LAY SION NG

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Profile Information

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities Department of English Literature, Sophia University

Contact information: laysionngsophia.ac.jp
Researcher number: 80914960
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-0277
J-GLOBAL ID: 202501010129030044
researchmap Member ID: R000087350

External link: https://sites.google.com/view/issuesundertissues1/

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Literature - British/English-language /

Research History

Apr, 2025 - Present

Lecturer (part-time), Faculty of Humanities, Toyo University
Apr, 2025 - Present

Assistant Professor (full-time), English Literature Department, Sophia University
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025

Assistant Professor (full-time), Center of English for Global Communication (CEGLOC), University of Tsukuba
Jun, 2024 - Jul, 2024

Honorary Visiting Fellow, Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH), University of Cologne
Aug, 2022 - Oct, 2022

Visiting Research Fellow, Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University

Education

Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018

Studies in Language and Society, Graduate School of Language and Culture, The University of Osaka
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018

Osaka University's Cross-Boundary Innovation Program (CBI)
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2016

Studies in Language and Society, Graduate School of Language and Culture, The University of Osaka
Aug, 2014 - Oct, 2014

English Language Centre, Monash University E
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2014

Faculty of Human Development and Culture, Fukushima University

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2026 - Present

運営委員, 上智大学英文学科オリエンテーションデイ
Apr, 2026 - Present

上智大学「ジャパンノロジー概論」運営委員, 上智大学横断型人文学プログラム
Apr, 2025 - Present

Organizer
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025

Co-Director, Academic Writing Support Desk (AWSD), University of Tsukuba
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2023

Peer reviewer, Studies in Foreign Language Teaching (University of Tsukuba)

Papers

‘What It Means to be Jews’: Viral Metaphor and Postmemory in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America

Lay Sion NG

English Literature and Language, 62 1-19, Feb, 2026
“Silenced Bodies, Profitable Flesh: A Feminist Response to Child Sexual Exploitation through Oryx’s Reimagined Voice”

Lay Sion NG

FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts, 36(1), Oct, 2025 Peer-reviewed
Teaching ‘Indian Camp’ in the Japanese Classroom

Lay Sion NG

Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice, 13(2) 65-75, Aug, 2023 Peer-reviewed
The “Rotten” matter in A Farewell to Arms: An Ecological Gothic reading [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Lay Sion Ng

F1000Research, Nov 23, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Toward a Politics of Cure: Jake Barnes's Embracing of Otherness in The Sun Also Rises

Lay Sion Ng

The Hemingway Review, 41(2) 31-48, Mar, 2022 Peer-reviewed

Major Books and Other Publications

Hemingway Studies in Japan

edited by, Kaori Fairbank, Hideo Tsuji, Margaret Wright-Cleveland, Aaron Podriguez, Landis Grenville (Role: Joint author, (Chapter 9) Hemingway’s ‘Odor of Courage’: Bullfighting’s Olfactory Ecology and the Search for Authenticity in Death in the Afternoon)

Florida State Open Publishing, Jul, 2026 (ISBN: 9798990997608)
Hemingway and Posthumanism

edited by Ryan Hediger and Marco Norris (Role: Joint author, (Chapter 9) ‘Just smell them. Aren’t they lovely?’: Olfaction and Trans-Species Imagination in Ernest Hemingway’s Works)

Edinburg University Press, Oct, 2025 (ISBN: 9781399539616) Refereed

Presentations

Hemingway and the Environmental Humanities: Reorienting Text and Context

Lay Sion NG

The 38th Ecocriticism Studies Conference in Japan, Aug 7, 2026, 日本エコクリティシズム学会
Hemingway and Posthumanism (roundtable)

Lay Sion NG

The 21st International Hemingway Conference: Hemingway in Toronto 2026, Jul 25, 2026, The Hemingway Foundation
Hemingway, Ecology and Culture: Re-reading Hemingway in the Anthropocene

Lay Sion NG

The 21st International Hemingway Conference: Hemingway in Toronto 2026, Jul 23, 2026
Literary Texts as Language Learning Tools: Student Perspectives and Learning Outcomes

Lay Sion NG

The 12th Annual Conference of Liberlit: Core Concepts, Key Ideas—What Really Matters in Literary Studies?, Jun 14, 2026
Mottainai in the Classroom: Waste, Language, and Ecological Thinking in Japanese Higher Education

Lay Sion NG

The 13th Annual Conference of Liberlit: Humanities at the Crossroad, Jun 13, 2026
Giving Voice to Nonhuman Matter: Re-reading Hemingway through Material Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene

Lay Sion NG

The Anthropocene Symposium: Unsettling Dystopias in the Anthropocene, May 23, 2026
Olfactory Ethics in Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and Other Works

Lay Sion NG

Uncommon Senses V: Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences, May 9, 2025, Concordia University
Looking Backward to Move Forward: Reflective Insights on AWSD’s Tutor Training Course

Lay Sion NG

2024 Tsukuba Global Science Week, Sep 30, 2024, Academic Writing Support Desk (AWSD), Tsukuba University
‘Just Smell Them. Aren’t They Lovely?’: The Ecology of Smell and (Olfactory) Trans-species Imagination in Ernest Hemingway’s Works

Lay Sion NG

The 20th International Hemingway Conference: Ernest Hemingway and the Basque Country, Jul 18, 2024, The Hemingway Society
Hemingway, Ecology and Culture

Lay Sion NG

Green Hour Series, Jul 11, 2024, Environmental Humanities Center Invited
Collaborative Learning at the Academic Writing Support Desk (AWSD)

Lay Sion NG

The 5th Symposium on Academic Writing and Critical Thinking, Feb 16, 2024, Mei Writing Center, Nagoya University
Interdependence and Individualism in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.

Lay Sion NG

The 4th Literature and Cultural Studies Conference: Nautical Narratives, May 5, 2023, Ege University
Understanding Unconscious Bias: ‘Indian Camp’ in the Japanese Context

Lay Sion NG

The 48th JALT International Conference on “Learning from Students, Educating Teachers—Research and Practice, Nov 12, 2022, JALT
Coloring The Old Man and the Sea: An Ecological Posthumanist Reading

Lay Sion NG

The 19th International Hemingway Conference: Exploring Hemingway, Sheridan, Wyoming & Cooke City, Montana, Aug 17, 2022, The Hemingway Society
Towards a Politics of Cure: Jake Barnes’s Mastery of Submission in The Sun Also Rises

The 32nd Annual Conference of the Hemingway Society of Japan, Dec 18, 2021
The “Rotten” Matter in A Farewell to Arms: An Ecological Gothic Reading

Lay Sion NG

Southwest Popular/American Culture Association’s 42nd Annual Conference, Feb 23, 2021, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
Anti-Imperial Perspective in The Old Man and the Sea

Lay Sion NG

The 30th Annual Conference of the Hemingway Society of Japan, Nov 16, 2019
His eye was the most alive thing David had ever seen”: A Non-Anthropocentric Perspective on the African Story in The Garden of Eden

Lay Sion NG

The 29th Annual Conference of the Hemingway Society of Japan, Nov 18, 2018
Queer Harmonious Relationships in For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Yin-Yang Cosmological Approach

Lay Sion NG

The 18th International Hemingway Conference: Hemingway in Paris, Jul 27, 2018, The Hemingway Society
Postgender and the Biological Body in Don DeLillo’s Zero K

Lay Sion NG

The 56th Annual Conference of American Literature Society of Japan (ALSJ), Oct 14, 2017, American Literature Society of Japan
Transformation through Sports: An Interview with Russian LGBT Sport Federation

Lay Sion NG

GALE Forum in the JALT 42nd Annual International Conference: Transformation in Language Teaching, Nov 26, 2016
Embracing Otherness: Mastery of Submission in The Sun Also Rises

Lay Sion NG

The 27th Annual Conference of the Hemingway Society of Japan, Nov 20, 2016
“The farther you go back, the more beautiful and desirable the world becomes’: Environmental and Gender Utopia/Dystopia in Paul Auster’s In The Country of Last Things

Lay Sion NG

The 5th International Symposium on Literature and Environment in East Asia (ISLE-EA), Nov 6, 2016
‘Exploded and Being Swallowed’: Cannibalism in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Lay Sion NG

The 55th Annual Conference of the American Literature Society of Japan (ALSJ), Oct 1, 2016, ALSJ

Major Teaching Experience

Apr, 2025 - Present

Presentation and Discussion (Sophia University)

Professional Memberships

May, 2026 - Present

ASLE-Japan文学・環境学会
Jul, 2025 - Present

The Society of Ecocriticism Studies in Japan
Jun, 2024 - Present

日本英文学会
Oct, 2017 - Present

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
May, 2016 - Present

The Hemingway Society

Research Projects

Hemingway’s Non-Canonical Works and Sensory Ecology: A Posthumanist Reading in the Anthropocene

Apr, 2026 - Mar, 2030

Lay Sion NG
Rethinking Hemingway Literature in the Anthropocene Era: A Posthumanist Reading

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2026
The American Studies Foundation (AMSF) Conference Travel Grant

Conference Travel Grant, The American Studies Foundation (AMSF), Feb, 2024

Lay Sion NG
The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, Lewis-Raynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, Lewis-Raynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship, Mar, 2021

Lay Sion NG
Bloomsbury Open Collections 2025 (open-access grant for the monograph Hemingway, Ecology and Culture)

Bloomsbury Academic

Lay Sion NG

Academic Activities

Panel Moderator

Panel moderator, Session chair, etc.

Liberlit’s 13th Annual Conference (Nihon University), Jun 12, 2026 - Jun 13, 2026
The Anthropocene Symposium: Unsettling Dystopias in the Anthropocene

Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc., Planning/Implementing academic research

Thomas Schwarz and Lay Sion NG, May 23, 2026 - May 24, 2026

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Panel Moderator

Panel moderator, Session chair, etc.

Liberlit’s 12th Annual Conference (Nihon University), Jun 15, 2025 - Jun 16, 2025
Online Workshop "The Ultimate Complaint Letter" (University of Tsukuba x Tel Aviv University)

Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc.

Lay Sion NG (Academic Writing Support Desk (AWSD) Online Workshop, University of Tsukuba), Jun 13, 2024 - Jun 13, 2024

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Online Workshop "Learning Strategies Every Student Should Know"

Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc.

Lay Sion NG, Nov 28, 2023 - Nov 28, 2023

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Media Coverage

Research Directory List

Sensory Studies (Concordia University), Jul, 2026 Internet

Lay Sion NG, Sophia University, Japan Hemingway and the Anthropocene – Material Ecocriticism – Olfaction – Color Ecology, etc. sites.google.com/view/issuesundertissues1/
ASLE Podcast Episode 3 “Multispecies Connections”

Mar, 2026 Internet
Bloomsbury Publishing: Author Page

Bloomsbury Academic, May, 2025 Internet
Bloomsbury Open Collection 2025-2026

Apr, 2025 Internet

Lay Sion NG's monograph entitled Hemingway, Ecology and Culture: Re-reading Hemingway in the Anthropocene has been selected as part of Bloomsbury's Open Access Publication Grant 2025-2026.
Guest Speaker of "Green Hour Series" July 2024

Augsburg University, Jul, 2024 Internet

Other

Cambridge English Level 5 Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA)

Mar, 2023 - Mar, 2023
Working with Gender Diversity with Kirstie McEwan, Cambridge Institute of Clinical Sexology (CICS)

Sep, 2017 - Sep, 2017
First Class Junior High School (平二五中一普第二五五号) and High School English Teaching License (平二五高一普第三五九号)

Mar, 2013 - Apr, 2013

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