Faculty Information

Specialization and related fields

Business career

Belonging society

Official position and committee in Univ.

Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense

Activity in society

Book and thesis

Academic conference presentation

（Last updated : 2024-09-26 12:18:19）

TONOOKA Naomi
Department Aoyama Gakuin University Department of English, College of Literature

Position Professor

■ Specialization and related fields

English literature and literature in the English language, American Drama and Theatre

■ Business career

1.	1990/04～1995/03	Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English
2.	1995/04～2004/03	Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English
3.	2004/04～	Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English Professor

■ Belonging society

1.	2024/04	∟ Advisory Board
2.	2022/01～	Japan Black Studies Association

■ Official position and committee in Univ.

1.	2017/12/16～2019/12/15	Aoyama Gakuin University Vice President
2.	2016/06/01～2017/12/15	Aoyama Gakuin University Vice President
3.	2014/04/01～2016/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University Chair
4.	2006/04/01～2008/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University Curriculum Coordinator

■ Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense

2022/04～2025/03

Politics of Affects and the Body in Contemporary American Theatre: Kushner, Parks and Joseph (Key Word : American Theatre, Subject, Affect, Kushner, Parks, Joseph)

■ Activity in society

1.	2021/12～2021/12	Theater Emerging from Conflict Zones 13: Panel Session
2.	2011/10～2011/12	Reading Contemporary American Plays - Theater Studies Seminar
3.	2001/04～2002	Women Playwrights International, International Advisory Committee
4.	1999/04～2001/03	Organizing Committee Member - The Third Conference for Asian Women and Theatre
5.	1990～1992	Organizing Committee Member - The First Conference for Asian Women and Theatre

■ Book and thesis

1.	Article	"Free" Marketplaces and "Free" Subjects: Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Black Studies (93),pp.30-39 (Single) 2024/03
2.	Other	Toward the Creation of a New Culture: The Genealogy and Present of African American Theatre Theatre Yearbook 2024 pp.150-172 (Single) 2024/03
3.	Article	"On Pain and Disgust: Ron Athey and the Performance of Affect" pp.55-76 (Single) 2015/03
4.	Article	"Art and Urban Space: Rent, the East Village, and the Construction of Meaning" The Japanese Journal of American Studies 19,pp.139-157 (Single) 2008
5.	Article	“Specters of History: Ana-chronistic Politics in Tony Kushner's Angels in America.” Proceedings of the Kyoto American Studies Summer Seminar, 2005. pp.237-246 (Single) 2006/03
6.	Other	Theater - United States of America Britannica International Yearbook 2024 pp.118-118 (Single) 2024/05
7.	Other	Theatre: The United States of America Britannica International Yearbook 2023 pp.130-130 (Single) 2023/05
8.	Other	Toward a Restructuring of the Theatre Industry Theatre Yearbook 2023 pp.32-39 (Single) 2023/03
9.	Other	Book Review Masayuki Kishi, XCIX,pp.93-97 (Single) 2022/12
10.	Other	Theatre--the United States of America Britannica International Yearbook 2022 (Single) 2022/05
11.	Other	Repairing the Divide: Toward Transformation of the American Theatre Theatre Yearbook 2022 pp.６５-72 (Single) 2022/03
12.	Other	Theatre: The United States of America Britannica International Yearbook pp.134 (Single) 2021/05
13.	Other	Pandemic Highlights the Walls：Necessity and Impossibility of Dialogue Theatre Yearbook 2021 pp.78-87 (Single) 2021/03
14.	Other	Theatre-The United States of America Britannica International Yearbook 2020 pp.153-154 (Single) 2020/05
15.	Other	Theatre: The United States of America Britannica International Yearbook 2019 pp.151-152 (Single) 2019/05
16.	Other	What the Constitution Means to Me: Feminism Revisited Theatre Yearbook 2019 pp.63-72 (Single) 2019/03
17.	Other	Theater : United States of America Britannica International Yearbook 2018 pp.173-174 (Single) 2018/05
18.	Other	The American Theatre in an Age of "Post-Truth" Theatre Yearbook 2018 pp.73-80 (Single) 2018/03
19.	Other	"American Drama" in Chapter 14, Literature, Encyclopedia of American Cutlure pp.552-553 (Single) 2018/01
20.	Other	The Search for "Experience": Experiential Theater and Third Rail Projects Theatre Yearbook 2017 Theatre Abroad pp.53-60 (Single) 2017/03
21.	Other	"Paradigm Shift!" : Transformation of Sensibility Toward Diversity Theatre Yearbook 2016 pp.94-102 (Single) 2016/03
22.	Other	Book Review: Marvin McAllister, Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels & Stage Europeans in African American Performance. Studies in English Literature pp.169-174 (Single) 2016
23.	Other	From the Civil War to the Post-9/11 Era: Innovative Productions at the Public Theater Theatre Yearbook 2015 pp.87-95 (Single) 2015/03
24.	Other	Theatrical Traditions and New Developments in Musicals Theatre Yearbook 2024 pp.110-114 (Single) 2014/03
25.	Other	Live Performances and Multimedia Theater Theatre Year-Book 2013 pp.90-95 (Single) 2013/03
26.	Other	American Theatre in 2011: Social Inequality and Globalization Theatre Yearbook 2012 pp.99-104 (Single) 2012/03
27.	Other	American Theatre in 2010: Revisiting History: Crossing Borders with Imagination Theatre Yearbook 2011 pp.74-78 (Single) 2011/03
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■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2023/11/18	The Subject in Transformation: Tony Kushner's Angels in America and Homebody/Kabul (Meeting of the Tokyo American Literature Society)
2.	2023/06/24	“Free” Marketplaces and “Free” Subjects: Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (The Japan Black Studies Association The 69th Annual Conference)
3.	2021/12/04	(THE KYUSHU AMERICAN LITERATURE SOCIETY)
4.	2018/10/06	The End of Liberal Politics in American Theatre in the 2010s
5.	2005/08/03	"Specters of History: Ana-chronistic Politics in Tony Kushner's Angels in America" (第10回京都アメリカ研究夏季セミナー)
6.	1999/07/24	"Tari Ito and Rio Kishida：Problems in Feminist Research" (International Federation for Theatre Research, Feminist Research Meeting(International Federation for Theatre Research, Feminist Research Group）)
7.	1998/07/10	"Desire,Identification,and Sexual (In)difference:Constructing Lesbian Self and Desire in Tari Ito's Performance with the Skin" (International Federation for Theatre Research,ⅩⅢ World Congress Canterbury,United Kingdom)
8.	1996/08/08	"Identity in Flux:Requestioning the Nation in a ‘Minority’ play in Japan." (The Association for Theatre in Higher Education,National Conference)
9.	1996/08/08	"Self,Motherhood,History:Japanese Women's Theatre from the 1970s to the 1990s." (The Association for Theatre in Higher Education,National Conference)
10.	1995/08/11	"Performance vs Epistemology:Rio Kishida's Blessings of Time" (Association for Theatre in Higher Education,National Conference)
11.	1994/07/08	"On the First Conference for Asian Women and Theatre." (The 3rd International Women Playwrights Conference)
12.	1993/08/05	"On the First Conference for Asian Women and Theatre." (The Association for Theatre in Higher Education,National Conference)
13.	1992/08/03	"The Mother as a Site for Contestation" (The Association for Theatre in Higher Education National Conference)
14.	1991/08/08	"Can an All-Woman Theatre Group Present New Images of Asian Women?:A Case of the Blue Bird Theatre Company" (The Association for Theatre in Higher Education National Conference)
15.	1991/08/04	"The Politics of Location:Cultural Translation and Interpretive Schema" (Women and Theatre Conference)
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