Faculty of Humanities
Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Department of English Literature, Sophia University
- Degree
- Psychology B.Sc.Hons.(Birmingham University)心理学学士(ﾊﾞｰﾐﾝｶﾞﾑ大学)Applied English Linguistics Ph.D.(Birmingham University)応用英語学博士(ﾊﾞｰﾐﾝｶﾞﾑ大学)
- Researcher number
- 20317499
- J-GLOBAL ID
- 200901037836674889
- researchmap Member ID
- 1000212249
Have studied in a variety of fields including psycholinguistics, memory, text and discourse analysis. Presently concentrating on modern children's literature with an emphasis on stylistics, translation, picturebooks. Current specific interests are poetry in children's literature and translation of children's literature into minority languages.
My current research focusses on two main areas. First, I am studying poetry in children's literature, focussing on the various types of poetry in children's literature and on the interactions of different media in the poetic forms. Second, I have a long term project looking at translation of children's literature into minority languages. I am studying this through the lens of translation studies theory, child rights, and language learning.
(Subject of research)
Poetry in Children's Literature
Translation of Children's Literature into Minority Languages
English Children's Literature
Modern English Literature and Urban Fantasy
Audience and implied reader in Children's Literature
Stylistics and Narrative in Children's Literature
Translation of Children's Literature
The development of dragons in English Literature
Picturebook theory and translation
Hawaiian Children's Books
Children's Literature and Language Learning
(Proposed theme of joint or funded research)
Translation of Children's Literature into Minority Languages
Research Interests
14Research Areas
6Papers
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Children's Literature in Education, Feb 12, 2022 Lead author
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New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 26(1-2) 25-37, Jul 27, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
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The Translator, 27(2) 238-240, Apr 3, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
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Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 40(1) 181-185, 2019 Invited
Books and Other Publications
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NHK, Jun, 2010 (ISBN: 9784140395226)A collected book of essays about Japan and Britain, with Japanese translations.
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Japan Broadcast Publishing Co., Ltd., Feb 10, 2007 (ISBN: 9784140350720)
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ベレ出版, Jan, 2005 (ISBN: 4860640772)
Presentations
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Challenging Reading: English-Language Education with Children and Teenagers., 2016, University of Münster, Germany. InvitedA discussion of the learning likelihood's for children learning language through extended reading.
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IBBY Conference, 2016, IBBYLooking at the role of minority translations for a translation theory perspective.
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Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education Seminars, 2014, Cambridge University, Faculty of Education. InvitedA discussion of the stylistic choices used by authors of children's literature to encourage greater learning of new vocabulary.
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20th Biennial Congress for the International Research Society for Children Literature, Jul 7, 2011, International Research Society for Children Literature (IRSCL)A paper looking at the social class of children supposed to be 'Street Arabs' or street children, in modern Neo-Victorian stories based on the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Professional Memberships
2Research Projects
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科学研究費助成事業, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023