Instructor, Japanese Language and LiteratureLincoln Annex 1, #5 1890 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96822 Phone: (808) 956-4643 Fax: (808) 956-9515E-mail: woop@hawaii.edu

I am an instructor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. I have been the recipient of the 2007 Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2013 Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature.

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Japanese Literature, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, 2015

M.A. in Japanese, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 1990

B.A. in Japanese, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 1988, High Honors

B.A. in Economics, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 1988, Honors

Research Areas

• Modern Japanese Literature
• Japanese Christian novelists and their reception in Japan

Selected Bibliography

Woo, Patrick (2015). Miura Ayako the Christian writer: A Critical Study of Her Major Novels and their Reception in Japan. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii.