Department: LINGÜÍSTICA GENERAL Y TEORÍA DE LA LITERATURA

Faculty: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS

Area: General Linguistics

Research group: DIDÁCTICA DE LAS LENGUAS EXTRANJERAS

Email: kyoko@ugr.es

Personal web: https://www.ugr.es/personal/kyoko-ito

Doctor by the Universidad de Granada with the thesis Democracy in Japan and the role of neighborhood associations 2017. Supervised by Dr. Rafael Vázquez García.

Kyoko Ito-Morales, PhD. is Full-time lecturer at University of Granada. She obtained PhD in Social Science (University of Granada, Spain), MA in Human Right (Essex University, UK) and BA in Liberal Arts (International Christian University, Japan). She developed researches in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile), Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) and Osaka University (Japan). She has worked at NGOs related to the issues of human trafficking, minority rights, rights for children refugees and immigrant rights. Her research interests are Japanese society and politics, human rights in Asia and teaching of Japanese as a foreign language and its culture. She belongs to the Research Group DLEx HUM-1011 (Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras), Asociación de Estudios Japoneses en España (AEJE), Asociación Española de Estudios de Asia Oriental (AEEAO) and European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS). She is currently Steering Committee member of APJE (Spanish Association for Professor of Japanese).