Researcher Information - NISHIMOTO Azusa |

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NISHIMOTO Azusa

Department / Course

Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English

Job Professor

Specialization and related fields
English literature and literature in the English language

Belonging society
1.	2005 ～	Modern Language Association(MLA)
2.	2006/09 ～	Toni Morrison Society

Official position and committee in Univ.
1.	2024/04/01 ～ 2026/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University Chair
2.	2025/04/01 ～ 2027/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University

Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
1.	2022/04 ～ 2024/03	"More-Than-Human” Imagination and Narrative: Preliminary Research Towards Environmental Humanities at AGU Domestic Joint Research
2.	2024/04 ～ 2027/03	Digital archiving and verification of musical activities of the "Tsugawa Chikazu Collection" at Aoyama Gakuin. Domestic Joint Research

Activity in society
1.	2023/05	African American Women and Literature

Book and thesis
1.	Papers	(Re-)Imagining Jade Childs in Tar Baby: "Village Literature," Unpublished Screenplays, and Voices of the Post-Soul Generation Black Studies,pp.43-52 (Sole-authored) 2019/03
2.	Papers	Tha Pain and Creativity in the Diaspora: Toni Morrison's "Foreigner's Home.",pp.81-84 (Sole-authored) 2008/03
3.	Other	Translation Series of Black Feminist Texts (1): Frances Beale, “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female” (1970).,pp.171-181 (Sole-authored) 2024/03
4.	Other	African American Women and Literature,pp.66-73 (Sole-authored) 2023/03
5.	Other	Workshop Report for the 61st General Meeting of the American Literature Society of Japan. Black Studies,pp.89-97 (Co-authored) 2023/03

Lecturer and lecture
1.	2017/03/03	“Of Futurity, Then and Now: Re-Reading Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby (1981)” (University of California, Irvine, USA)
2.	2006/11/29	"It Was Coincidence but Not Coincidence: A Japanese Reading of African American Women Writers" (The Carl Fields Center at Princeton University)

Academic conference presentation
1.	2022/04/16	”’More than Human’ and African American Literature"
2.	2015/09/25	“It Was a Coincidence but Not Coincidence: My Thirty Years of Studying and Teaching African American Literature in Japan.” On panel of “We Who Are Japanese African Americanists: Intellectual Autobiographies of Japan Black Studies Association (JBSA) Members.” (The 100th Annual ASALH Meeting and Conference)