Nanette Gottlieb

Biography

Nanette Gottlieb is Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, where she was the first Head of School from 2001 to 2005. She has taught Japanese language and studies courses at both Griffith University and the University of Queensland and has published widely on the sociology of language in Japan, with a particular focus on language policy. Her books include Language and the Modern State: The Modernization of Written Japanese (1991, republished 2021), Kanji Politics: Language Policy and Japanese Script (1995), Language and Society in Japan (2005), and Language Policy in Japan: The Challenge of Change (2012). She has supervised many RHD students and sits on the editorial board of several key journals in her field. She has received several ARC Discovery grants, culminating in an Australian Professorial Fellowship (2007-2011) to work on the project Immigration, Technology and Literacy: Key Challenges for Language Policy in a Changing Japan.