Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Fall 2026 Office Hours: Mondays and Fridays 11:30am – 12:30pm, Wednesdays 5:00-6:00pm, and by appointment.
Hiromi Miyagi-Lusthaus was born and raised in Tokyo. She has been teaching Japanese in the US since 1992. Before coming to Boston University in 2008, she taught at Bates College (Lewiston, ME), Colby College (Waterville, ME), Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) and at the University of Missouri-Columbia where she was also the Coordinator of the Japanese Program. She has taught all levels of students and continues to do so at BU.
She has frequently participated in teaching workshops for her professional development. She is currently co-authoring a book about teaching social justice in Japanese language classrooms. Her interests include movies (she has been a curator of the Geddes Japanese Movie Series), manga (she has developed and taught a course on it), intercultural understanding (especially between East Asian people and Jewish people), and social issues in Japan. She has made presentations on teaching social justice at academic conferences, and one of her research topics is Japanese attitudes toward Jews. She enjoys reading Japanese novels, especially ones dealing with the Edo period.