Masae Matsuki

Masae Matsuki is a Professor at Waseda University's School of Education within the Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences. She holds concurrent appointments at the Graduate School of Education and serves as a Concurrent Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Education since 1989. Her academic career at Waseda spans from 1989 to present, progressing through roles including Assistant at the Waseda University Japanese Language Research and Education Center (1989-1993) before becoming Professor.

Her educational background includes a Master of Arts in Letters from Waseda University (1993) and a Bachelor's degree from Tokyo Gakugei University's Faculty of Education (1982).

Matsuki's research focuses on Japanese linguistics and language education, with particular expertise in grammatical structures, vocabulary development, teaching materials, and Japanese language studies. Her scholarly work demonstrates deep engagement with compound particles, attributive clauses, quotation structures, and the historical evolution of Japanese grammar.

Her research projects include multiple Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid, notably leading a 2001-2002 project on creating expression databases for contemporary Japanese grammar analysis and co-investigating a major 2002-2004 study on compound particles in Japanese. These projects produced significant publications analyzing compound case postpositions, conjunctive postpositions, and auxiliaries.

She actively contributes to academic societies including the Waseda University Japanese Language Education Society, Japanese Language Society, Japanese Grammar Society, and Japanese Language Education Society. Her teaching portfolio for 2025 includes Japanese Linguistics courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, Educational Literacy, and specialized seminars in Japanese language teaching.

Her international engagement includes research at Stanford University, Harvard University, and the University of Iowa during 2001-2002, focusing on cognitive linguistic approaches to Japanese grammar description.