4), Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldasの博士課程委員 (2021〜2025), Universidad del Norte (Baranquilla, Colombia)の博士課程委員 (2022〜2023),Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USAの博士課程委員(2022～2023)を務める。 PhD Co-Supervisior: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (2021〜2025)
Education (Undergraduate Course)	B.A., International Affairs, Eastern Washington University
Education (Master's/Doctral Course)	M.A. Latin American and Iberian History, Eastern Washington University M.S. Ed TESOL, Temple University PhD, Curriculum and Instruction (Emphasis: Language education and culture), University of Maryland, College Park
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date	Rudolph, N. (2012). Borderlands and border crossing: Japanese professors of English and the negotiation of translinguistic and transcultural identity. University of Maryland, College Park.
Biography	2011~2017: Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education, Mukogawa Women's University (Nishinomiya, Japan) 2017~2020: Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education, Mukogawa Women's University (Nishinomiya, Japan) 2020~2025: Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics and Language Education, Faculty of Science and Engineering, General Education and Liberal Arts Division, Kindai University 2025~: Professor of Sociolinguistics and Language Education, Faculty of Science and Engineering, General Education and Liberal Arts Division, Kindai University
Awards	Please see my CV.
Message to Students	I am honored to be part of your experience here at Kindai. I wish you all the best with your studies!
Books Recommended to Students	1) Transcultural Japan; 2) Reinventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation (日本を再発明する: 時間、空間、ネーション)
Interests and Others	Family, volunteering, fishing, music, travel, etc.

E-mail	nrudolph（at）kindai.ac.jp Note that this e-mail address has replaced the "@" with "(at)" to prevent spam. When e-mailing, replace the "(at)" with "@".