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Onuma Yu

オオヌマ ユフ | Onuma Yu
Affiliation and department：
Doshisha University Department of English, Faculty of Letters

About Doshisha University Department of English, Faculty of Letters


Job title： Professor
Research field  (1)： Literature - British/English-languag
Research keywords  (6)： Encyclopaedia ,  Natural History ,  Marvels ,  Travels ,  Medieval English Literature ,  Reception of Classical Literature
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (7)：
  • 2022 - 2027 Mobility and Self-Identity in Medieval English Literature
  • 2018 - 2023 The Natural and the Supernatural in Comparative Perspective
  • 2017 - 2023 The Dissemination of Knowledge: Encyclopedias in the Middle Ages
  • 2022 - Narrative and Mobility in Medieval Europe
  • 2012 - 2016 Understanding the Supernatural in Medieval Europe (with special reference to late-medieval English literature)
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Papers (23)：
  • Yu Onuma. "The Fate of the Gigantes: Tracing the Representation of Giants from Classical to Medieval Europe.". Topos of Giants: Figures of Giants in Ancient Oriental, Jewish, Islamic, and European Cultures. Ed. Etsuko Katsumata (Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions, Doshisha University). 2023. 59-79
  • Yu Onuma. “Physical, Mental, and Linguistic Travels: Images of England in the English and French Versions of Mandeville Travels.”. Narative and Mobility in Medieval Europe Ed. Yu Onuma and Satoko Tokunaga (Chisen Shokan). 2022. 5-21
  • Yu Onuma. "Otherness as an Ideal: The Tradition of the ‘Virtuous’ Indians". 'Otherness' in the Middle Ages. Ed. Hans-Werner Goetz and Ian Wood (Brepols). 2021. 319-338
  • Yu Onuma. "Manticore Variations between Fact and Fiction,". <I>The Fantastic and the Supernatural in English Literature IV<i>. Ed. Masao Higashi and Masaya Shimokusu (Shumpu-sha). 2020. 54-75
  • Yu Onuma. The Great Khan and the Mongols in Mandeville’s Travels: Medieval European Observation and Imagination. Études Médiévales Anglaises. 2020. 95. 41-66
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MISC (13)：
  • Yu Onuma. Review of Emily Steiner John Trevisa’s Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400. Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. xii + 287. Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature. 2024. 39. 37-41
  • Satoko Tokunaga, Yu Onuma. Editors' introduction on <i>Narrative and Mobility in Medieval Europe<i>. Mita Hyoron. 2023. 1275. 88
  • Yu Onuma. Introduction. Narrative and Mobility in Medieval Europe. 2022. v-viii
  • Yu Onuma. "27. Vincentius Bellovacensis, Speculum naturale," "28. Vincentius Bellovacensis, Speculum doctrinale," "29. Vincentius Bellovacensis, Speculum historialle," "30. Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum". Age of Incunabula, Ed. Mari Agata. 2018
  • Taro Ishiguro, Yu Onuma. Lecturer at The 16th Workshop for Aid and Support for Research by the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies. 2016
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Books (1)：
  • <i>Narrative and Mobility in Medieval Europe</i>
    Chisen Shokan 2022 ISBN:9784862853776
Lectures and oral presentations  (30)：
  • Travelling Marvels: Seeing Classical Reception through the Lens of Medieval Wonders
    (Medieval Research Seminar 2024)
  • Examining the Role of the Narrator in the Multilingual Textual Tradition of <i>Mandeville’s Travels</i>
    (International Medieval Congress 2024)
  • Mobility and Identity in Medieval European Literature
    (Doshisha University-EHESS Meeting & Seminar 2023)
  • Monsters in <i>Liber monstrorum<i>
    (Symposium entitled 'Monsters and Medieval English Literature', The 95th Annual General Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan 2023)
  • The Role of Prester John in <i>Mandeville’s Travels <i>
    (Mandeville 700 2022)
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Works (3)：
  • Brief Notice: James G. Clark, Frank T. Coulson & Kathryn L. McKinley (eds), <i>Ovid in the Middle Ages</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
    2013 -
  • Joint translation of <i>The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales</i>, ed. by Chris Baldick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
    2012 -
  • Brief Notice:Suzanne Conklin Akbari, <i>Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient (1100-1450) </i> (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009)
    2011 -
Professional career (3)：
  • PhD in Letters (Keio University)
  • Master of Philosophy (Medieval Studies) (University of Birmingham)
  • Master of Arts in Letters (Keio University)
Work history (4)：
  • 2021 - 現在 Doshisha University Faculty of Letters Department of English Professor
  • 2024/09 - 2025/08 University of Cambridge Clare Hall Visiting Fellow
  • 2014 - 2021 Doshisha University Faculty of Letters Department of English Associate Professor
  • 2009 - 2014 Doshisha University Faculty of Letters Department of English Assistant Professor
Committee career (6)：
  • 2019 - 現在 Japan Society for Medieval European Studies Programming Committee
  • 2018/04 - 2024/03 The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies Councillor
  • 2021/04 - 2023/03 The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies General Secretary
  • 2009 - 2023 Japan Society for Medieval European Studies Secretary
  • 2015 - 2019 The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies Editorial Board
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Awards (1)：
  • 2008 - The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies Conference Presentation Grant
Association Membership(s) (4)：
The English Literary Society of Japan ,  The West Branch of Japan Society for Medieval English Studies ,  The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies ,  Japan Society for Medieval European Studies
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