Joff P. N. Bradley, BA, MA, MA, MA, PhD, Associate Professor at Teikyo University, Tokyo, has produced four books: Deleuze and Buddhism, A Pedagogy of Cinema, Educational Philosophy and New French Thought, and Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education. Bradley is visiting professor at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi, India, and visiting research fellow at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea.
David Kennedy is Associate Professor at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. He has published numerous articles on the social semiotic aspects of foreign language learning. With Joff P.N. Bradley, he is one of the co-founders of the New Tokyo Group.

Bringing Forth a World: Engaged Pedagogy in the Japanese University provides theoretical and practical solutions--informed by semiotic, feminist, multimodal and multilateral pedagogies--to the perceived crises in tertiary foreign language education in the Japanese university.