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Shion Kono

コウノ シオン | Shion Kono
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Research field  (1): Literature - General
Research keywords  (3): Plurilingualism in modern Japanese literature ,  Japanese literature as world literature ,  Translation and circulation of Japanese literature
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (2):
  • 2020 - 2023 Re-examining Mori Ogai's Perspectives on "Languages" from Plurilingualism
  • 2011 - 2014 A Comprehensive Study of Early Translations of Modern Japanese Literature into European Languages, With a Focus on Meiji and Taisho Periods
Papers (16):
  • Kono Shion. The Possibilities of "Choosing to Write in Japanese": Reading Mizumura Minae's Shishosetsu from Left to Right through Plurilingualism. Modern Japanese Literary Studies (Nihon Kindai Bungaku). 2020. 102. 71-86
  • Shion Kono. Reading Japanese Literature from the World Reader: Transformation of two modes of reading. Border-Crossings: The Journal of Japanese-Language Literary Studies. 2017. 5. 83-90
  • Shion Kōno. Deepening reception and evolving translation of contents: through a case-study of the English-language translation and cinematization of All You Need Is Kill. Journal of Contents History Studies. 2017. 10-11. 10. 101-114
  • Shion Kono. The sign of magical realism: Getting to know the world through world literature (on Gabriel Garcia-Marquez). Eureka!. 2014. 46. 8. 148-154
  • KONO Shion. Style manuals for English-language scholarly articles and Humanities. Modern Japanese Literary Studies. 2013. 88. 150-153
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MISC (29):
  • 河野至恩. 記憶とバーチャルのベルリン 最終回 「移動」の文学について考え続けること--多和田葉子『雪の練習生』を読む. ゲンロンβ. 2023. 83
  • 河野至恩. 記憶とバーチャルのベルリン(9) ベルリンで思い出す、大江健三郎が残したもの. ゲンロンβ. 2023. 82
  • 河野至恩. 記憶とバーチャルのベルリン(8) 人生を通しての言語とのつきあい方. ゲンロンβ. 2023. 80+81
  • 河野至恩. 記憶とバーチャルのベルリン(7) 2022年のベルリンと鷗外(後篇). ゲンロンβ. 2022. 79
  • 河野至恩. 記憶とバーチャルのベルリン(6) 2022年のベルリンと鷗外(前篇). ゲンロンβ. 2022. 75
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Books (18):
  • An Encyclopedia of Modern Japanese Literature, Expanded and Revised Digital Edition
    Kodansha 2022
  • Crossing the Borders to Modernity: Fictional Characters as Representations of Alternative Concepts of Life in Meiji Literature (1868-1912)
    Harrassowitz Verlag 2022
  • 古典の未来学 : projecting classicism
    文学通信 2020 ISBN:9784909658395
  • 『越境する歴史学と世界文学』
    臨川書店 2020
  • Opening the Doors to Japanese Studies
    Koyo Shobo 2019
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Lectures and oral presentations  (51):
  • Mori Ōgai and the poetics of code-switching
    (The 61st Japan Comparative Literature Association Tokyo Regional Meeting 2023)
  • Translators on the move: mobility, plurilingualism, and networks in early translators of modern Japanese literature
    (EAJS2023, the 17th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies 2023)
  • Commentator on KATAOKA Mai's lecture "Genius Loci in English renditions of modern Japanese literature: with special references to Osaragi Jiro, Oe Kenzaburö, and Yu Miri"
    (The 276th Nichibunken Thursday Seminar 2023)
  • Mori Ōgai: A Multilingual Thinker
    (Workshop "Mori Ōgai and the Diversity of Knowledge" 2023)
  • Mori Ōgai: The Plurilingual Self and Untranslatability in Modern Japanese Literary Space
    (An invited lecture at University College Cork 2023)
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Education (2):
  • 1995 - 2003 Princeton University Comparative Literature Japanese and British Literatures
  • 1991 - 1995 Bowdoin College Physics Religion (double majior) Physics Religion (double majior)
Professional career (3):
  • A.B. (Bowdoin College)
  • M.A. (Princeton University)
  • Ph.D (Princeton University)
Work history (10):
  • 2022/04 - 現在 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Professor
  • 2010/04 - 2022/03 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Associate Professor
  • 2020/07 - 2020/09 Chiba University Faculty of Letters Part-time Lecturer
  • 2018/04 - 2019/03 Rikkyo University College of Arts Lecturer
  • 2017/10 - 2019/03 The University of Tokyo Faculty of Letters Part-time Lecturer
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Committee career (4):
  • 2022/04 - 現在 日本近代文学会 評議員
  • 2021/04 - 現在 昭和文学会 幹事
  • 2018/08 - 2020/07 Showa Bungakukai Editorial Committee Member
  • 2009/04 - 2011/03 Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies Organizing Committee Member
Association Membership(s) (5):
日本近代文学会 ,  Association for Japanese Literary Studies ,  森鴎外記念会 ,  日本比較文学会 ,  Association for Asian Studies
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