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Hisato Kawata Greeting and Profile
Hello. My name is Hisato Kawata. I am a translator and I teach English at home. I have been teaching as well as doing translation since around 2010 after coming back from the United States, where I studied for a long time.
There I studied anthropology in graduate school. I learned how to study and write about people’s life and culture and such by participant observation, a research method of cultural anthropology called ethnography, and got a doctorate degree. I was interested in culture contact at first and did ethnographic study on Japanese expatriate families living nearby and wrote my master’s thesis. But after moving to a doctoral program, the scope of my interest expanded and I could not narrow down my research objects. So it took me a long time to finally find the object and write my dissertation about artists’ endeavor for their creative expression. But during the time I was blessed with the opportunity to continue my ethnographic training in observing and writing with so many objects that I was able to improve my English tremendously, so much so that toward the end of my graduate student life I became a columnist for the student newspaper and wrote a series of ethnographic essays on the campus life for one semester. Around that time, I was even asked by a friend who was fluent in English yet not good at writing to help him with his writing. Getting involved in the writing as if it were my own and working together to improve it from someone else’s perspective, I think my engagement in the friend’s writing was a valuable experience comparable to my English teaching activities after coming home.
Making the best use of my English proficiency thus gained in America, I have been teaching English at home intermittently, calling it “English Writing School” at first, “Hisato Kawata English School” later. Now I would like to sum up my teaching activities with new plans and introduce Hisato Kawata English School to welcome new students. Thank you very much.
Hisato Kawata
1994 MA in Anthropology, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, U.S.A.
2008 PhD in Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
