Research keywords (6)：
Comparative Literature
, Scripts
, Old English
, Multilingualism
, TESOL
, Japanese Medievalism
Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：
2023 - 2026 Language Ideologies and Spiritual Identity: Comparative Perspectives from the Vercelli Book
2021 - 2023 Transhistorical Approaches to Multilingualism and Multiliteralism in Early English
Papers (11)：
Kana OYABU, Kanehiro NISHIMURA, Mami KANNO, Jacob RUNNER, Michiko YAGUCHI. On the Curriculum Reform of Year 1 Compulsory English at Kanazawa University -Focusing on EAP Course Curriculum-. Forum of Language Instructors. 2024. 18. 18. 5-35
Jacob Wayne Runner. "To Shed Light and Not to Master": Paratext and Perspective in Robert Hunter's The Giant's Harp. Proceedings of the Grateful Dead Studies Association. 2023. 2. 96-105
Jacob W. Runner. Emblematic Language: A Multilingual Perspective on Wulfstan’s English and Latin Baptismal Homilies. Neophilologus. 2023. 107. 3
Brown, D, Yaguchi, M, Oyabu, K, Murray, L, Kanno, M, Morikawa, T, Runner, J. Exploring the Academic English Needs of Students at a Japanese University. Forum of Language Instructors. 2023. 17. 17. 39-56
Jacob Wayne Runner. Eucatastrophe and Satori: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium as Interreligious Myth. Studies of Language and Culture. 2023. 27. 85-104
Svend Erik Larsen. Between Truth and Trust: Forgiveness as a Literary and Cultural Challenge. 2024
Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jorgensen, Margaret R. Higonnet. Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism in Comparative Perspectives Vol. II (Pathways Through Realism). 2022
Göttsche, Dirk, Rosa Mucigna, Robert Weninger. Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism in Comparative Perspectives Vol. I (Mapping Realism). 2021
Göttsche, Dirk. Memory and Postcolonial Studies : Synergies and New Directions. 2019
Jacob Runner. Review of Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature, R. Stephenson and E. V. Thornbury (eds.). Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland Newsletter 34. 2017
Lectures and oral presentations (15)：
Voicing and Embodying Faith: Comparative Language and Textual Perspectives from the Old English Andreas
(The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies West Branch 40th Annual Meeting (Hiroshima Shudo University) 2024)
Lessons from three studies on learners’ challenges in EMI courses at a Japanese University
(EMI Symposium 2023: Fostering Collaboration (University of Oxford) 2023)
Intertwined Language and Spiritual Perspectives from the Vercelli Book: A Pilot Comparative Assessment
(Leeds International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds) 2023)
Charting an Ideological Topography: A Comparison of Linguistic and Spiritual Perspectives Performed across the Vercelli Book
(International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England 21st Biennial Conference (University of Manchester) 2023)
Investigating Students’ Academic English Needs at a Japanese University
(Towards Transcultural Pedagogy: Dynamics in Global EAP (University of St Andrews) 2023)
2016 - 2020 University of Nottingham Ph.D., Comparative Literature
2015 - 2016 University of St Andrews M.Litt., Mediaeval English
2008 - 2012 University of Vermont B.A., English
2010 - 2011 Aoyama Gakuin University School of Cultural and Creative Studies
Professional career (1)：
Ph.D. (University of Nottingham)
Work history (2)：
2023/04 - 現在 Kanazawa University Lecturer
2021/04 - 2023/03 Kanazawa University Assistant Professor (Specially Appointed)
Awards (1)：
2017 - University of Nottingham Cultures, Languages and Area Studies Studentship Award
Association Membership(s) (4)：
Grateful Dead Studies Association
, The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies
, Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland
, International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England
