Emily Levine, PhD
Modern Languages and ELL
Emily has earned a PhD in Japanese language and literature from Washington University in St. Louis (2023), an MA in Japanese language and literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2015), and a BA in linguistics from Boston University (2009).
At Washington University, she received a full scholarship as a Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Fellow for Women in Graduate Study and conducted archival research in Tokyo as the beneficiary of a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Doctoral Fellowship Award. In addition to her experience teaching Japanese language, literature, and culture at the university level, she has taught English language to Japanese high school students through the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program and to international graduate students at Washington University as a TESOL Fellow in the University’s English Language Program.
In her teaching practice, Emily aims to generate interest by forging memorable and meaningful connections—both personal, with her students, and academic, between the topics and ideas she teaches—and encouraging her students to do the same. As someone who has lived and worked extensively in a second language, Emily is familiar with the challenges involved in mastering a new language and with the way students’ skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) can develop at different times and in different ways; she strives to make her classroom a welcoming space where those challenges are met cooperatively and where each student’s abilities are honored and supported.