Department of Liberal Arts

Yiu Angela

  (YIU ANGELA)

Profile Information

Affiliation
Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
(Concurrent)Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts
Degree
B.A.(University of Cornell)
M.A.(University of Yale)
Ph.D.(University of Yale)

Contact information
a-yiusophia.ac.jp
Researcher number
90255208
J-GLOBAL ID
200901020234232443
researchmap Member ID
5000064292

My research interest is in Modern Japanese Fiction, with an emphasis on Meiji and Taisho fiction. The focus of my research until 1999 was the works of Natsume Soseki. Between 1999-2002 I worked on women writers (Mori Mari, Koganei Kimiko) and the Mori Ogai family. Currently, I am working on utopianism, modernism, postwar literature, and urban space in Japanese literature. I also work on the Sino-Japanese issues in modern literature.

I teach the following 5 undergraduate courses: Lit 231 Introduction to Japanese Literature,Lit 435 Modern Japanese Fiction 1, Lit 436 Modern Japanese Fiction 2, and two courses titled Topics in Japanese Literature. My research interest is in Modern Japanese Literature. I also teach a graduate course in the Graduate School of Global Studies (JS 511 Interpretations of Modernity. Currently I research on Taisho utopianism, modernism, postwar literature, and urban space in modern Japanese literature.

(Subject of research)
Urban Space in Literature
A global perspective on Taisho utopianism: its origin, development, and its relevance today
Three-Dimensional Reading: Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Literature
Sino-Japanese issues in modern literature

(Proposed theme of joint or funded research)
Urban Space in Japanese Literature
Japanese Modernist Literature, postwar literature, literature and colonialism
Sino-Japanese issues in modern literature


Papers

 22

Misc.

 3

Books and Other Publications

 16

Presentations

 43

Research Projects

 2

Other

 2