(Last updated : 2024-08-23 15:59:45)
  ASOU Erika
   Department   Aoyama Gakuin University  Department of English, College of Literature
   Position   Professor
■ Specialization and related fields
English literature and literature in the English language 
■ Business career
1. 1997/04~2001/03 Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English
2. 2001/04~2007/03 Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English
3. 2007/04~2014/03 Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English Associate Professor
4. 2014/04~ Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English Professor
■ 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. 2012/04~  The Representation of Nuclear Energy in English Novels  (Key Word : )
2. 2010/04~  Cosmopolitanism in modern British Novels: the represenation of wars in the novels of Virginia Woolf and Kazuo Ishiguro  (Key Word : )
3. 2006/04~  The representation of the outsiders in English modernist novels  (Key Word : )
■ Book and thesis
1. Book 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 (Single) 2024/01
2. Book Unpublished draft of an Early Novel "Flight from Nagasaki": Kazuo Ishiguro's Representation of the Atomic Bomb Kazuo Ishiguro and Japan: From Ghost to War Guilt pp.95-116 (Single) 2020/10
3. Article 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 (Single) 2020/03
4. Article Travel Writing of an Isolate Butler: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day as Cold War Fiction Virginia Woolf Review pp.1-23 (Single) 2018/11
5. Article Living in the Plutoniumu Society: A Reading of Never Let Me Go as Nuclear Fiction  pp.51-68 (Single) 2014/03
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■ Lecturer and lecture
1. 2021/02/25 The Representation of Women and War by Virginia Woolf: The Years (1937)
■ Academic conference presentation
1. 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)
2. 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))
3. 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))