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Maayan Barkan

Maayan Barkan

On sabbatical Fall 2026 — Summer 2027
Director of the Japanese Studies Program

Dr. Barkan is head of the Japanese Program at Hunter. She received her MA in Japanese language education at Osaka University of Foreign Languages in Japan, and both her second MA and PhD in Linguistics at the Graduate Center of CUNY.

Dr. Barkan is on sabbatical during the 2026-2027 school year. For questions about the Japanese program, please contact Dr. Alex Rogals.

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She has received two full scholarships from the Japanese Ministry of Education, including a two-year program for her MA studies and a one-year program of Japanese language and culture studies at the same university. She passed the highest level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. She also passed the Japan Society's Japanese language teacher training program in New York City, where she has assisted and taught privately.

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Maayan Barkan

Classical & Oriental Studies
68th Street West 1320A
(212) 772-5064
mbarkan@hunter.cuny.edu

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