Nanette Gottlieb

Biography

Nanette Gottlieb is Professor of Japanese Studies in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland and has taught Japanese language and Japanese Studies courses at both Griffith University and the University of Queensland. She has published widely on the sociology of language in Japan, with a particular interest in language policy.Her administrative responsibilities have included a five-year term as head of the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies. From 2007 to 2011 she held an Australian Professorial Fellowship to work on the project Immigration, technology and literacy: key challenges for language policy in a changing Japan.