Faculty Information

■ Specialization and related fields

Literature(American Modernism, Modern and Contemporary Culture), Literary Criticism/Theory (Cultural, Aesthetic, Feminist), Language (English), Language (Japanese), Gothic & Grotesque, Postcolonial Literature/Theory, Multicultural Literatures of the US; Visual Culture, Gender Studies

■ Business career

1.

2015/04～

Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English Professor

■ Winning science prize

1.	2014/01	American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (ACLS/SSRC/NEH) at Virginia Foundation
2.	2010/07	Middlebury College Kathyrn Davis Fellowship for Peace Critical Languages Scholarship

■ Official position and committee in Univ.

1.	2018/04/01～2020/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University Associate Director, The International Center
2.	2020/04/01～2021/08/31	Aoyama Gakuin University Associate Director, The International Center

■ Book and thesis

1.	Book	“Racial Debts, Individual Slights, and Sleights of Hand in Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust.” Faulkner and Money: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2017 pp.186-207 (Single) 2019/07
2.	Book	"Guam, Un-Inc.: or, Craig Santos Perez's Transterrritorial Challenges to American Studies as Usual." The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies pp.338-346 (Single) 2019
3.	Book	“Invasive Species: Manga’s Insect-Human Worlds.” Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives (Single) 2017
4.	Book	“William Faulkner’s Illustrious Circles: Double-Dealing Caricatures in Style and Taste.” Faulkner and Print Culture: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2015 pp.28-50 (Single) 2017
5.	Book	"Swinks and Snopeses: The Germ of the 'Global Provincial' in Twain and Faulkner" <i>Twain and Faulkner: Essays</i> pp.191-241 (Single) 2009
6.	Book	"Writing the Body - as Meat: Kanai Mieko's 'Rotting Meat' as Surreal Fable" Observing Japan from Within pp.161-188 (Single) 2004
7.	Book	"Kanai Mieko" <i>the Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature</i> (Ed. Joshua Mostow) pp.242-245 2003
8.	Book	"Japanese Literature" <i>the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women </i>(Eds.Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender) pp.1264-1267 (Single) 2001
9.	Article	“from unincorporated territory ~ to Craig Santos Perez’s Poemaps.” Journal of Keio American Studies pp.164-176 (Single) 2020/06
10.	Article	“The Endless Fascination of ‘Insect Literature’” (Single) 2020/04
11.	Article	“Strange Fruit and Patriotic Flowers: E. McKnight Kauffer’s Illustrated South.” Southern Cultures 25(4),pp.54-81 (Single) 2019/12
12.	Article	“Lines of Correspondence: E. McKnight Kauffer’s Original Dust Jacket Art for William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun.” Notes and Queries pp.665-668 (Single) 2017/11
13.	Article	"The Masochist's Masquerade: Kôno Taeko's 'Beautiful Girl' (Bishôjo).” Japan Forum 29(4),pp.496-517 (Single) 2017
14.	Article	“Hearing Secret Voices in Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.” Mark Twain Journal pp.75-99 (Single) 2017
15.	Article	"Becoming Insect Woman':Tezuka's Feminist Species" Mechademia Vol.8, Special Issue on Tezuka Osamu "Tezuka's Manga Life" pp.3-24 (Single) 2013
16.	Article	"Down the Rabbit Hole: In Pursuit of Shojo Alices, From Lewis Carroll to Kanai Meiko" U.S-Japan Women's Journal 40,pp.49-89 (Single) 2011
17.	Article	"Chiasmatic Narrative and Twisted Subjectivity in Kanai Mieko's Boshizo" Journal of Women and Textuality (Centre Dona i Literatura Universitat de Barcelona) 16,pp.107-124 (Single) 2010
18.	Article	"The Daemonic Conscience in Twain and Faulkner" Mark Twain Studies 3. Special Centenary Issue pp.113-156 (Single) 2010
19.	Article	“Kurahashi Yumiko’s Amanonkoku Okanki and Gender Politics in Japan.” Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies [PAJLS] 8,pp.301-327 (Single) 2008
20.	Article	"'Was Huck Bura(k)ku?': Reading and Teaching Twain in Asian Pacific World Literature" Mark Twain Studies 1(1),pp.90-110 (Single) 2004
21.	Article	"Tracing the Body of the Question Mark: Kanai Mieko's Ai Aru Kagiri" PMAJLS (Association for Japanese Literary Studies) 5,pp.286-299 (Single) 1999
22.	Other	(Review)Rachel Hutchinson, Nagai Kafu's Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self Japan Forum 25(4),pp.414-417 (Collaboration) 2013
23.	Other	Tezuka Osamu's "feminist" manga "Diary of an Insect Shojo's Vagabond Life"　『昆虫少女の放浪記』 Mechademia Vol.8, Special Issue on Tezuka Osamu, "Tezuka's Manga Life" pp.25-33 (Single) 2013
24.	Other	"Mark Twain Studies 3"（Ed. Tatsumi Takayuki, KNIGHTON,M.A.） Special centenary Issue,Japan Mark Society. Feature: Faulkner/Twain 2010
25.	Other	(Review)Tsuyoshi Ishihara, Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon 『英文学研究』<i>Journal of the American Literary Studies Association of Japan</i> pp.107-116 2007
26.	Other	(Review)"History and Memory in Faulkner's Novels"(Eds. Ikuko Fujihira, Noel Polk, Hisao Tanaka) Journal of the English Literary Studies Association of Japan 5 5,pp.94-99 2006
27.	Other	(Review)Thadious M. Davis, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses" Journal of the William Faulkner Society of Japan 7,pp.166-169 2005
28.	Other	"Metabolism," "Tange Kenzo," and twelve other entries on Modern architecture in Japan Encyclopedia of Conpemporary Japanese Culture (Ed.Sandra Buckley) (Collaboration) 2001
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■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2019/11	“Craig Santos Perez in the Frame of Transnational Studies,” (American Studies Association, (ASA))
2.	2019/09	“In the Heart of the Heart of Alterity.” (Modernist Studies in Asia (MSIA) Conference, Tokyo)
3.	2019/03/08	“All is Revolutionary in Art and War: Onchi, Rexroth, Hasegawa” (芸術と戦争においては全てが革命的である：遠地輝武、ケネス・レクスロス、長谷川三郎) (文学による日米の架け橋‐ケネス・レクスロス、翻訳、戦争」Rethinking the Legacy of Kenneth Rexroth: Literature, Translation, War)
4.	2017/09/12	“Why Should We Care About Six-Legged Characters?”
5.	2017/06/02	“Beauty Queens under Occupation.” Response to Jan Bardsley, “Democracy’s Poster Girls: Beauty Queens and Fashion Models in Cold War Japan.” (Jan Bardsley Special Lecture: “Democracy’s Poster Girls: Beauty Queens and Fashion Models in Cold War Japan.”)
6.	2016/12	“Hearing Secret Voices in Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.” (Aoyama Gakuin University Annual Conference, English Department)
7.	2016/11	“Hearing Secret Voices in Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.” (“Mark Twain and Women” at the Mark Twain Society of Japan annual meeting)
8.	2014	“Disastrous ‘Comic’ Affects: The Representational Crisis of 3.11.” (UC Berkeley Fukushima Symposium)
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