Dr Thomas McAuley

Distance-Learning Team

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Thomas McAuley first arrived in Sheffield as an undergraduate student in 1985, where he read for a degree in Japanese and Linguistics. During his undergraduate work, he took a year's leave to study in Japan as a Monbusho scholarship grantee, and graduated in 1990 with First Class honours and was awarded a British Academy State Studentship to study for a PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London between 1990-1993. Subsequently he taught Japanese and Japanese Studies at the University of Limerick, Eire, for several years before coming to Sheffield in 1997. Following on from his doctoral thesis, entitled "The Genji Monogatari: A Loose Sequence of Vague Phrases?" his main research interests lie in the fields of classical Japanese linguistics and literature.