Research keywords (3)：
Intercultural Competence
, Empathy
, Narrative Literature
Research theme for competitive and other funds (1)：
2021 - 2024 Developing Intercultural Competence through Literature for English-language Teachers
Papers (13)：
David Ostman. The Road to Reader Return: Employing Flash Fiction in EFL Education. 熊本学園大学 文学・言語学論集. 2020. 27. 1. 53-73
Jonathan Rowberry, David Ostman, Christopher Ott. Self-Generated Worksheets to Support Extended Oral Interaction. PanSIG Journal. 2020. 261-267
David Ostman. Reinterpreting Empathy in Intercultural Competence. Selected Papers from SUTLF 2018. 2019. 20-32
David Ostman. Gaining Intercultural Competence through Literature: A Contemporary Curriculum for the University Classroom (Doctoral Thesis). Kumamoto University Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences. 2019
David Ostman. Foregrounding the Other: Immigrants and "Americans" in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!. Kumamoto University Studies in English Language and Literature [英語英文学]. 2019. 61・62. 29-52
Engagement with Narratives for the Fostering of Pro-cultural Attitudes in EFL Education
(Notre Dame Seishin University Conference on International Communication and Community Development 2019 2019)
Self-Generated Worksheets to Extend Conversations
(JALT PanSIG 2019 Konan University Nishinomiya Campus (CUBE) 2019)
Cultural Encounter through Literature: A Model
(JALT PanSIG 2019 Konan University Nishinomiya Campus (CUBE) 2019)
Educating for Intercultural Competence through Literature
(Kobe JALT/Otemae University Institute of International Education Symposium: World Englishes, Bilingualism and Cross-Cultural Education 2018)
Overcoming Absence: Intercultural Interaction through Narrative
(2018 JALT Sojo University Teaching and Learning Forum (SUTLF): Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn 2018)
2015 - 2019 Kumamoto University Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences
2006 - 2008 Kumamoto University Department of Communication and Information Studies Applied Linguistics
2000 - 2004 University of Alberta Department of History East-Asian History
Work history (5)：
2019/04 - 現在 Kumamoto Gakuen University Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of English
2018/04 - 2019/03 Sojo University Sojo International Language Center (SILC) Senior Assistant Professor
2017/04 - 2018/03 Kumamoto Gakuen University Part-time lecturer
2014/04 - 2018/03 Tokai University Part-time lecturer
2006/04 - 2018/03 Prefectural University of Kumamoto Part-time lecturer
Awards (4)：
2020/05 - Haiku Society of America (HSA) HSA Merit Book Award 2020 Haiku as Life, A Kaneko Tohta Omnibus
2020 - The Haiku Foundation Touchstone 2019 Distinguished Book Award Haiku as Life, A Kaneko Tohta Omnibus
2012 - The Haiku Foundation Touchstone 2012 Distinguished Book Award Kaneko Tohta: Selected Haiku, with Notes and Commentary, Part 1, 1937-1960 (Red Moon Press, 2012, 256 pp.)
2011 - The Haiku Foundation Touchstone 2011 Distinguished Book Award, Shortlist The Future of Haiku, an Interview with Kaneko Tohta (Red Moon Press, 2011, 138 pp.)
Association Membership(s) (3)：
Journal of literature in language teaching(JALT SIG)
, The Japan Association for Language Teaching(JALT)
, Kumamoto studies in English language and literature
