The EAS Department is proud to announce that Professor Jotaro Arimori, who teaches Japanese, has won the 2020 Faculty of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award. The award “recognizes teaching excellence in undergraduate and graduate education with a focus on classroom instruction and course design and/or curriculum development.”¹
Professor Arimori holds an MA in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto and has been teaching in our department for the last 13 years. His primary research interest is the intersection of gender, sexual diversity and Japanese language education. He currently serves on the organizing committees for both the Ontario Japanese Speech Contest and the Canada National Japanese Speech Contest.
We offer our most sincere congratulations to Professor Arimori on a well-deserved award!
¹The Faculty of Arts and Science Teaching Awards – Outstanding Teaching Award