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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

Research Interests

1

Hemingway studies, American Literature, Literature and the Environment

Research Areas

1

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

Research History

6

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
Nov, 2017 - Dec, 2017

Intern at Gender Forum Journal, English Department, University of Cologne

Education

3

Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018

Studies in Language and Society, Graduate School of Language and Culture, The University of Osaka
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2016

Studies in Language and Society, Graduate School of Language and Culture, The University of Osaka
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2014

Faculty of Human Development and Culture, Fukushima University

Papers

9

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
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
The Elephant’s Eye and the Maji-Maji War: A Non-Anthropocentric Reading of David’s African Story in The Garden of Eden

Lay Sion Ng

The Hemingway Review, 39(2) 40-51, 2020 Peer-reviewed

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

Major Teaching Experience

5

Apr, 2025 - Present

Presentation and Discussion

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

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

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