Job title:
Professor
Research theme for competitive and other funds (15):
2012 - Tezuka Osamu's ASTRO BOY, the Cold War, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
2010 - 2010 Hosted writer Sylvia Watanabe through the Meiji Univeristy International Exchange Programs Guest Lecture Series
2010 - Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Narratives of War Memory
2007 - 2007 English pronunciation consultant for the play ASAYAKE NO MANHATTAN (Red Dawn Over Manhattan)
2007 - 2007 Staff Seminar 297 at Meiji University. Screening of Art Nomura's documentary film, "Finding Home," followed by discussion with the filmmaker.
2006 - 2006 International Forum: "America Viewed from the Asian Periphery: 1850-1950 (2004~2006 Jinbunkagaku kenkyujo sogokenkyuhi)
2006 - 2006 Hosted writer Karen Tei Yamashita through the Meiji Univeristy International Exchange Programs Guest Lecture Series
2006 - 2006 Moderator for a lecture by Paul A. Kramer (Johns Hopkins University) at Meiji University
2006 - 2006 Moderator for a lecture by Curtis Marez (University of Southern California) at Meiji University
2005 - 2005 Moderator for a lecture by Patricia P. Chu (George Washington University) at Meiji University
2005 - 2005 Moderator for a lecture by Carla Peterson (University of Maryland) at Meiji University
2004 - 2004 Moderator for a lecture by Philip Seaton (Hokkaido University) at Meiji University
2004 - 2004 Moderator for a lecture by Amy Kaplan (University of Pennsylvania) at Meiji University
2004 - 2004 Moderator for a lecture by Marita Sturken (University of Southern California) at Meiji University
2002 - Literary Narratives and Public Memory about the Asia Pacific fronts of WWII
"The Transpacific Gaze in TROPIC OF ORANGE". Paradoxa. 2010. 22. 77-100
Bungei Kenkyu (Studies in Art and Literature). "The Cats of Murakami: The Art of War Memory in Karen Tei Yamashita's TROPIC OF ORANGE, Murakami Haruki's KAFKA ON THE SHORE, and Linda Hattendorf's THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI". 2008. 106. 1-35
"Japanese/American Multiculturalism: A Reader's Guide for the 21st Century". Studies in Art and Literature. 2006. 99. 78-80
"Masculinity and Post-9/11 Internment Memory: Perry Miyake's 21st CENTURY MANZANAR". AALA Journal (Asian American Literature Association, Japan). 2006. 12. 1-9
"Tezuka Osamu's ASTRO BOY and Nuclear History"
(Prof. Sylvia Watanabe's seminar "Nuclear Nightmares and Atomic Histories" at Oberlin College 2012)
"The Nuclear Graveyard in OBASAN: Remembering Nagasaki in the Wake of 3-11"
(The Third International Conference on Asian British and Asian American Literatures 2011)
"Cultural Production, Collective Catastrophe, History and Memory, Progress and Repair" (on the Nanjing Massacre of 1937)
(one event in Brown University's "Year of China" 2011)
"Crossing Borders, Environment, Women" (featuring talks by Karen Tei Yamashita, Trinh Minh-ha, Yuko Tsushima)
(76th International PEN Conference in Tokyo 2010)
"Atrocity Photo Poetry: A Reading of Wing Tek Lum's 'Nanjing Series'"
(Asian American Studies in Asia: An International Workshop 2010)
Reading Japanese American Literature: Legacy of Three Generations
Teruyo Ueki, co-editor 1999 -
Committee career (2):
2000 - 2000 Japanese Association for American Studies Associate Editor
2000 - 2000 日本アメリカ学会 Associate Editor
Awards (5):
2010/07 - Funding for a Visiting Scholar vis Meiji University International Exchange Program
2006/10 - Funding for a Visiting Scholar via Meiji University International Exchange Program
2004/04 - Meiji University Institute of Humanities Grant Type 1 (Jinbun Kagaku Kenkyuujo Sougou Kenkyuu Daiisshu)
2001/04 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Basic Research Grant C-1
1982/04 - Toyota Foundation Fellowship
Association Membership(s) (7):
English Literature Society of Japan
, アジア系アメリカ文学研究会
, Ameican Literature Society of Japan
, Japanese Association for American Studies
, Modern Language Association
, Association for Asian American Studies
, American Studies Association