Cutrone Pino is excited for the opportunity to interact with you in our KEY program. As someone who was born and raised in (such a multi-cultural nation as) Canada, to Italian immigrant parents, having been educated in the UK, and now living in Japan, he has been truly blessed to have lived an international life, where he could meet many new and interesting people, as well as experience a wide array of diverse experiences that have benefited him both personally and professionally.

Brien Datzman is currently an assistant professor at the Center for Language Studies at Nagasaki University. He is also a member of the KEY program in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Born and raised in New Jersey in the United States, he has spent most of his adulthood living in Nagasaki. Brien has taught at all educational levels in Japan, from pre-k to university, but has mainly taught at the university level. He holds a M.A. in TESOL from the University of Birmingham, England and is currently working on an Ed.D. at Anaheim University in TESOL. His research interests include materials development, learner engagement, study abroad, and intercultural competence.

William Collins is an Associate Professor in the Center for Foreign Language Studies. He completed his MATESOL from University of Birmingham. He joined Nagasaki University in 2002 and has taught English Communication, American Culture, Reading and Writing I and II, Reading and Discussion I and II, Academic Writing I and II and Presentation. His research interests include Stylistics, Corpus Stylistics, 19th and 20th century Fiction, and developing an online World Literature Corpus. Prior to joining Nagasaki University, he taught English at an elementary school in Fukuoka and a junior-high school in Fukuoka.

Jeff MacPherson is currently an Assistant Professor at the Center for Language Studies at Nagasaki University in Nagasaki, Japan. He holds a Master of Teaching from Curtin University in Australia, as well as a Cambridge DELTA qualification. He is a member of the KEY program, which is an intensive English program that focuses on teaching academic English skills. His research investigates the implementation of effective teaching approaches and strategies that build student engagement and ownership of learning. Prior to working at Nagasaki University, Jeff taught ESL in Australia and gained extensive experience teaching at two other universities within Japan.

Rosalind Shiraishi was born in New Zealand, and has been living and teaching in Japan since 2009, teaching English first at the senior high school level and then university level. She holds a M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and currently teaches KEY program English students as well as general English education classes at Nagasaki University. Her research interests center around vocabulary acquisition and competency, including testing, corpus research, and task-based multi-skill vocabulary acquisition methods.