Stephen Howe

Professor Stephen Howe, PhD, teaches English and Linguistics at the Department of English and Graduate School of Fukuoka University in Japan. Before he joined Fukuoka University, he was editor in chief of an English research writing company based outside Cambridge, England, with customers in 61 countries. Stephen was originally a medical student at Newcastle University in the UK, but after undergraduate studies in Newcastle and Würzburg and PhD research the University of Freiburg in Germany, the University of Lund in Sweden and the University of Ghent in Belgium, he gained his doctorate in Languages and Linguistics at the University of London. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, a visiting academic at the University of Cape Town, and a Visiting Fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research has been supported by the British Academy and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.