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Suwa Akira

スワ アキラ | Suwa Akira
Affiliation and department:
Research field  (1): Literature - British/English-languag
Research keywords  (4): Adaptation Studies ,  Queer Studies ,  Victorian Literature ,  Neo-Victorianism
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (1):
  • 2021 - 2024 Gender, Sexuality, and Heterotopia in Neo-Victorian Literature
Papers (8):
  • 諏訪暁. Metatextual Space and the Potential for Utopia in Affinity. コミュニカーレ. 2023. 12. 21-40
  • Marie-Luise Kohlke, Elizabeth Ho, Akira Suwa. Heterotopic and Neo-Victorian Affinities: Introducing the Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias. Humanities. 2022. 11. 8. 1-10
  • Akira Suwa. Heterotopic Potential of Darkness: Exploration and Experimentation of Queer Space in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian Trilogy. Humanities. 2021. 11. 5. 1-11
  • 諏訪暁. Imagining Monstrosity: Water and the Gothic in Don’t Look Now. 外国語外国文化研究. 2020. 30. 22-32
  • Akira Suwa. What Makes It Neo-Victorian?: The Handmaiden and the Double Internalisation of Cultural Colonisation. Victoriographies: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790-1914. 2019. 9. 3. 280-297
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MISC (3):
  • Akira Suwa. Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane Cumming (Review). British Association of Victorian Studies Newsletter. 2021. 21. 2. 3
  • Akira Suwa. Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics (Review). Contemporary Women's Writing. 2018. 12. 3. 387-389
  • Akira Suwa. Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c. 1850 to the Present (Review). British Association of Victorian Studies Newsletter. 2017. 17. 3. 31-32
Lectures and oral presentations  (11):
  • Subverting the Heteropatriarchal Voice in Lyndsay Turner’s Tipping the Velvet (2015)
    (Women Staging and Re-staging the Nineteenth Century (II) 2023)
  • Liminal Identities and Heterotopic Spaces in Sarah Moss’s Signs for Lost Children
    (British Association for Victorian Studies Annual Conference 2023)
  • “We are always strangers in a strange land”: Neo-Victorian Liminality in Sarah Moss's Signs for Lost Children
    (日本ヴィクトリア朝文化研究学会第22回全国大会 2022)
  • Romanticising the Victorian Past for the Japanese Reader in Moriarty the Patriot
    (British Association for Victorian Studies Annual Conference 2022)
  • Traces of Victorian Britain in Northeast Asia: Cross-Cultural Neo-Victorianism in Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden
    ((Neo-)Victorian ‘Orientations’ in the Twenty-First Century 2019)
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Education (3):
  • 2014 - 2019 Cardiff University School of English, Communication and Philosophy
  • 2011 - 2013 University of York Department of English and Related Literature
  • 2007 - 2011 Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of English Language and Studies
Professional career (3):
  • Ph.D. (English Literature) (Cardiff University)
  • MA (Film and Literature) (University of York)
  • 学士(外国研究) (上智大学)
Work history (3):
  • 2022/04 - 現在 Doshisha University Faculty of Global Communications
  • 2020/04 - 2022/03 Ritsumeikan University Center for Language Education and Research
  • 2019/04 - 2020/03 Kokushikan University Faculty of Political Science and Economics
Association Membership(s) (4):
ディケンズ・ファロウシップ日本支部 ,  日本ヴィクトリア朝文化研究学会 ,  British Association for Victorian Studies ,  日本英文学会
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