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NAKAJIMA WATARU

ナカジマ ワタル | NAKAJIMA WATARU
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Research field  (4): History - Europe/America ,  Politics ,  History of thought ,  Literature - British/English-languag
Research keywords  (3): Jonathan Swift ,  History of Political Thought ,  Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (7):
  • 2024 - Intellectual History of Britain as a Composite State with a Special Focus on the Balance and Control of Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces within a Nation: Aspects of Reconstructing Compositeness of the State
  • 2023 - Commemorative Project for the 50th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Japanese Society for British Philosophy
  • 2021 - 2023 Investigations on Modern British Intellectual History with Special Attention to the Nature of Composite States: Balance and Control of Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces within a Nation
  • 2019 - 2020 Jonathan Swift as a Conservative Trimmer: An Ideological Reading of His English Politico-Religious Writings, 1701-1726
  • 2018 - Working Group for Dublin Studies
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Papers (21):
  • "Gulliver-ryoko-ki no gyokan kara mieru sekai (3): Sakuhin ni toeisareru sakusha Swift no shinjo to ishiki" ["A Survey of the Fresh Vistas between the Lines of Gulliver's Travels (3): The Reflections of Swift's Sentiments and Ideas in the Text of the Travels"]. _Asterisk_. 2022. 30. 29-48
  • "Gulliver-ryoko-ki no gyokan kara mieru sekai (2): Swift no raireki wo tadoru" ["A Survey of the Fresh Vistas between the Lines of Gulliver's Travels (2): Swift's Personal History"]. _Asterisk_. 2021. 29. 16-26
  • "Juhasseiki-igirisu-shosetsu" ["Eighteenth-Century English Novel"] (Survey). _Studies in British Philosophy_. 2020. 43. 111-116
  • "Gulliver-ryoko-ki no gyokan kara mieru sekai (1): Chu no koyo to bungaku-sha no shigoto" ["A Survey of the Fresh Vistas between the Lines of Gulliver's Travels (1): The Efficacy of Annotations and the Role of Literary Scholars"]. _Asterisk_. 2020. 28. 26-45
  • "How to Represent the Character and Conduct of 'Robin the Trickster': A Comparison of Defoe's and Swift's Vindications of the Harley Ministry". _Asterisk_. 2015. 23. 2. 44-57
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MISC (37):
  • Review of Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688-1730, by Wolfram Schmidgen (forthcoming). _The Annals of the Japanese Association for the Study of Puritanism_. 2024. 18. in press
  • Review of The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism, by Stefan Collini, translated by Yasuhiro Kondo. _Studies in British Philosophy_. 2023. 46. 55-57
  • "Ichiban-deshi kara mita shisho" ["The Character of the Late Professor Kobayashi: A Memoir by His First Mentee"]. _Soundings_. 2022. 48. 23-27
  • Review of Kenryoku-bunritsu-ron no tanjo: Britain-teikoku no Ho-no-seishin juyo [The Rise of the Theory of the Separation of Powers: The Reception of The Spirit of Laws in the British Empire], by Tsuyoshi Kamimura. _Asterisk_. 2022. 30. 49-52
  • Review of Johnson in Japan, edited by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki. _Annual Bulletin of the Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies_. 2021. 36. 170-172
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Books (8):
  • <I>Keimo-shiso no hyakka-jiten</I> [<I>The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment</I>]
    Maruzen Publishing 2023 ISBN:9784621307854
  • <I>Europe fukugo-kokka-ron no kano-sei: Rekishi-gaku to shiso-shi no taiwa</I> [<I>Exploring the Potential of the Concept of European Composite States: A Dialogue between History and the History of Ideas</I>] (Minerva seiyo-shi library [Minerva Occidental History Library] 116)
    Minerva Shobo 2021 ISBN:9784623090600
  • <I>Yoku wakaru igirisu-bungaku-shi</I> [<I>An Intelligible History of English Literature</I>] (Yawaraka academism: "Wakaru" series [Rudimentary Academism: "Intelligible" Series])
    Minerva Shobo 2020 ISBN:9784623087747
  • <I>Jonathan Swift as a Conservative Trimmer: An Ideological Reading of His English Politico-Religious Writings, 1701-1726</I> (Academic Publication Series of the Institute of Humanities, Meiji U)
    Kinseido 2020 ISBN:9784764711969
  • <I>Meiyo-kakumei to igirisu-bungaku: Atarashii gensetsu-kukan no tanjo</I> [<I>The Glorious Revolution and the Rise of a New Sphere of Discourse: Political Literature and Literary Politics</I>]
    Shumpusha 2014 ISBN:9784861104121
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Lectures and oral presentations  (14):
  • "'Kamiawanai' giron eno shiso-si-gaku karano chosen: Igirisu-fukugo-kokka-ron ni kansuru rekishi-gaku tono taiwa no kokoromi" ["Challenging the Arguments at 'Cross-Purposes' from the Perspective of the History of Ideas: An Experimental Dialogue with Historical Studies concerning the Concept of the British Composite State"] (Joint Respondent)
    (Workshop by the Group of Scholars of the History of Ideas Working on the British Composite State 2021)
  • "Kokkyo-kai-bokushi toshite-no Jonathan Swift: Sono shukyo-teki-gensetsu wo nagameru" ["Jonathan Swift, an Anglican Clergyman: An Overview of His Religious Discourses"]
    (Research Report at the 9th Workshop on Joseph Butler 2020)
  • "Anata no shiranai Jonathan Swift: <I>Gulliver-ryoko-ki</I> no gyokan kara mieru sekai" ["Some Things You Didn't Know about Jonathan Swift: A Fresh Vista Seen between the Lines of <I>Gulliver's Travels"</I>]
    (February Lecture Meeting of the Society of Reliable Adults 2019)
  • "Pope saiho" ["Alexander Pope Revisited"] (Co-Presenter)
    (Symposium at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Johnson Society of Japan 2018)
  • "Hensetsu-sha no hon'i towa? Jonathan Swift no seiji-shiso wo saguru" ["What Is the True Intention of a Supposed Proselyte in Later Stuart Politics? An Exploration of the Political Thought of Jonathan Swift"]
    (Lecture at the 69th Meeting of Soundings English Literary Association 2017)
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Works (4):
  • Henshu-koki [Editor's Postscript]
    2019 -
  • Henshu-koki [Editor's Postscript]
    2018 -
  • Henshu-koki [Editor's Postscript]
    2009 -
  • "Shin-shoin shokai" ["The Introduction of New Members"]
    2007 -
Professional career (1):
  • Doctor of Philosophy in English and American Literature (Sophia University)
Committee career (9):
  • 2022/05 - 現在 Soundings English Literary Association Member of the Board of Directors
  • 2009/04 - 現在 English Literary Society of Sophia University Member of the Board of Councilors
  • 2019/06 - 2022/05 English Literary Society of Japan Member of the Conference Organizing Committee
  • 2016/06 - 2021/06 Japanese Association for the Study of Puritanism Member of the Editorial Board
  • 2016/06 - 2021/06 Japanese Association for the Study of Puritanism Member of the Board of Executive Directors
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Awards (3):
  • 2009/01 - 17th Fukuhara Award (Research Grant Division) from the Fukuhara Memorial Fund for the Studies of English and American Literature
  • 2005/07 - Honorable Mention for the 28th Young Scholar Award from the English Literary Society of Japan
  • 2002/05 - 19th Roggendorf Award from Soundings English Literary Association
Association Membership(s) (9):
Japanese Association for the Study of Puritanism ,  Japanese Society for British Philosophy ,  Kanto Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan ,  Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies ,  English Literary Society of Japan ,  Johnson Society of Japan ,  English Philological Society of Japan ,  Soundings English Literary Association ,  English Literary Society of Sophia University
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