Research theme for competitive and other funds (10):
2023 - 2028 Ageing, Time and the Future in Contemporary Fiction
2018 - 2023 Ageing and Illness in British and Japanese Children's Picturebooks 1950-2000: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
2017 - 2023 Ageing, Dementia, Care in Contemporary Fiction
2017 - 2022 Ageing, Dementia, Care in Contemporary Fiction
2018 - 2021 Ageing and Illness in British and Japanese Children's Picturebooks 1950-2000: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
2013 - 2017 Meanings and Experiences of Ageing and Subjectivity in Contemporary British Fiction and Culture
2010 - 2013 Ageing in Post-war and Contemporary British Literature
2010 - 2011 Literature, Language and Identity from Local and Global Perspectives
2009 - 2010 Geography, Space and Identity in Narratives of Travels and Migrations
2009 - 2009 Japanese Literature and World Literature
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Papers (10):
Katsura Sako, Sarah Falcus. 'Futurity, the life course and aging in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun'. Frontiers of Narrative Studies. 2023. 9. 1. 121-136
Sako K, Oró-Piqueras M. Successful ageing and the spectre of the fourth age in the Netflix TV series Grace and Frankie. Journal of Aging Studies. 2023. 65
Caldwell E.F, Falcus S, Sako K. Depicting Dementia: Representations of Cognitive Health and Illness in Ten Picturebooks for Children. Children's Literature in Education. 2020
Katsura Sako. Dementia and Detection in Elizabeth Is Missing and Turn of Mind. CONTEMPORARY WOMENS WRITING. 2016. 10. 3. 315-333
Katsura Sako, Sarah Falcus. dementia, care and time in post-war Japan: The Twilight Years, Memories of Tomorrow and Pecoross' Mother and Her Days. FEMINIST REVIEW. 2015. 111. 111. 88-108
Katsura Sako. Review of Novels in English and Ageing. The Book Review Press. 2020. 3458. 5-5
Katsura Sako. Review of Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturing in Contemporary Japan by Jason Danely. Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdiscplinary Journal. 2020. 5
Books (14):
'Contemporary Narratives of Dementia in Japan.' In Paul Crawford and Paul Kadetz (eds), <i>The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Health Humanities</i>
Springer 2023
‘Ageing and Care in Contemporary Women’s Writing: Doris Lessing’s <i>The Diary of a Good Neighbour</i> and Margaret Drabble’s <i>The Pure Gold Baby</i>’ In Gina Wisker, Leanne Bibby and Heidi Yeandle (eds), <i>Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women's Writing</i>
Palgrave 2023
'Dementia in Japanese Cinema: Family and Rural Nostalgia.' In Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung and Raquel Medina (eds), <i>Bloomsbury Handbook of Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film </i>
Bloomsbury 2023
"A Few Good Old Men: Revising Ageing Masculinities in <i>Last Tango in Halifax</i>." In Sara Martín and M. Isabel Santaulària (eds), <i>Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men</i>
Palgrave Macmillan Cham 2023 ISBN:9783031221439
Dementia in Japanese cinema: The family and rural nostalgia
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film 2023 ISBN:9781350204331
“Gardens, Age and Generation in Children’s Picturebooks”
(Within and Without: Representations of Ageing: International Symposium III: Special Issue 2024)
Ageing, Care and Death in Children’s Picturebooks from Japan and the UK
(Age and Care Graz 2023: Aging in a Caring Society? Theories in Conversation 2023)
“The Family, Generations and the Posthuman Future in '<i>Years and Years</i>'"
("Recent Approaches to the Posthuman: Cultural Reflections on the (Post-)Human Condition: 18th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English" 2023)
“Intergenerationality, Age, and Environment in Children’s Picturebooks”
(European Network in Aging Studies and North American Network in Aging Studies Joint Conference 2022)
"Children, care and the posthuman future in Klara and the Sun"
(16th Conference of European Society for the Study of English 2022)