Chiharu Nagasue is an adjunct lecturer at Eastern Michigan University, where she teaches Japanese.  Previously, she taught Japanese at Western Michigan University and English at a junior high school in Japan, where she worked with various U.S. teachers from JET program. 

She earned her MA at Western Michigan University in Anthropology with a thesis entitled "Who are 'the Japanese?': Negotiation of Identity among Nikkei in Brazil" (2004).  Her current interest is the study of language acquisition among bilingual children.