Curriculum Vitaes
Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
- Degree
- A.B.(Bowdoin College)M.A.(Princeton University)Ph.D(2003, Princeton University)
- Contact information
- s-kono
sophia.ac.jp - Researcher number
- 60439338
- J-GLOBAL ID
- 200901076082697378
- researchmap Member ID
- 5000105676
At the Faculty of Liberal Arts, I am offering courses on comparative literature and Western literature. My recent research topics include translation and circulation of Japanese literature, Japanese literature as world literature, and plurilingualism in modern Japanese literature.
Research Interests
3Research Areas
1Major Research History
10Education
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Sep, 1995 - Nov, 2003
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Sep, 1991 - May, 1995
Committee Memberships
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Apr, 2022 - Present
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Apr, 2021 - Present
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Aug, 2018 - Jul, 2020
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Apr, 2009 - Mar, 2011
Major Papers
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Modern Japanese Literary Studies (Nihon Kindai Bungaku), (102) 71-86, May 15, 2020 Peer-reviewedThis paper examines Mizumura Minae's Shishōsetsu from Left to Right (1995) in terms of plurilingualism, which assumes that both the writer and the reader have proficiency in multiple languages. Specifically,I consider the question of why Minae, the protagonist, decided to write in Japanese rather than English. I approach this issue by imagining the books Minae could have written in English but chose not to. I discuss the question of how and why she made this decision not only in terms of Minae's education in American schools, but also with reference to several relevant contexts, such as the fall of the "West" and the rise of multiculturalism in American academia, Japanese studies in the United States, narrative temporality in the novel, and the self-referential use of the "shishōsetsu" (I-novel) genre. Mizumura's novel shows that the question of language choice in plurilingual conditions raises a series of fundamental questions about linguistic expression in general.
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Journal of Japanese Studies, 32(2) 311-340, Jul 1, 2006
Misc.
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The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age by Hoyt Long (review)Monumenta Nipponica, 80(1) 163-167, 2025 InvitedLead author
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Journal of Waseda International House of Literature, 2 59-62, Mar 14, 2024 InvitedLead author
Major Books and Other Publications
20Presentations
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The Twenty-Sixth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) at Sophia University, Jul 6, 2024
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The 61st Japan Comparative Literature Association Tokyo Regional Meeting, Oct 28, 2023
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EAJS2023, the 17th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Aug 20, 2023
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The 276th Nichibunken Thursday Seminar, Jul 20, 2023 Invited
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Workshop "Mori Ōgai and the Diversity of Knowledge", Mar 24, 2023 Invited
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An invited lecture at University College Cork, Mar 21, 2023 Invited
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Academic Memorial Meeting of Humboldt-University in Berlin commemorating Mori Rintarō (Ōgai), Jul 14, 2022 Invited
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An invited talk at Freie Universität Berlin, Jan 27, 2020 Invited
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Urban Narratives in Modern Japan: Space, Technology and Material Culture, Nov 6, 2018, "L'Orientale" University of Naples Invited
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The Twenty-Second Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Jun 30, 2018, International Christian University
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国際日本文化研究センター共同研究「投企する古典性―視覚／大衆／現代」共同研究会, Jan 21, 2018, 国際日本文化研究センター共同研究「投企する古典性―視覚／大衆／現代」
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AAS-in-Asia in Seoul, Jun 25, 2017, The Japan Foundation Invited
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The Twentieth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Jul 3, 2016, International Christian University
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Workshop on Language Competence and Cultural Diversity Cultivation, Jan 22, 2016 Invited
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77th meeting of the Japan Comparative Literature Association, Jun 14, 2015
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Symposium "The current state and the prospect of the studies of Japanese-language literature in the world", May 16, 2015 Invited
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Second Conference, World Literature Cross-Lingual Network, Mar 20, 2015
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ICC Workshop “Translation and Shared Literary Imagination in the Early Twentieth Century”, Mar 7, 2015
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Annual Meeting of Japanese Association for Contents History Studies, Nov 23, 2014
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Aug 26, 2014, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) Invited
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Aug 4, 2014, Japan Foundation Invited
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ICC Workshop “Trajectories of ‘Japanese’ Texts in the Early Twentieth Century”, Mar 8, 2014
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51th meeting of the Japan Comparative Literature Association, Tokyo Chapter, Oct 20, 2013
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Feb 5, 2013, Goethe University
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Workshop “Self-Narration in Japanese Studies: Literature and History”, Dec 7, 2012
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Japan Forum, May 28, 2012 Invited
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A Kyara and a Dreamer: Murakami's Visions of the Fantastic and World Literature as a Mode of ReadingThe 11th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel 2012, May 22, 2012
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The Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Apr 2, 2011, American Comparative Literature Association
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Symposium of Sophia University Society of Japanese Literature, Dec 13, 2009, Sophia University Society of Japanese Literature
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Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting 2009, Mar 29, 2009, Association for Asian Studies
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上智大学国文学会平成20年度冬季大会, Jan 24, 2009, 上智大学国文学会森鷗外の小説『百物語』（明治四十四年）の冒頭において、語り手が「此話でも万一ヨオロツパのどの国かの語に翻訳せられて、世界の文学の仲間入をするやうな事があつた時、余所の国の読者に分からないだらうか」と言って「百物語」の習俗を説明するくだりがある。鷗外がこの小説を著す四年前の明治四十年、英訳『舞姫』が西本波太の彩雲閣から出版され、翌年には二葉亭四迷訳のロシア語訳『舞姫』が横浜で創刊されたロシア語誌に掲載されるなど、明治末期の時点で、鷗外は自身のような近代日本文学の作家の作品がヨーロッパ語に翻訳される新しい現実を目の当たりにしていた。本発表では、「余所の国の読者」に読まれる可能性に言及するということの方法的な意義を考察した。
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Association for Japanese Literary Studies Annual Meeting 2007, Nov 3, 2007
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June Regular Meeting of Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies, Jun 24, 2006, Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies (AMJLS)
Professional Memberships
5Research Projects
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Kakenhi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023
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Kakenhi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, 2011 - 2014
Social Activities
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Nov, 2014 - Nov, 2014