Researcher List LAY SION NG LAY SION NG (ン レイション) Please select the form format to download from below 「Education and research environment」format 「No. 4, the Ministry of Education document style ①Outline for Vitae」format 「No. 4, the Ministry of Education document style ②Education and research environment」format Profile Information AffiliationAssistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities Department of English Literature, Sophia UniversityContact informationlaysionngsophia.ac.jpResearcher number80914960ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-0277J-GLOBAL ID202501010129030044researchmap Member IDR000087350 Research Interests 1 Hemingway studies, American Literature, Literature and the Environment Research Areas 1 Humanities & social sciences / Literature - British/English-languag / Research History 8 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 More Education 5 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 2 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 12 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, 2022 Peer-reviewed ‘Return Things to Nature’s Norms’: A Material Feminist Reading of the Surrogate Bodies in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies, 1(2) 3-20, Dec, 2021 Transhumanism and the Biological Body in Don DeLillo’s Zero K: A Material Feminist Perspective Lay Sion Ng ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Oct 5, 2020 Peer-reviewed More Presentations 18 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 More Major Teaching Experience 8 Apr, 2025 - Present Presentation and Discussion (Sophia University) More Professional Memberships 5 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 Apr, 2016 - Present 日本アメリカ文学会 Apr, 2016 - Present 日本ヘミングウェイ協会 Research Projects 1 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 Academic Activities 4 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 Attachment 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 Attachment ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Creative Writing Joint Workshop (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), Jan 23, 2023 - Jan 23, 2023 Attachment Online Workshop "Writing to Learn: The Benefits of Free-Writing Practice" Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc. Lay Sion NG (Academic Writing Support Desk (AWSD) Online Workshop, University of Tsukuba), Jul 19, 2022 - Jul 19, 2022 Attachment Media Coverage 5 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 Introduction: Research Fellow at MESH, University of Cologne Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH), University of Cologne, Jul, 2024 Internet Hemingway Society of Japan: Membership Publication News 2023 Hemingway Society of Japan, Oct, 2023 Internet Other 3 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
LAY SION NG (ン レイション) Please select the form format to download from below 「Education and research environment」format 「No. 4, the Ministry of Education document style ①Outline for Vitae」format 「No. 4, the Ministry of Education document style ②Education and research environment」format Profile Information AffiliationAssistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities Department of English Literature, Sophia UniversityContact informationlaysionngsophia.ac.jpResearcher number80914960ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-0277J-GLOBAL ID202501010129030044researchmap Member IDR000087350 Research Interests 1 Hemingway studies, American Literature, Literature and the Environment Research Areas 1 Humanities & social sciences / Literature - British/English-languag / Research History 8 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 More Education 5 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 2 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 12 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, 2022 Peer-reviewed ‘Return Things to Nature’s Norms’: A Material Feminist Reading of the Surrogate Bodies in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies, 1(2) 3-20, Dec, 2021 Transhumanism and the Biological Body in Don DeLillo’s Zero K: A Material Feminist Perspective Lay Sion Ng ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Oct 5, 2020 Peer-reviewed More Presentations 18 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 More Major Teaching Experience 8 Apr, 2025 - Present Presentation and Discussion (Sophia University) More Professional Memberships 5 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 Apr, 2016 - Present 日本アメリカ文学会 Apr, 2016 - Present 日本ヘミングウェイ協会 Research Projects 1 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 Academic Activities 4 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 Attachment 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 Attachment ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Creative Writing Joint Workshop (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), Jan 23, 2023 - Jan 23, 2023 Attachment Online Workshop "Writing to Learn: The Benefits of Free-Writing Practice" Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc. Lay Sion NG (Academic Writing Support Desk (AWSD) Online Workshop, University of Tsukuba), Jul 19, 2022 - Jul 19, 2022 Attachment Media Coverage 5 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 Introduction: Research Fellow at MESH, University of Cologne Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH), University of Cologne, Jul, 2024 Internet Hemingway Society of Japan: Membership Publication News 2023 Hemingway Society of Japan, Oct, 2023 Internet Other 3 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