Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Professor, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Cultures, Gakushuin University
- J-GLOBAL ID
- 201301070506204940
- researchmap Member ID
- 7000005931
Research Areas
1Education
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- 2005
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1985 - 1989
Committee Memberships
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2005 - Present
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Jan, 2019 - Dec, 2024
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2004 - 2006
Awards
4Papers
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Journal of Irish Studies, 39 3-12, Oct, 2025 Peer-reviewedLead author
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Where Love and Imagination Colour the Dark: Essays on Thomas Kinsella, edited by Adrienne Leavy (Wake Forest University Press), 108-131, 2025 Peer-reviewedLead author
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ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, 21(2) 15-31, Dec 24, 2024 Peer-reviewedInvitedThis paper explores the centrality of the poem “Ego Dominus Tuus” (1915) to Yeats’s thinking about the role of crisis and biographical self-fashioning in the creation of great art, and the significance of Italy and Italian examples in Yeats’s work. The vision of art that emerges in Yeats’s mature poetry, the doctrine of the mask and the anti-self, and the full articulation of his personal myth in A Vision (1925), are generated to a significant degree out of Yeats’s encounter with the courtly ideals of Baldassare Castiglione, which in turn informed his idiosyncratic, but for the development of his mature vision of art crucial, reading of Dante Alighieri. “Ego Dominus Tuus” is the poem in which the twin influences of Castiglione and Dante merge, and the poem which signals an imaginative fresh start for Yeats.
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Journal of Irish Studies, 37 23-35, 2023 Peer-reviewedInvited
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Irish University Review, 50(1) 206-214, Jun, 2020 Peer-reviewedInvited
Misc.
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Journal of Irish Studies, 34 128-130, Oct, 2019
Books and Other Publications
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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland/Literature Ireland, 2025 (ISBN: 9781068417740)
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Univ of California Pr, Sep 3, 2024 (ISBN: 0520400739) -
Presentations
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University of Notre Dame, Browning Cinema, South Bend, Indiana, USA, Oct 1, 2025 Invited
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University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA, Sep 30, 2025 Invited
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University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA, Sep 29, 2025 Invited
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IASIL International Conference 2025, University of Galway, Jul 22, 2025
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IASIL International Conference 2024, Gakushuin University, Aug 8, 2024
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Friends of Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Special Lecture, Aug 10, 2023 Invited
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Hunter College, New York, Japan Foundation Special Lecture, Mar 16, 2023 Invited
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Muldoon's Picnic, Irish Arts Center, New York, Mar 13, 2023 Invited
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International Yeats Society 2022 Online Conference, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea, Oct 16, 2022 Invited
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International Yeats Society 2022 Online Conference, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea, Oct 15, 2022 Invited
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IASIL International Conference, University of Limerick, Jul 26, 2022
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Irish Studies Guest Lecture, Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci (Faculty of Letters, University of Rijeka, Croatia), Jun 8, 2022 Invited
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2021 Yeats International Conference in Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Yeats Society of Korea (Online), Oct 29, 2021 Invited
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Ireland and the Charms of Celtic Group: An International Online Conference, hosted by Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Oct 23, 2021 Invited
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IASIL International Conference, University of Lodz, Poland (Online), Jul 23, 2021
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IASIL International Conference, Trinity College Dublin, Jul 23, 2019 Invited
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North American James Joyce Symposium: Joyce Without Borders, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Mexico City, Jun 13, 2019
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Talk on Giuseppe Ungaretti, in Italian and English, Italian Cultural Institute, Tokyo, Jan 30, 2018 Invited
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International Conference of the Korean Society of the East-West Comparative Literature, Dongguk University, Seoul, Nov 11, 2017 Invited
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‘The MacGuffin: Agency and Transformation in Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game.’IASIL International Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Jul 25, 2017
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IASIL Japan Conference, International Christian University, Oct 16, 2016 Invited
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EUNIC European Union National Institutes of Culture), Itslisn Cultural Institute, Tokyo, May 27, 2016 Invited
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International Poetry Reading organized by EUNIC (European Union National Institutes of Culture), Italian Cultural Institute, Tokyo, May 27, 2016 Invited
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IASIL Japan Conference, Hiroshima City University, Oct 3, 2015 Invited
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Special Invited Lecture, Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Lingue Straniere e Culture Moderne (Turin, Italy), Feb 18, 2015 Invited
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Special Invited Seminar, University of Limerick, Nov 21, 2014 Invited
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IASIL International Conference, Université Charles De Gaulle-Lille III, Lille, France, Jul 17, 2014
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Seamus Heaney: A Conference and Celebration, Queen’s University, Belfast, Apr 13, 2014
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IASIL Japan Conference Kyoto Notre Dame University, Oct 11, 2013
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ELLAK English Language & Literature Association of Korea Annual Conference, Busan, South Korea, Dec 10, 2012
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IASIL Japan Conference, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Oct 8, 2011 Invited
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Digital Romanticisms: An International Conference, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, May 22, 2010 Invited
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T.S. Eliot Society of Japan 21st Symposium, Special Lecture, Nov 9, 2008
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IASIL Japan Conference, Kobe Shinwa Women’s University, Oct 27, 2007
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, IASIL Japan Conference, Musashino University, Tokyo., Oct 9, 2005
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IASIL Japan Conference, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Hamamatsu, Oct 10, 2004
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IASIL Japan Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, Oct 13, 2003 Invited
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IASIL Japan Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, Oct 13, 2003
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Fifth Annual Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), Japan, Seikei University, Tokyo, May 24, 2003
Teaching Experience
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Apr, 2005 - PresentDepartment of English Language and Cultures (Gakushuin University)
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Apr, 2000 - Mar, 2003Visiting Lecturer in British Studies (Full-time) (The University of Tokyo, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Professional Memberships
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Oct, 1998 - Present
Media Coverage
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ZYZZYVA, ZYZZYVA, https://www.zyzzyva.org/2024/09/30/feeling-through-the-open-space-basho-the-complete-haiku-of-matsuo-basho/, Sep, 2024 Newspaper, magazine
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The Irish Times, The Irish Times, https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2023/05/27/the-best-recent-poetry-new-work-from-harry-clifton-andrew-fitzsimons-and-majella-kelly/, May, 2023 Newspaper, magazine
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Books For Breakfast, Books For Breakfast Podcast, https://booksforbreakfast.buzzsprout.com/1162427/12408353-55-injury-time-a-new-basho, Mar, 2023 Internet
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The Japan Times, The Japan Times, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/01/29/books/matsuo-basho-complete-works/, Jan, 2023 Newspaper, magazine
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SiriusXM Radio, Elevation U2 X-Radio, Nov, 2022