Research areas	Applied Intercultural Social Psychology
Keywords	virtual intercultural exchange, team learning, exploratory practice, indigenous cultural concepts
Themes	I'm currently interested in applying social psychology through team learning and an educational philosophy called Exploratory Practice to understand indigenous (cultural) concepts via virtual intercultural exchanges with students and teachers in Japan, China, Germany, Sweden, and Indonesia. I use "virtual intercultural fieldwork" as a methodology to theorize and practice a pedagogy of transcultural understanding.
Major publications	Dalsky, D., Su, J., Widiyanto, C., Aryanata, T., Harimurti, A., Mattig, R., Yang, F. (2025). Unlocking transcultural understanding with key indigenous concepts “liberated” by English as a lingua franca: A decade of virtual intercultural exchanges. In F. Dervin, J. Peng, & V. Trémion (Eds.), Interculturality online: Ideological constructions and considerations for higher education. Routledge. Dalsky, D., & Su, J. (2024). A virtual transcultural understanding pedagogy: Online exchanges of emic Asian cultural concepts. Journal of Transcultural Communication. https://doi.org/10.1515/jtc-2022-0007 Dalsky, D., & Mattig, R. (2023). ​Intercultural learning about cultural concepts using English as a lingua franca: Online exchanges between German and Japanese university students. Kyoto University Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences Bulletin, 6, 1-115. https://doi.org/10.14989/ILAS_6_1 Dalsky, D., Harimurti, A., Widiyanto, C., & Su, J. Y. (2022). A virtual intercultural training method: Exchanges of Javanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese emic concepts. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 25, 121-134. http://repository.usd.ac.id/43722/1/8356_SIETAR-J%2BDalsky%2Bet%2Bal.%2B2022.pdf 　　　 Su, J. Y., Arayanta, T., Shih, Y., & Dalsky, D. (2021). English as an international language in practice: Virtual intercultural fieldwork between Balinese and Chinese EFL learners. Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2021.1915748 Dalsky, D., & Su, J. Y. (2020). Japanese psychology and intercultural training: Presenting wa in a nomological network. In D. Landis, & D. Bhawuk (Eds.). Cambridge handbook of intercultural training 4th Edition (pp. 584-597). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108854184.024 Dalsky, D., & Su, J. Y. (2020). Rappin’ on campus: Multiliteracies in action in Japan. In J. K. Shin, & P. Vinogradova (Eds.). Contemporary foundations for teaching English as an additional language: Pedagogical approaches and classroom applications (pp.181-185). Routledge. Stewart, T., Dalsky, D., & Tajino A. (2018). Team learning potential for TESOL practice. TESOL Journal, 10(3), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.426 Tajino, A., Stewart, T., & Dalsky, D. (Eds.). (2015). Team teaching and team learning in the language classroom: Collaboration for innovation in ELT. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315718507 Dalsky, D., & Garant, M. (2015). A 5,000-mile virtual collaboration of team teaching and team learning. In A. Tajino, T. Stewart, & D. Dalsky (Eds.), Team teaching and team learning in the language classroom: Collaboration for innovation in ELT (pp. 164-178). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315718507 Dalsky, D., & Landis, D. (2013). Cross-cultural training. In K. D. Keith (Ed.), The encyclopedia of cross-cultural psychology (pp. 275-278). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118339893.wbeccp115 Dalsky, D. (2011). Effects of communicating success with friends on self-esteem in Japan and the United States. Psychologia: An International Journal of Psychological Sciences, 54(4), 178-189. https://doi.org/10.2117/psysoc.2011.178 Dalsky, D. (2010). Individuality in Japan and the United States: A cross-cultural priming experiment. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 34(5), 429-435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2010.05.008 Tajino, A., Stewart, T., & Dalsky, D. (Eds.). (2010). Writing for academic purposes: Eisakubun wo sostugyoshite eigoronbun wo kaku. Tokyo: Hitsuji Press. Dalsky, D., Gohm, C. L., Noguchi, K., & Shiomura K. (2008). Mutual self-enhancement in Japan and the United States. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 39(2), 215-223. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022107313863
Professional societies/Research and synergic activities	International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR), Fellow Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research - Japan (SIETAR-Japan) Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)
Teaching Areas	Undergraduate courses Academic English Writing-Listening Graduate courses (Master's program) Intercultural Understanding Pedagogy Graduate courses (Doctor's program) Undergraduate courses open to all departments Academic Writing and Listening in English
Background	Professional background: Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University (2025-present) Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University (2025-present) Associate Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University (2014-2025) Associate Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University (2014-2025) Associate Professor, Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, Kyoto University (2008-2014) Visiting Lecturer, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University (2007-2008) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Division of Human Sciences, Hokkaido University (2006-2007) Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) Scholar, Faculty of Arts, Shinshu University (2004-2006) Instructor, Psychology Department, University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA (2002-2004) Instructor, Croft Institute for International Studies, University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA (2001-2004) Educational background: Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, USA (2005) M.A. in Social Psychology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, USA (2002) B.A. in Psychology, Saint Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin, USA (1998)

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