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Wakana Higashi Maya

ワカナ マヤ | Wakana Higashi Maya
Affiliation and department:
Research field  (1): Literature - British/English-languag
Research keywords  (1): British and American literature, microsociology, social psychology, intimacies
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (2):
  • 2007 - 2008 ヘンリー・ジェームズのCivility概念に内包する現代的ジレンマの解明: ジェーン・オースティン編 (A Microsociological Approach to English and American Literature: A Study of Jane Austen)
  • 2005 - 2005 """Obsessed by James: The Case of 'The Real Thing'"" (ベニスにて開催されたヘンリー・ジェームズ国際学会、学会報告参加旅費助成)"
Papers (2):
  • Maya Higashi Wakana. The Wings of the Dove. Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 2005. 47:1, 31-60
  • Maya Higashi WAKANA. The Social World of Henry James's The Spoils of Poynton: Reciprocity, Allegiances, and Human Behavior. The International Studies Association of Ritsumeikan University: Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies. 2004. 3. 141-155
Books (4):
  • "Value in Henry James's 'Paste' (1899): Understanding James as a Microsociologist" in *<I>ransforming Henry James</I>, eds. Donatello Izzo, Anna Despotopoulou, Anna De Biasio.
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013 ISBN:9781443846141
  • <I>Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels</I>
    Ashgate Publishing 2009 ISBN:9780754667445
  • "'Obsessed' with James: Professionalism vs. Amateurism in 'The Real Thin.'" in <I>Tracing Henry James</I>, eds. Greg Zacharias and Melanie Ross.
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008 ISBN:9781847189158
  • "Impression Management in Henry James's 'An International Episode'" in <I>Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2007</I>, ed. by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007 ISBN:9781847184184
Lectures and oral presentations  (15):
  • "Things, Face, and Emotion in Henry James's <I>The Spoils of Poynton</I>."
    (The Sixth International Conference for the Henry James Society. “The Real Thing: Henry James and the Material World.” 2014)
  • “Bodies Speaking in George Eliot’s <I>The Mill on the Floss</I> (1860).”
    (45th Annual Convention of NeMLA (Northeast MLA) hosted by Susquehanna University, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 2014)
  • "Everyday Aestheticism in Wharton's <I>Ethan Frome</I>"
    (Edith Wharton in Florence: A Sesquicentennial Conference sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society, Marist College, Florence 2012)
  • "A Microsociological Analysis of Henry James's 'Paste' (1899)"
    ("Transforming Henry James," the Fifth International Conference of the Henry James Society 2011)
  • "Fashioning the Self in Edith Wharton's <I>The Age of Innocence</I>"
    (NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 2011)
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Education (3):
  • - 1986 Kwansei Gakuin University "Graduate School, Division of Letters"
  • - 1982 The University of Virginia English Department, School of Arts and Sciences English and American Literature
  • - 1980 Kwansei Gakuin University Faculty of Literature
Professional career (2):
  • Ph.D. (Kansai University)
  • Master of Arts (University of Virginia (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of English))
Work history (1):
  • Ritsumeikan University College of International Relations, Department of International Relations Professor
Association Membership(s) (4):
The Edith Wharton Society ,  Modern Language Association ,  日本アメリカ文学会 ,  Henry James Society
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