Tom Kenny

Tom's Bio

Favorite Quote: 
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

Noam Chomsky

US expatriate Tom Kenny is a tenured faculty member and associate professor of linguistics in the department of British & American Studies at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in central Japan, where he teaches media studies with a focus on "independent media through podcasting," and holds a seminar on American Society.

Tom is a 30-year veteran broadcaster who has worked in the US and Japan as an announcer and voice-over artist. The author of several textbooks on speaking and listening in ESL, a skilled and dynamic speaker, Tom has been presenting his research and giving talks at international conferences for over a decade.