Suzanne Bonn joined the Department of Education in August 2015 after receiving her PhD in Applied Linguistics from Aston University in the UK. Her dissertation is entitled "Teacher Use of Personal Narrative in the Japanese University English Language Classroom" in which she analyzed the meaning of the personal experience stories told by university teachers in English language lessons and their effects on student learning. Dr. Bonn taught EFL (English as a Foreign Language) for over 12 years in universities in Nagoya, Japan, and has presented her research in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Japan. She has served as programme chair for language teaching and learning conferences in Japan and acts as a conference proposal reader for JALT and TESOL. Dr. Bonn’s research interests include narrative analysis, research methods, conversation analysis, and portfolios as alternative assessment.