Department of English Literature, Faculty of Humanities
Job title
Professor
Degree
Ph.D.(Boston University Graduate School, American and New England Studies ), M.A.(University of Massachusetts, Amherst), M.A. in Church History(Wheaton College Graduate School), Bachelor of Arts (English Literature)(Doshisha University)
Research funding number
80181642
J-Global ID
200901060152698268
Profile
1998-present Sophia University Institute of American and Canadian Studies, Fellow 2004-2005 Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University, Visiting scholar 2011-2012 History of American Civilization, Harvard University, Visiting scholar 2013-Present Jonathan Edwards Center Japan, International Christian University, Board member 2018-2019 Department of History, Harvard University, Visiting scholar Early American Literature and Intellectual History (17th - 19th century) are my major study fields. I teach 19th century American Literature (Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson, Sedgwick and Henry James) in undergraduate classes and read primary texts from the Early American Intellectual and Religious History in graduate-school courses. (Subject of research) Study of Nathaniel Hawthorne and American Popular Religion Occupied Japan New England Puritanism and Higher Education American Society and the Public Sphere The Development of the Transatlantic Calvinist Diaspora and Its Relations to the Puritan Culture Culture of Publishing in Early America 19th century Evangelical Movements and American Civil Society
Research Interests
Edwards
,Early America
,Hawthorne
,Puritanism
,Evangelicalism
,slavery
,Harvard College
,Publishing
,Beecher
,Public Sphere
,Puritan
,Calvinism
,Transatlantic
Research Areas
Humanities & social sciences / History - Europe/America /
Humanities & social sciences / Literature - European /
Humanities & social sciences / Religious studies /
Studies of American Citizenship in the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyJapan Society for the Promotion of Science: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific ResearchENDO Yasuo NAKANO Katsuro MASUI Shitsuyo ARAKI Junko MATSUBARA Hiroyuki HASHIKAWA Kenryu HIGOMOTO Yoshio SASAKI Hiromichi MORI Takeo NAKANO Yumiko HISADA Yukako KANAI Kotaro CHAPLIN Joyce CAPOZZOLA Christopher GOODMAN David JAFFEE David HALL David