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Congratulations to Dr. Minae Yamamoto Savas for receiving tenure at Bridgewater State University

May 27, 2014

Congratulations to Dr. Minae Yamamoto Savas for receiving tenure at Bridgewater State University

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Minae Yamamoto Savas received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from The Ohio State University in 2008. During the doctoral study, she taught at Colgate University and Hamilton College, where she offered courses on Japanese literature and culture as well as Japanese language; she also taught Japanese in the Summer Immersion Program at Middlebury College. She joined Bridgewater State University as Assistant Professor after finishing her dissertation. She teaches all levels of Japanese and courses on Japanese culture and Asian theater. She designed new undergraduate courses such as LANG 199 Beyond Anime: Elements of Japanese Culture, LANG 260 The Art of Zen, and LANG 360 Japanese Cinema and Theater. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013 and has been awarded tenure, effective September 2014. She was also recently appointed as Research Fellow to coordinate with College Deans to support faculty development around research and scholarship across colleges. She has been an Associate in Research at Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University since 2008.

Her recent publications include “Voices from the Past: Symbolic Madness in the Noh Play Kinuta, the Fulling Block.” Japan Studies Association Journal, vol. 11 (2013); “Familiar Story, Macbeth-New Context, Noh and Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood” in Education About Asia, vol. 17, no. 1 (2012); “The Complexities of Translating Kyogen Libretti: The Kyogen Play Tied to a Pole” in Geninōshi kenkyūkai, The Japan Society for History of the Performing Arts, no. 196 (2012); and the translation of “Okura Tora’aki and the Waranbegusa (Notes for Children, 1660)” by Sekiya Toshihiko, in A History of Japanese Theatre, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2014.