Hiroko MatsuzakiAdjunct Instructor, Japanese

Dr. Hiroko Matsuzaki has taught language and literature for many years at various universities in Taiwan, Japan and the United States.

She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Language and Literature at the University of Tokyo, Japan. She was a research associate at Yenching Institute at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Taiwan Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include literature education and children's literature in the Sinophone and Japanophone world, and transculturation in East Asian literature. She is the author of Zheng Qing-wen and His Time: The Life of a Taiwanese Writer Who Loved His Homeland and the Transfigure of the Taiwanese Identities (Tokyo: Toho-shoten 2020) .