Dr. Ray Nault: Japanese Woodblock Art

Dr. Ray Nault is a writing consultant at the Beacon College Writing Center at Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida. Beacon is a nonprofit liberal arts school and America’s first accredited baccalaureate institution dedicated to educating primarily neurodivergent students with learning disabilities, ADHD, dyslexia, and other learning differences. Prior to Beacon, Nault served as an educator in Tokyo and Japan from 1996-2017, holding positions as an English language and writing instructor at Lado International College in Shinjuku, Tokyo and Inter School in Aoyama, Tokyo, and serving as an adjunct professor in communication, critical reading, writing, literature, and speech at Yokohama National University in Yokohama, Japan, Hosei University in Iidabashi, Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University in Kunitachi, Tokyo, and Chuo University in Hachioji, Tokyo. From 2014-2017, he taught Japanese woodblock printing and in Noh Theater at Hosei University in Iidabashi, Tokyo. As an artist, Nault has mounted exhibitions throughout Japan and around the world including at the Yoshida International Hanga Academy 30th Exhibition in Montbell, Shibuya; Osaka; Kyoto, and nine other cities, Menshokai 39th (Noh Mask) exhibition. Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, and Oji Paper Museum. Oji-City, Tokyo. Nault holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English from the University of Odense, a Master’s degree in classical Hebrew from Washington State University, and a Ph.D. in English and semiotics from the University of Odense in Denmark.