Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of English
Job title
Associate Professor
Profile
Kim Rockell is an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Komazawa University, Tokyo. His research interests encompass ethnomusicology and performing arts in education. For the past several years, he has been resident in Japan, where he has been learning the utai [chant] and shimai [dance] of the Noh theatre. His projects have examined plucked-string traditions, Philippine rondalla and Hispanic musical influences in the Asia Pacific, migrant music and music in diaspora, and the music/language nexus. He also is a classical guitarist, versatile performer and teacher. As an educator, Kim has a broad professional experience. He has taught at universities in Australia, Japan and New Zealand and is currently a national alumni representative in Japan for Wolfson College, Oxford University, where he spent time as a visiting scholar while completing his doctorate.
The Coding Catastrophe: Translingualism and Noh in the Japanese Computer Science EFL Classroom
ROCKELL,Kim Forrester
In S. Dovchin and T. A. Barret (Eds.), Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization.Multilingual Matters. Encounters Series 147-167 2019 [Refereed]
Noh in Cyberspace, Empowering the International Voices of Japanese Computer Science Students
ROCKELL,Kim Forrester
All 1st International Festival/Conference on Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts. Fukuoka, Japan. Tiempo 4 All Commemorative Edition 35-36 2018 [Refereed]
English Noh Theater Workshop: Lessons from a Japanese university EFL classroom
ROCKELL,Kim Forrester
The Mask & Gavel 7 38-49 2018 [Refereed]
Music in the Philippine Language Classroom
ROCKELL,Kim Forrester and Ocampo, Merissa Braza
Humanising Language Teaching 19(7) 1 2017 [Refereed]
Incorporating Music in CALL: An exploratory study establishing a protocol for Computer Assisted Language Learning Incorporating Music (CALLiM)
Performance in Education: Research and Practice. Nanzan University, Nagoya 15 Jun 2019
Making the Invisible Visible: Recognizing Call research in Asian contexts – Call in university settings
ROCKELL,Kim Forrester
16th International Conference of AsiaCALL. College of International Studies and Education of Tongren University, China 2 Nov 2018
Noh Theater in English with Japanese University Students
ROCKELL,Kim Forrester
Paper presented at the JALT Speech, Drama & Debate SIG Conference. Shonan Institute of Technology, Japan 2018
English Noh in Cyberspace: A practical solution to the dilemma of oral English production
ROCKELL,Kim Forrester
Paper presented at the 16th International Conference of AsiaCALL. College of International Studies and Education of Tongren University, China 2018
Translingualism and Noh in the Japanese Computer Science EFL Classroom
ROCKELL,Kim Forrester
Paper presented at the Long Colloquium: The factors of everyday globalization, the relocalization of mediascapes and technoscapes in multilingualism from below, Sociolingustics Symposium SS22 University of Auckland, New Zealand 2018
Teaching Experience
Chamber Music (Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music (CQCM))
