MUNIA HWEIDI

(HWEIDI MUNIA)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Researcher, Faculty of Global Studies Department of Global Studies, Sophia University

Researcher number: 60979748
J-GLOBAL ID: 202301003363492441
researchmap Member ID: R000050000

Research Interests

literature, environmental literature, modern literature, world literature, Japanese literature, Arabic literature

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Literature - Japanese /

Research History

Apr, 2023 - Present

Post Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University
Apr, 2023 - Present

Lecturer, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Sep, 2023 - Mar, 2025

Lecturer, East Asian Studies, Musashi University
Oct, 2021 - Aug, 2022

Research Assistant, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Oct, 2021 - Jul, 2022

Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University

Committee Memberships

Mar, 2023 - Present

Middle East Studies Association, Middle East Studies Association
Mar, 2023 - Present

Association of Asian Studies, Association of Asian Studies

Awards

Jun, 2025

Good Practice as selected by Students (GP), Sophia University

Papers

“Reading Beyond Translation” - Reevaluation of the Modernization of Non-Western Societies: The Case of Japan(Asian) and the Arab Model Symposium Proceedings

2025 Peer-reviewed
Space, Makan, Kūkan Phenomenology of Space through Etymology

Oct, 2023 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Reinterpretation and Rediscovery of nature and tradition in Ishimure Michiko’s Lake of Heaven

AGLOS, Apr, 2023 Peer-reviewed
“Voices of the Desert and the Sea”, Incubation: The Osaka Journal of Global Japanese Studies at Osaka University

2022 Peer-reviewed

Books and Other Publications

Design history of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: Emblem Selection and Participatory Design

(Role: Joint translator) (Original Author(s): Array)
Through the Water Mirror of Amazoko

(Role: Contributor)

Presentations

Beyond the Oculus of Translation in Arabic and Japanese Literature

Association of Asian Studies, Mar 14, 2025
Reading Beyond Translation

Reevaluation of the Modernization of Non-Western Societies: The Case of Japan(Asian) and the Arab Model – Symposium hosted by Cairo University and co-hosted by the Consortium for Global Japanese Studies, Nov 16, 2024
The more-than-human world in Arabic and Japanese literature

Middle East Studies Association Conference, Nov 14, 2024
Centering Place: A dialogue between Ishimure Michiko’s Sea and Abdel Rahman Munif’s Desert

Association of Asian Studies in Asia, Nov 7, 2024
Through the Water Mirror of Amazoko

Sophia Research Weeks, Nov 7, 2023 Invited
Space, Makan, Kūkan Phenomenology of Space through Etymology

critic|all Conference, Oct 10, 2023
“Literary Environmental Testimonies: An East/East conversation on the works of Ishimure Michiko and Abdel Rahman Munif on man-made environmental crises”

Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series, Jun 29, 2022 Invited
“A world of ‘re’ - Reinterpretation, Rediscovery, and Reappreciation of nature and tradition in Ishimure Michiko’s Lake of Heaven”

Symposium and Workshop Series 2021-2022 – Graduate School of Global Studies, Sophia University, Dec 4, 2021
Through the Water Mirror of Amazoko in Ishimure Michiko’s Lake of Heaven

Association for Asian Studies Conference, Mar 26, 2021
“Ishimure Michiko (1927 – 2018) – A Lyrical History of a Multi-layered Reality.”

Symposium and Workshop Series 2019-20 – Graduate School of Global Studies, Sophia University, Jan 11, 2020

Teaching Experience

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