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Thurgill James

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Affiliation and department:
Job title: Project Associate Professor
Research field  (5): Human geography ,  Cultural anthropology and folklore ,  Literature - British/English-languag ,  Local studies ,  Literature - Japanese
Research keywords  (10): Cultural Geography ,  Literary Geography ,  Place ,  Folklore ,  Spatiality ,  Space ,  Haunting ,  Affect ,  Absence ,  Memory
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (2):
  • 2020 - 2024 Literary Geographies of Folklore
  • 2017 - 2019 Literary Geographies of Absence
Papers (13):
  • Thurgill, J. ‘The Spatial Hinge: Reframed’. Literary Geographies. 2023. 9. 2. 261-265
  • Thurgill, J. ‘The Spatial Hinge: An Introduction. Literary Geographies. 2023. 9. 2. 234-236
  • John Pazdziora, James Thurgill. A Relational Literary Geography of George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman. North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies. 2023. 41. 21-42
  • James Thurgill. Spectral Geography: Ghostly narratives and the construction of place in a haunted Tokyo suburb. Lo Squaderno: Explorations in Space and Society. 2022. 62. 13-18
  • James Thurgill. Literary Geography and The Spatial Hinge. Literary Geographies. 2021. 7. 2. 152-156
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MISC (5):
  • James Thurgill. Alfred Watkins: Centenary of the Discovery. British Society of Dowsers: Local Dowsing Group Newsletter. 2021. 60
  • James Thurgill. Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space by Les Roberts. Environment, Space, Place. 2019. 11. 2. 156-60
  • James Thurgill. Narrative Research in Practice: Stories from the Field. Emotion, Space and Society. 2017. 23. 52-53
  • James Thurgill. Mapping cultures: place, practice, performance. Journal of Cultural Geography. 2016. 33. 3. 382-384
  • James Thurgill. Immaterialising Things. Paperweight: A Newspaper of Visual and Material Culture,. 2011. 2. 1. 6
Books (9):
  • History and Theory of Common Spaces
    East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, The University of Tokyo 2024
  • Routledge Companion to Folk Horror
    2023 ISBN:9781032042831
  • A Todai Philosophical Walk with Dr. Thurgill: Towards a Geographical Interpretation of Place
    Seeds Planning 2022 ISBN:4434299255
  • Literary Journeys
    Modern Books 2021
  • Place, Space, Art
    China Academy of Arts Press 2020
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Lectures and oral presentations  (38):
  • A Literary Geography of Folklore: Place, Narrative, (Inter)Spatiality
    (Faculty Research Forum, Center for Global Education, The University of Tokyo 2024)
  • Literary Geographies of Folklore
    (Association for Cultural Studies Virtual Lecture Series 2023)
  • Folklore as Common Space
    (History and Theory of Common Spaces: The Second Symposium of the Room and Space Research Group, East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts and Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo 2023)
  • Strange Constellations: On the interspatiality of folklore
    (Guest lecture for the 3S Research Group, University of East Anglia, UK 2023)
  • Veganism, Politics, Place
    (Invited talk at Rikkyo University, Tokyo 2022)
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Education (4):
  • 2009 - 2014 Royal Holloway, University of London Geography Ph.D Cultural Geography
  • 2008 - 2009 Institute of Education, University of London Post-Compulsory Education Postgraduate Certificate of Education in Post-Compulsory Education
  • 2007 - 2008 Goldsmiths College, University of London Centre for Cultural Studies MA Cultural Studies
  • 2002 - 2005 The University of Northampton Sociology BA Media Studies
Association Membership(s) (3):
Royal Geographical Society ,  Association for Literary Urban Studies ,  Folklore Society
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