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ASOU Erika

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

Business career
1.	1997/04/01 ～ 2001/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English
2.	2001/04/01 ～ 2007/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English
3.	2007/04/01 ～ 2014/03/31	Associate Professor Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English
4.	2014/04/01 ～	Professor Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English

Belonging society
1.	2005/12 ～	D. H. Lawrence Society of Japan
2.	2006/01 ～	The Virginia Woolf Society of Japan
3.	2012/12 ～	The Oscar Wilde Society of Japan

Official position and committee in Univ.
1.	2014/04/01 ～ 2016/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University Curriculum Coordinator

Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
1.	2006/04 ～	The representation of the outsiders in English modernist novels Individual Research
2.	2010/04 ～	Cosmopolitanism in modern British Novels: the represenation of wars in the novels of Virginia Woolf and Kazuo Ishiguro Individual Research
3.	2012/04 ～	The Representation of Nuclear Energy in English Novels Individual Research

Book and thesis
1.	Books	The War Complex and Us: The Representation of the Sino-Japanese War and Cosmopolitanism in J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and Keiko Itoh's My Shanghai 1942-1946 Japanese Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro,pp.179-202 (Sole-authored) 2024/01
2.	Books	Unpublished draft of an Early Novel "Flight from Nagasaki": Kazuo Ishiguro's Representation of the Atomic Bomb Kazuo Ishiguro and Japan: From Ghost to War Guilt,pp.95-116 (Sole-authored) 2020/10
3.	Papers	Deprovincialising the First World War: Critical Cosmopolitanism in Mrs Dalloway and When We Were Orphans 青山学院大学文学部『紀要』 (61),pp.1-14 (Sole-authored) 2020/03
4.	Papers	Travel Writing of an Isolate Butler: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day as Cold War Fiction Virginia Woolf Review,pp.1-23 (Sole-authored) 2018/11
5.	Papers	Living in the Plutoniumu Society: A Reading of Never Let Me Go as Nuclear Fiction,pp.51-68 (Sole-authored) 2014/03
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Lecturer and lecture
1.	2025/08/23	Trees, Gardens and War in Mrs Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway’s Centennial and Beyond: The Special Symposium (Tsuru University)
2.	2021/02/25	The Representation of Women and War by Virginia Woolf: The Years (1937)

Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/12/03	Beyond War: Representations of War, Peace, and Nature in Modernist Literature
2.	2025/07/19	Trees, Gardens and Peace: Reading Mrs Dalloway (1925) Now
3.	2024/08/07	The Snail and the War: Virginia Woolf's Earliest “fight with the mind”in “Kew Gardens” and “The Mark on the Wall” (Storytelling for Environmental Futures)
4.	2024/05/31	Women's Time Perspective to Prevent War: Past, Present and Future in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts (“Modernism between Past and Future” The Third International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA))
5.	2019/09/13	Cosmopolitanism in Virginia Woolf and Kazuo Ishiguro: Mrs Dalloway and When We Were Orphans (The Second Annual International Conference of the Modernist Studies Association in Asia Network(MSIA))