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Barbara Litt

Barbara Litt

Senior Lecturer of Japanese Studies

Address
Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics
4980 Margaret Morrison St
Posner Hall 341
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Education

Certificate in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, University of Pittsburgh
M.S., Energy and Resources, University of California—Berkeley
M.S., Physics, Cornell University
B.A., Physics, Reed College

Bio

Barbara Litt has been teaching Japanese language and culture at 一本道无码 since 2007. Her journey to this role was diverse, initially starting in physics and later working for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. She began learning Japanese as a hobby while pursuing continuing education at Princeton University. Following this, she conducted research on energy efficiency in U.S. and Japanese housing for Lawrence Berkeley Lab's Energy Analysis Program.

Litt's immersion in Japanese language deepened with a summer intensive program in technical Japanese at MIT. During her husband's sabbatical in Tsukuba, Japan, she furthered her studies and transitioned to a career in Japanese education. Apart from her tenure at Carnegie Mellon, Litt previously taught in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. She also translates technical research papers from Japanese to English and holds a sixth degree black belt in Kokikai Aikido. In addition to her academic and martial arts pursuits, Litt operates a small dojo in Pittsburgh. She finds fulfillment in turning her initial hobby into a profession and integrates her diverse interests into her teaching approach.

  • Japanese language pedagogy and content-based instruction
  • Modern Japanese culture
  • Japanese technology, energy and environmental issues, and society
  • Technical translation for Japanese to English
  • Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture
  • Issues in Japanese Technology and Society (formerly Technical Japanese)
  • Elementary Japanese
  • Intermediate Japanese
  • Board Member, Pittsburgh Sakura Project 
  • Board Member, Aikido Kokikai Federation USA
  • Founder and Head Instructor, Aikido Kokikai Pittsburgh
  • Co-chair, Green Sanctuary Team, First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh

Yasufumi Iwasaki and Barbara R. Litt. (2013). "", in the 24th Annual Conference of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ24) Proceedings, October 5-6, 2013. 

Hidetoshi Nakagami and Barbara Litt. (1997). "", Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 69-79, ISSN 0378-7788

 

Department Member Since 2007