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Update date: Oct. 31, 2024
Onuma Yu
オオヌマ ユフ | Onuma Yu
Affiliation and department:
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)
- 2010 - 2015 A Comparative Study of Mirabilia in the Middle East and Europe
- 2010 - 2011 The "Marvel" as a Method of Description and Its Relationship to the Reception of Classical Literature in Late-Medieval English Literature
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Papers (23):
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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):
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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
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Satoko Tokunaga, Yu Onuma. Editors' introduction on <i>Narrative and Mobility in Medieval Europe<i>. Mita Hyoron. 2023. 1275. 88
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Yu Onuma. Introduction. Narrative and Mobility in Medieval Europe. 2022. v-viii
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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
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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):
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<i>Narrative and Mobility in Medieval Europe</i>
Chisen Shokan 2022 ISBN:9784862853776
Lectures and oral presentations (30):
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Travelling Marvels: Seeing Classical Reception through the Lens of Medieval Wonders
(Medieval Research Seminar 2024)
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Examining the Role of the Narrator in the Multilingual Textual Tradition of <i>Mandeville’s Travels</i>
(International Medieval Congress 2024)
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Mobility and Identity in Medieval European Literature
(Doshisha University-EHESS Meeting & Seminar 2023)
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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)
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The Role of Prester John in <i>Mandeville’s Travels <i>
(Mandeville 700 2022)
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Works (3):
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Brief Notice: James G. Clark, Frank T. Coulson & Kathryn L. McKinley (eds), <i>Ovid in the Middle Ages</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
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Joint translation of <i>The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales</i>, ed. by Chris Baldick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
2012 -
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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
- 2012 - 2015 The West Branch of Japan Society for Medieval English Studies Member of executive committee
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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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