Igawa Masago

イガワマサゴ | Igawa Masago

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Homepage URL (1)： http://kaken.nii.ac.jp/d/r/30104730.ja.html

Research field (1)： Literature - British/English-languag

Research keywords (8)： American Literature , Mark Twain , _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ , Turn-of-the-century, 1890-1910 , Humor , 多文化主義 , Race , Colonialism

Research theme for competitive and other funds (6)：

2020 - 2023 Mark Twain's Criticism in His Last Years: Using the Weapon of Laughter and Beyond
2017 - 2020 Mark Twain's Humor in His Last Years: Using the Weapon of Laughter
2013 - 2016 Mark Twain's Last Years: The Uncensored Autobiography Published in 2010.
2010 - 2012 Mark Twain at the Turn of the Century,1890-1910: On His Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism
2006 - 2008 Racial Controversy in the United States over Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Cultural Wars

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Papers (20)：

Masago Igawa. "Mark Twain and Literary Copyright: A Reading of His _Autobiography_". _Tohoku Studies in American Literature_. 2019. 42. 30-51
IGAWA Masago. _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_ and 'Revolutionary Fervor' of Mark Twain. AL. Editorial Board, editor. _American Literature and Revolutions_. 2016. 225-262
IGAWA Masago. "Mark Twains' Comments on Charles Dickens". _Journal of Mark Twain Studies_. 2015. 14. 19-28
IGAWA Masago. "Mark Twain’s 'Knights of the Tiller': The American Labor Movement of the 1880s in _Life on the Mississippi_". _Mark Twain Studies_. 2014. 4. 20-39
Masago Igawa. "Mark Twain's Later Years: Anti-imperialistic Rhetoric in _Following the Equator_". _Proceedings: The 85th General Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan_. 2013. 17-18

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MISC (22)：

IGAWA Masago. _Autobiography of Mark Twain: Chapters from the North American Review_ Translated by Katsumi Satouchi. _Journal of Mark Twain Studies_. 2021. 20
Masago Igawa. David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991; Revised ed., Verso, 1999). _NEW PERSPECTIVE_. 2021. 51. 1 & 2. 87-89
IGAWA Masago. R. Kent Rasmussen, ed., _Critical Insights: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_( Salem Press / Grey House Publishing, 2017). _Journal of Mark Twain Studies_. 2018. 17. 67-69
IGAWA Masago. "Mark Twain's Tall Tale about a Shark: Cecil Rhodes Gets a Big Shark That Swims Faster Than a Steamer". 2016. 15. 75-77
Masago Igawa. "A Tidbit: Mark Twain Studies". _NEW PERSPECTIVE_. 2015. 45. 2. 2-2

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Books (18)：

AL. Editorial Board, editor. _American Literature and Revolutions_
Eihosha 2016 ISBN:9784269740372
_New Association for English and American Literature, editor. _Continuing to Read English and American Literature: History, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity_
Kaibunsha 2012
AL. Editorial Board, editor. _Literature/Labor/America_
Nan'undo Phoenix 2010
Shunnsuke Kamei, editorial supervisor. _A Literary and Cultural Companion to Mark Twain_
Sairyusha 2010 ISBN:9784779115752
Stephen Matterson, _American Literature: The Essential Glossary_
Shohakusha 2010 ISBN:9784775401422

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Lectures and oral presentations (20)：

"Mark Twain and the Civil War"
(2015)
Symposium "Charles Dickens and Mark Twain"; Keynote Speech (1) "Comments on Dickens by Mark Twain"
(2014)
Panel: "Mark Twain: The View from Japan" (Moderator: Victor Fischer)
(The 48th Western Literature Association Conference, Berkeley, California 2013)
“Mark Twain and ‘the knights of the tiller’: The Influence of the American Labor Movement of the 1880’s”
(The Seventh International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies 2013)
Invited Presentation "Mark Twain's Humor Rhetoric: Reading Anti-imperialism in _Following the Equator_"
(The 85th General Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan 2013)

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Works (8)：

_Journal of Mark Twain Studies_, No.6
The Japan Mark Twain Society, Naoto Sugiyama, Masago Igawa et al. 2007 -
_Mark Twain Studies,_ No2, Special Feature I: New Perspectives on "The War-Prayer" An International Forum; Special Feature II: Twain and Asia
The Japan Mark Twain Society, Takayuki Tatsumi, Mary A. Knighton et al. 2006 -
_Journal of Mark Twain Studies_, No.5
The Japan Mark Twain Society, Naoto Sugiyama, Masago Igawa, akayuki Tasumi, Katsumi Satouchi, Hisayo Ohgushi, Mary K. Knighton 2006 -
_Journal of Mark Twain Studies_, No.4
The Japan Mark Twain Society, Naoto Sugiyama et al. 2005 -
_Mark Twain Studies,_ No.1, Special Feature: "Mark Twain, Our Contemporary"
The Japan Mark Twain Society, Tkayuki Tatsumi, Mary A. Knighton et al. 2004 -

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Education (1)：

1970 - 1972 Nara Women's University

Professional career (1)：

Master of Arts (Nara Women's University)

Work history (3)：

2000/04 - 2012/03 Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University Professor
1986/04 - 2000/03 Tokyo University of Science Faculty of Engineering Liberal Arts Assistant Professor
1976/04 - 1986/03 Konan University Faculty of Letters Lecturer, Assistant Professor

Committee career (5)：

2014/08 - 2017/08 New Association for English and American Literature President
2012/04 - 2015/03 The Japan Mark Twain Society President
2006/04 - 2008/03 日本アメリカ文学会代議員、東北支部副支部長
2003 - 2005 Elmira 2005: The Fifth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies Conference Planning Committee
1975 - 1977 日本科学者会議婦人研究者問題委員会委員長

Awards (1)：

2002/07 - The Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies, New York. Research Fellow-in-Residence

Association Membership(s) (11)：

The Tohoku English Literary Society , The Japan Mark Twain Society , Society of World Literature Japan , The Japanese Association for American Studies , The English Literary Society of Japan , New Association for English and American Literature , The American Literature Society of Japan , 女性研究者の会・京都 , Tohoku Association for American Studies , The Mark Twain Circle of America , 奈良女子大学英語英米文学会

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