2023-24 New Faculty

Masashi Harada is an educator of the Japanese language and a linguist who specializes in formal semantics of natural languages, i.e., the scientific study of the meanings of sentences in natural languages. As a linguist, he is interested in what patterns and constraints natural languages have about the way the meanings of sentences are derived from the meanings of words in the sentences, and he works primarily on Japanese and English to address the question. He is also passionate about teaching, and he has taught the Japanese language and linguistics as an instructor and a teaching assistant at Grinnell College, McGill University, the University of Kansas, and Waseda University. Outside of work, he loves to cook and do outdoor activities such as skiing and camping with his family.