EISHIRO ITO
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY
CURRICULUM VITAE (Updated: April 26, 2024)
Department of English
Center for Liberal Arts Education and Research
IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY
152-52 Sugo, Takizawa-shi,
Iwate 020-0693 Japan
Tel&Fax: +81 19 694 2806
e-mail: acro-ito@iwate-pu.ac.jp
Web page: http://www.iwate-pu.ac.jp/home/acro-ito/
Citizenship: Japan
Education
BA, Tohoku Gakuin University (1988)
MA, Tohoku Gakuin University (1990)
Participant, The James Joyce Annual Summer School
(1995, 1999, 2000, and 2017, University College Dublin)
Participant, The W. B. Yeats International Summer School
(1995 and 1999, Sligo, Ireland)
Participant, Annual Trieste Joyce School
(2000 and 2017, University of Trieste)
Participant, Zurich James Joyce Workshop
(2001 and 2017, Zurich Joyce Foundation)
Full-time Lecturer of English & Literature, Hamamatsu College, 1992-1997
Associate Professor of English & Literature, Hamamatsu College,
1997-1998
Associate Professor of English & Literature, Iwate Prefectural University, 1998-2018
Professor of English & Literature, Iwate Prefectural University, 2018-present
Director of Liberal Arts Education, Iwate Prefectural University, 2018-2019
Director of International Education, Iwate Prefectural University, 2019-2020
Lecturer of English, Miyagi National College of Technology, 1989-1992
Lecturer of English, Sendai College, 1990-1992
Lecturer of English & Literature, Shizuoka University, 1993-1995
Lecturer of English, University of Shizuoka, 1993-1997
Lecturer of English, Aichi University, 1994-1998
Lecturer of English, Iwate University, 1999-present
Lecturer of Cultural Studies/ English, Morioka University, 2007-present
Literature (esp. Irish Literature)
Cultural Studies (esp. Comparative Studies of
the Celts, Judaism and the Tohoku District of Japan)
Teaching English by Computer Assisted Instruction
Modern English Literature
Irish Literature
James Joyce
English (by conventional & by computer assisted instruction)
Cultural Studies
Courses Taught (most recent first)
ENGLISH (Using Computer Assisted Instruction):
English I, II, III, IV, Viewing Films, Iwate Prefectural University,
1998-present
ENGLISH (By Conventional Methods):
Morioka University, 2008-present
Iwate University, 1999-present
Hamamatsu College, 1992-1998
Aichi University, 1994-1998
University of Shizuoka, 1993-1997
Shizuoka University, 1993-1995
Sendai College, 1990-1992
Miyagi National College of Technology, 1989-1992
LITERATURE:
Literature Course (compendium), Iwate Prefectural University, 2014-present
Shakespeare Course, Iwate Prefectural University, 2000-2004
The Tale of Genji Course, Iwate Prefectural University, 2001-2002
English &Irish Short Fiction Course, Hamamatsu College, 1992-1998;
Aichi University, 1994-1998
James Joyce Seminar (Dubliners/A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man),
Hamamatsu College, 1992-1998
W.B.Yeats Course (poetry), Hamamatsu College, 1994-1998
Seamus Heaney Course (poetry), Hamamatsu College, 1995-1998
James Joyce Course (Dubliners), Aichi University, 1995-1996
J. M. Synge Course (A Playboy of the Western World), Hamamatsu
College,
1995-1996
Brian Friel Course (short fictions), Hamamatsu College & Aichi
University,
1995-1996
Virginia Woolf's Orlando (open lecture), Act City Hamamatsu,
June 1995
History of English Poetry, Hamamatsu College, 1994-1995
James Joyce Summer Intensive Course, Shizuoka University, 1993-1994
CULTURAL STUDIES:
Cultural Studies of the Celts, Judaism and the Tohoku Districts of Japan,
Morioka University, 2007-2010
The Tohoku District of Japan and Ireland: A Comparative Cultural Studies.
(inter-university lecture) Act City Hamamatsu, December
1997
About Britain, Hamamatsu College, 1996-1997
The History of London, Hamamatsu College, 1994-1995
THE BIBLE:
The Bible Course, Hamamatsu College, 1993-1994
Judge (most recent first):
The Selection Committee of JSPS* Research Fellowships for Young Scientists
(*Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), 2008-2010
The Selection Committee of JSPS* Postdoctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers
(*Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), 2008-2010
Co-Editor (most recent first):
Liberal Arts, Iwate Prefectural University, 2006-2012
The Journal of Policy Studies, Iwate Prefectural University, 2002-2006
Language and Culture, Iwate Prefectural University, 2000-2003
The Katahira: Studies in English Language & Literature,
1996-1998
Advisory Editor:
James Joyce Journal, The James Joyce Society of Korea, 2004-present
Member of Scholarly Organizations (alphabetical order):
IACI: The Irish American Cultural Institute, 1998-present
IASIL: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures,
1993-present
IJJF: International James Joyce Foundation, 1998-present
The English Literary Society of Japan, 1990-present
The James Joyce Society of Japan, 1990-present
The Katahira Study Group of English, Language & Literature,
1992-present
"James Joyce and Oriental Studies," University College Dublin, etc.,
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (UCD), April 1st to September 30th, 2017
Academic Awards and Distinctions (most recent first)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 21K00345)
by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2021-2025
(for “James Joyce's Journey to the East and the Jesuit Mission”)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 26370283)
by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2014-2018
(for “James Joyce and the De-Westernization and Re-Easternization of East Asia”)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 21520266)
by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2009-2013
(for “James Joyce and the Genealogy of Oriental Studies”)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 18520223)
by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2006-2008
(for “James Joyce and Orientalism”)
Research Grant by the Iwate Prefecture Society for the Promotion of Science, 2003
(for "Comparative Cultural/Literary Studies of the Tohoku District of Japan and Ireland")
Research Grant by the Iwate Prefecture Society for the Promotion of Science, 2002
(for "Comparative Cultural/Literary Studies of the Tohoku District of Japan and Ireland")
Research Grant by the Iwate Prefecture Society for the Promotion of Science, 2000
(for "Comparative Cultural/Literary Studies of the Tohoku District of Japan and Ireland")
Research Grant by the Iwate Prefecture Society for the Promotion of Science, 1998
(for "Comparative Cultural/Literary Studies of the Tohoku District of Japan and Ireland")
Books Published (most recent first):
The Paris of Joyce & Beckett: A Tourist Guide: "Ulysses" Centenary Supplement.
Edited by Brian O'Shea and Sean Donlon. Ito wrote 3 haiku poems, p. 30.
London: London Irish Literary Travel, 2022.
The 100th Anniversary of "Ulysses".
Edited by Masaya Shimokusu, Izumi Sugawa and Akira Tamura:
Ito wrote "A Japanese Reading of Ulysses: "In the Track of the Sun towards the Land of the Rising Sun ---Buddha Mulligan and a Geisha in Kyoto." (pp. 269-90)
Kyoto: Shorai-sha, February 2, 2022.
Transcultural Studies 10.
Chief editor: Hu Jihua: Ito wrote pp. 158-175 (Chinese trans. Feng Yingying and notes by Liu Yan).
Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, September 2021.
The Lost Letters of Flann O'Brien.
Edited by Gerry McGowan and Andrew Sherlock: Ito wrote pp. 173-174.
Liverpool: The Pen and Pencil Gallery, January 2021.
A Companion to World Literature. 6 vols.
Edited by Ken Seigneurie (Editor-in-Chief), Wiebke Denecke (Associate Editor), Christine Chism (Associate Editor), Ilaria L E Ramelli (Associate Editor), Christopher Lupke (Associate Editor), Evan Nicoll-Johnson (Associate Editor), Frieda Ekotto (Associate Editor), Abigail Celis (Associate Editor), B. Venkat Mani (Associate Editor).
Collaborated: Ito wrote Chapter 5 of the Volume 5b.
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, February 2020.
A Portal to "A Portrait": Twelve Key Essays.
Edited by Wataru Takahashi, etc.: Ito wrote pp. 310-289.
Tokyo: Eiho-sha, March 2019.
James Joyce and the Orient: Critical Texts (Chinese & English Collections).
Edited by Liu Yan: Ito wrote pp. 135-171.
Fuzhou, China: Fujian Education Publishing House, November 2018.
The Katahira: Studies in English & Literature:
The 50th Anniversary Issue.
Collaborated with the Katahira Group: Ito wrote pp. 51-67.
Tokyo: Kinsei-do, March 2015.
A Companion to James Joyce
(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture).
Edited by Richard Brown. Collaborated: Ito wrote Chapter 12.
Oxford, Malden, MA and Carlton, Victoria: Blackwell Publishing, January 2008/pap. May 2011.
James Joyce Jiten (James Joyce A to Z).
Edited by A. Nicholas Fargnori & Michael Patrick Gillespie.
Japanese translation collaborated with the James Joyce Study Group.
Tokyo: Shohaku-sha, June 1997.
The Katahira: Studies in English & Literature:
The 30th Anniversary Issue.
Collaborated with the Katahira Group: Ito wrote pp. 169-184.
Tokyo: Kinsei-do, March 1996.
Articles Published (most recent first):
""But I Say: Let My Country Die for Me" (U 15.4473): Postnationalism and the Jesuit Adaptation of Joyce and Vico."
James Joyce Journal, vol. 29, no. 2. The James Joyce Society of Korea,
Winter 2023, 107-30.
"'James Joyce e as traducoes japonesas: “If it Was, in Yappanoise Language, Ach Bad Clap?” (FW 90.27-28)."
Cadernos de Traducao, vol. 42, no. 2: Traduzindo James Joyce. Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil (ISSN 2175-7968),
29 December 2022, 65-84.
"'My Conscience is Fine as Chinese Silk': Genetic Joyceastasian Studies."
James Joyce Journal, vol. 27, no. 2. The James Joyce Society of Korea,
Winter 2021, 9-35.
"Joyce in the Machine/ Re-Joyce in the Digital Humanities."
James Joyce Journal, vol. 25, no. 2. The James Joyce Society of Korea,
Winter 2019, 105-25.
"The Japanese Effect or Haiku on Irish Literature."
The Katahira: Studies in English & Literature,
Vol. 54.
The Katahira Society, March 2019, 15-31.
"Joyce, Kurosawa and "Star Wars": 'monomyth' (FW 581.24)."
The Katahira: Studies in English & Literature,
Vol. 53.
The Katahira Society, March 2018, 1-18.
"Joyce to the World and Murakami to the Globe."
The Katahira: Studies in English & Literature,
Vol. 52.
The Katahira Society, March 2017, 1-18.
"Reconciliation between Joyce and Yeats at the Noh Theatre."
The Journal of Policy Studies, Vol. 18, No.2.
Policy Studies Association,
Iwate Prefectural University, March 2017, 89-101.
"James Joyce among Modernists/Orientalists."
The Katahira: Studies in English & Literature,
Vol. 51.
The Katahira Society, March 2016, 21-36.
"Joyce and Salinger:
A Study of Their References to Buddhism."
James Joyce Journal, vol. 21, no.2. The James Joyce Society of Korea,
Winter 2015, 117-36.
"Awareness of Asianess of Irishness:
Joyce among Irish Orientalists."
The Journal of Policy Studies, Vol. 15, No.2.
Policy Studies Association,
Iwate Prefectural University, March 2014, 147-59.
"Asia was, Laozi is, Plurabelle to be:
China and Japan through Joyce’s 'Cracked Lookingglass.'"
Comparative Literature & World Literature, Vol.4.
The Chinese Comparative Literature Association, Peking University Press, China,
December 2013, 16-34.
"'A Suave Philosophy':
Reconciling Religious Identities in Joyce's Works."
The Journal of Policy Studies, Vol. 15, No.1.
Policy Studies Association,
Iwate Prefectural University, November 2013, 37-47.
"Three Hybrid Japanese Joyceans:
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Sei Ito and Haruki Murakami."
James Joyce Journal, vol. 18, no. 2. The James Joyce Society of Korea,
Winter 2012, 207-35.
"Noh (能) and Zen (禅) in Joyce and Yeats:
Mapping 'Convergence' in Japanese Culture in East Asia."
2012 ELLAK International Conference Proceedings:
"Border, Translation, and What Then?:
Rethinking "Convergence" in English Language and Literature."
The English Language and Literature Association of Korea,
December 11, 2012, 117-30.
"Depicting Dublin with Israelite and Islamic Elements:
James Joyce's Transnational Modernity."
The Journal of Policy Studies, Vol. 13, No.2.
Policy Studies Association,
Iwate Prefectural University, May 2012, 89-102.
"'Bonzour' 'Mousoumeselles': Joyce and Japonisme."
The Katahira: Studies in English & Literature,
Vol. 47.
The Katahira Society, March 2012, 33-50.
"Journey to the Far East: Reading Joyce
in the Jesuit Context Featuring St. Francis Xavier."
James Joyce Journal, vol. 16, no. 2. The James Joyce Society of Korea,
Winter 2010, 53-78.
"Orienting Orientalism in Ulysses"
James Joyce Journal, vol. 14, no. 2. The James Joyce Society of Korea,
Winter 2008, 51-70.
"'And I belong to a race that is hated and persecuted':
Anti-Semitism in Ulysses."
The Journal of Policy Studies, Vol. 9, No.2.
Policy Studies Association,
Iwate Prefectural University, March 2008, 127-140.
"Diaspora Jews in Joyce's Dublin:
Irish Jewish Lives Described in Ulysses."
Liberal Arts, No. 2. Center for Liberal Arts Education and Research,
Iwate Prefectural University, January 2008, 29-43.
"'United States of Asia' (VI.B.3.073):
A Postcolonial Reception of James Joyce and Japan."
James Joyce Journal, vol. 12, no.2. The James Joyce Society of Korea,
Winter 2006, 103-127.
"Anti-Semitism/Anti-feminism in Giacomo Joyce."
The Journal of Policy Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2. Policy Studies Association,
Iwate Prefectural University, March 2006, 277-288.
"CALL English Courses in the General Studies Program:
A Case Study in Iwate Prefectural University."
Language and Culture, No.8. Association for Language and Culture Education
and Research, Iwate Prefectural University, January 2006, 1-17.
"Nationalism in Ulysses and Kenji Miyazawa's Works."
Language and Culture, No. 7. Center for Language and Culture Education
and Research, Iwate Prefectural University, January 2005, 43-55.
"Two Japanese Translations of Finnegans Wake Compared:
Yanase (1991-1993) and Miyata (2004)."
James Joyce Journal, vol. 10, no. 2. The James Joyce Society of Korea,
Winter 2004, 117-152.
"The Japanese Elements of Finnegans Wake: "Jishin, Kaminari, Kaji, Oyaji."
Joycean Japan, No.15. The James Joyce Society of Japan,
June 16, 2004, 36-50.
"How Did Buddhism Influence James Joyce and Kenji Miyazawa?"
Language and Culture, No. 6. Center for Language and Culture Education
and Research, Iwate Prefectural University, January 2004,
11-23.
"Mediterranean Joyce Meditates on Buddha."
Language and Culture, No. 5. Center for Language and Culture Education
and Research, Iwate Prefectural University, January 2003,
53-64.
"In the buginning is the woid."
Joycean Japan, No. 13. The James Joyce Society of Japan,
June 16, 2002, 99-129.
"'The Ondt and the Gracehoper' in Progress and The Book of the
Dead: A Study of Finnegans Wake."
Language and Culture, No. 4. Center for Language and Culture Education
and Research, Iwate Prefectural University, January 2002,
1-26.
"Is Leopold Bloom a Jewish Freemason?"
The Journal of Policy Studies, Vol. 3 , No. 2.
Policy Studies Association,
Iwate Prefectural University, December 2001, 1-15.
"The Phoenix Park Murders & Stephen's Parable of the Plums:
An Analysis of 'Aeolus.'"
The Journal of Policy Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3.
Policy Studies Association,
Iwate Prefectural University, December 2000, 257-270.
"'I am the insurrection and the life':
Reading Irish Nationalism in the 6th Episode of Ulysses."
The Journal of Policy Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4.
Policy Studies Association,
Iwate Prefectural University, December 1999, 437-452.
"Doublong to guenneses?"
Joycean Japan, No. 9. The James Joyce Society
of Japan,
June 16, 1998, 88-107.
"The Nameless Narrator and Nationalism:
A Study of the "Cyclops" Episode of Ulysses."
The Harp, No. 12. IASIL Japan, September 1997, 103-112.
"Poldy & Molly--the queer breakfast scene--."
The Katahira: Studies in English & Literature,
Vol. 31.
The Katahira Society, March 1997, 66-79.
"Listening to the Flow of the Anna Livia
--Joyce's Reading and Ogden's English Version--."
Joycean Japan, No.7.& The James Joyce Society of Japan,
June 16, 1996, 46-59.
"Hamlet pere and Hamlet fils: A Study of 'Scylla and
Charybdis.'"
Central Japan English Studies, Vol. 15.
The English Literary Society of Japan, Chubu, March 1996,
41-54.
"A Mystery of Mr Duffy's Study:
An Essay on the Autobiographical Elements of 'A Painful Case.'"
The Katahira: Studies in English & Literature,
the 30th Anniversary
Issue. Tokyo: Kinsei-do, March 1996, 169-184.
"Bluebeard: Seamus Heaney's 'Blackberry-Picking.'"
Hamamatsu College Newsletter of English Language &
Literature, No. 19.
Hamamatsu College, December 1996, 2-3.
"The Language of Mr Flower: An Anatomy of "Lotus-Eaters.'"
Collected Treatises Hamamatsu Tanki Daigaku, No. 49.
Hamamatsu College, July 1995, 147-174.
"'Two Gallants,' Wandering in Dublin: A Topographical Study."
Collected Treatises Hamamatsu Tanki Daigaku, No. 48.
Hamamatsu College, December 1994, 159-179.
"A Memorandum on The Book of Kells."
Hamamatsu College Newsletter of English Language & Literature, No. 16.
Hamamatsu College, December 1993, 4-6.
"James Joyce's 'The Sisters': Tenebrism and Prisms of Telling."
Collected Treatises Hamamatsu Tanki Daigaku, No. 46.
Hamamatsu College, November 1993, 339-362.
"'Verzeih, mir, ich kann nicht lauter sprechen':
A Study of Michael Ende's Der Spiegel im Spiegel:
Ein Labyrinth."
Hamamatsu College Newsletter of English Language &
Literature, No. 15.
Hamamatsu College, July 1993, 2-3.
"'Circe'/Circle/Cycle."
Joycean Japan, No. 4. The James Joyce Society of Japan,
June 16, 1993, 5-20.
"Samuel Haughton's Dynamics on Suicide by Hanging in Soseki
Natsume's Botchan."
Hamamatsu College Newsletter of English Language &
Literature, No. 14.
Hamamatsu College, December 1992, 9-10.
"How to Work on a Literary Thesis: A Personal View."
Hamamatsu College Newsletter of English Language &
Literature, No. 13.
Hamamatsu College, July 1992, 7-8.
"The Duplication of 'the Creator' and 'the creator' in Ulysses:
An Analysis of 'Proteus.'"
Tohoku, 26. The Department of English, the Graduate School of Tohoku
Gakuin University, January 1992, 1-31.
"Reading Ulysses as a Satirical Novel: 'The Cracked Lookingglass.'"
and Necrophilia
Tohoku, 25. The Department of English, the Graduate School of Tohoku
Gakuin University, January 1990, 19-45.
"On 'Dogs' of James Joyce's Ulysses."
Tohoku, 24. The Department of English, the Graduate School of Tohoku
Gakuin University, December 1988, 41-71.
Miscellaneous (most recent first):
Eishiro Ito: COVID Check-In (James Joyce Quarterly Video Diary COVID Check-in series)
James Joyce Quarterly (International James Joyce Foundation), April 28, 2020.
Book Reviews Published:
Sean Latham, ed. 2010. James Joyce
(Visions and Revisions: Irish Writers in their Time).
James Joyce Broadsheet, no. 88. University of Leeds, UK.
February 2011, 2.
Cormac O Grada. 2006. Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce:
A Socileconomic History.
Joycean Japan, No. 18. The James Joyce Society of Japan,
June 16, 2007, 86-87.
Naoki Yanase, trans. 1991/1993. Finnegans Wake.
(collaborated with the Kanto James Joyce Study Group)
Joycean Japan, No. 6. The James Joyce Society
of Japan,
June 16, 1995, 128-138.
John Wyse Jackson & Bernard McGinley. 1993. James Joyce's "Dubliners":
An Annotated Edition.
Joycean Japan, No. 5. The James Joyce Society of Japan,
June 16, 1994, 150-156.
Study Notes:
"Finnegans Wake 009.07-18: The Museyroom Episode."
Joycean Japan, No. 8. The James Joyce Society of Japan,
June 16, 1997, 74-86.
"Finnegans Wake 006.08-17: The Wall."
Joycean Japan, No. 5. The James Joyce Society of Japan,
June 16, 1994, 111-122.
Conference Reports:
"The Great East Japan Earthquake and the Trend of East Asian Joyce Studies."
Newsletter, 2011.11.1. The James Joyce Society of Japan, November, 2011.
"From 'Re-Nascent Joyce' to 'Glocalizing Joyce':
A Perspective of XXI International James Joyce in Tours, France, etc."
Newsletter, 2008.10.1. The James Joyce Society
of Japan, October, 2008.
"News/ Seoul Joyce Conference."
James Joyce Broadsheet, no. 70, February 2005. University of Leeds,
UK, February 2005.
(collaborated with Eunkyung Chun, Soongsil University, Korea)
"News/ Japanese Centenary Bloomsday."
James Joyce Broadsheet, no. 69, October 2004. University of Leeds,
UK, October 2004.
"'And trieste, ah trieste ate I my liver!':
A Perspective of XVIII International James Joyce in Trieste."
Newsletter, 2002.7. The James Joyce Society
of Japan, July, 2002.
"A New Perspective in Irish Studies: The 9th James Joyce Summer School."
IASIL Japan Newsletter, 95-3, December 1995.
Presentations (most recent first):
"'But I say: Let my country die for me' (U 15.4473) : Psonationalism and the Jesuit Adaptation of Joyce and Vico"
The10th International James Joyce Conference:
"Joyce, Postnationalism, and Beyond."
Fully virtual (Zoom), Korea, June 17, 2023.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude: The Reception of 'Ulysses' in Japan."
(Panel: A mixed reception of applause and hisses’: International Readings (II))
XXVIII International James Joyce Symposium: "James Joyce: 'Ulysses' 1922-2022."
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, June 15, 2022.
"Genetic Joyceastasian Studies: 'My conscience is fine as Chinese silk.'"
The 9th International James Joyce Conference:
"Joyce Studies in East Asia: Perspectives and Prospects."
Fully virtual (Zoom), Korea, June 19, 2021.
"Jesuit Omniscientific Orientalism from Vico to Joyce."
(Panel: Dante. Bosch. Bruno. Vico)
XXVII International James Joyce Symposium: "Omniscientific Joyce."
University of Trieste (Zoom), Italy, June 16, 2021.
"Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission and James Joyce."
(Session: Asia and Revivalist Ireland: Postcolonial, Transcultural
and Modernist reciprocal literary exchanges. - Day 2).
ACLA 2021: The American Comparative Literature Association's 2021 Annual Meeting.
Fully virtual (Zoom), Canada, April 10, 2021 (April 11, 2021 JST).
"Transjoyce: “checking chinchin chat with nipponnippers!” (FW 485.36-486.1)"
(Session 3.1. Orientation(s).
2019 North American James Joyce Symposium: "Joyce Without Borders."
Casa Universitaria del Libro (CASUL), Mexico City, Mexico, June 13, 2019.
"Joyce in the Machine/ Re-Joyce in the Digital Humanities."
The 8th International James Joyce Conference:
"Joyce and Technological Culture."
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, May 18, 2019.
"Education: The ‘Jesuit’ Artist and The Speckled ‘Bard.’"
(Panel: The Art of James Joyce and William Butler Yeats: Language, Context, and the Self)
XXVI International James Joyce Symposium: "The Art of James Joyce."
University of Antwerp, Belgium, June 12, 2018.
"James Joyce Studies and Japanese Literature in the Digital Humanities"
The 2nd International Conference in Commemoration of Its 20th Foundation Anniversary:
"East-West Comparative Literature, World Literature, and Digital Humanities."
Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, November 11,
2017.
"Japanese/Chinese Postscrapt in Finnegans Wake."
Zurich James Joyce Workshop 2017: "Joycean Postscrapt."
Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Switzerland, August 4,
2017.
"The Japanese Effect on Yeats, Joyce and Heaney."
(Panel 16: Ireland and Japan: a bountiful friendship)
IASIL 2017: "Ireland's Writers in the 21st Century."
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, July 25, 2017.
"Joycean Diaspora in Chinese/ Japanese Written Character"
(Session 3: 1. Found In Translation: What is That Other Wor(l)d.
2017 North American James Joyce Conference: "Diasporic Joyce."
Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada, June 22, 2017.
"Joyce, Kurosawa and Star Wars: 'Monomyth' (FW 581.24)."
(Session 1: Joyce and Popular Culture)
XXV International James Joyce Symposium: "Anniversary Joyce."
School of Advanced Study, University of London, England, June 15, 2016.
"Reconciliation between Joyce and Yeats at the Noh Theatre."
(Session: Parallel 5f - Another Look at Dublin's Joyce)
IASIL 2015: "Reconciliations."
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures,
The University of York, York, England, July 21, 2015.
"Joyce and Salinger:
A Study of Their References to Buddhism."
The 6th International James Joyce Conference:
"Glocal Joyce."
Kangnam University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, June 6, 2015.
"Joyce to the World and Murakami to the Globe."
(Symposium 2 "James Joyce and World Literature")
The 31st International IASIL Japan Conference: "Ireland: Altered Images."
The Japan Branch of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures,
Waseda University, Japan, October 12, 2014.
"The Great War and Modernism: Joyce among Orientalists."
(Session 28: Contexts III)
XXIV International James Joyce Symposium: "a long the krommerun."
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 17, 2014.
"China and Japan through Joyce's 'Cracked Lookingglass.'"
(1st Plenary Speech)
2013 Shanghai James Joyce Symposium,
Fudan University, Shanghai, China, August 14, 2013.
"Joyce and the City: 'In Westland row he halted before
the window of the Belfast and Oriental Tea Company' (U 5.17-18)."
(Session: Parallel 5f - Another Look at Dublin's Joyce)
IASIL 2013: "Urban Cultures."
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures,
Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, July 24, 2013.
"Noh (能) and Zen (禅) in Joyce and Yeats:
Mapping 'Convergence' in Japanese Culture in East Asia."
The 2012 ELLAK International Conference:
"Border, Translation, and What Then?:
Rethinking "Convergence" in English Language and Literature"
BEXCO, Busan, Korea, December 12, 2012.
"Three Hybrid Japanese Joyceans:
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Sei Ito and Haruki Murakami."
The 5th International Conference on James Joyce:
"Hybrid Joyce."
Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea, November 10, 2012.
"Awareness of Asianess of Irishness: Joyce among Irish Orientalists."
(Panel: II)
XXIII International James Joyce Symposium: "Joyce, Dublin and Environs."
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, June 13, 2012.
"'A Suave Philosophy': Reconciling Religious Identities in Joyce's Works."
(Session: Language, Memory, Symbolism:
Reconciling Conflicting Identities in Irish Literature)
IASIL 2011: "Conflict and Resolution."
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, July 19, 2011.
"Journey to the Far East:
Reading Joyce in the Jesuit Context Featuring St. Francis Xavier."
The 4th International Conference on James Joyce:
"Place in Joyce."
Sejong University, Seoul, Korea, November 20, 2010.
"Noh and Zen in Finnegans Wake: 'Prafarfeast' 'in the
east' (FW 541)."
(Panel: Finnegans Wake: Motifs and References II)
XXII International James Joyce Symposium: "Prafarfeast."
Charles University, Prague, Czech, June 16, 2010.
"Depicting Dublin with Israelite and Islamic Elements: James Joyce's
Transnational Modernity."
(Session: James Joyce)
IASIL 2009: "Irish Literatures: World Perspectives."
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures,
University of Glasgow, Scotland, July 30, 2009.
"Orienting Orientalism in Ulysses."
The 2008 Seoul Conference on James Joyce:
"Glocalizing Joyce: East Asian & Other Perspectives"
Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, September 27, 2008.
"'Bonzour' 'Mousoumeselles': Joyce and Japonisme."
(Panel: New Contexts for Joyce)
XXI International James Joyce Symposium: "Re-Nascent Joyce."
Universite Francois-Rabelais, Tours, France, June 20, 2008.
"Diaspora Jews in Joyce's Dublin: Irish Jewish Lives Described in Ulysses."
(Session: Joyce and the Others)
IASIL 2007: "Varieties of Irishness." The International Association
for the Study of Irish Literatures, University College Dublin, Ireland,
July 17, 2007.
"'United States of Asia' (VI.B.3.073):
A Postcolonial Reception of James Joyce and Japan."
2006 International James Joyce Conference on
"The East-Asian Reception of James Joyce"
Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, November 4, 2006.
"'And I belong to a race that is hated and persecuted':
Anti-Semitism in Ulysses."
(Panel: Jewish I)
XX International James Joyce Symposium: "Joycean Unions."
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, June 13, 2006.
"A Practical Use of CALL and a Website in English Language Education."
("Dai-1-Bunkakai" [Session 1])
"Dai-55-kai Tohoku-Hokkaido-Chiku Daigaku Ippan-Kyoiku Kenkyukai"
(The Fifty-Fifth Meeting of the Association of Universities of the
Tohoku and Hokkaido Region for the Study of General Education),
Iwate Prefectural University, Japan, September 8, 2005.
"Anti-Semitism/ Anti-feminism in Giacomo Joyce."
(Session: Joyce & Credence)
IASIL 2005: "Ireland: A Global Village?" The International Association
for the Study of Irish Literatures, Charles University, Prague, Czech,
July 28, 2005.
"Two Japanese Translations of Finnegans Wake Compared:
Yanase (1991-1993) and Miyata (2004)."
(Session 4: Translating and Internationalizing Joyce)
2004 International Conference on James Joyce and the Humanities,
Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, November 26, 2004.
"Re-Joyce over Two Asian Translations of Finnegans Wake:
Yanase's Japanese Wake."
(Panel: Translating Joyce: Asian and European Contexts)
XIX International James Joyce Symposium:
"Bloomsday 100." National College of Ireland, Ireland, June 13, 2004.
"Nationalism in Ulysses and Kenji Miyazawa's Works."
The 20th International IASIL Japan Conference: "A Look Backward
and a Step Forward."
The Japan Branch of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures,
Waseda University, Japan, October 13, 2003.
"Griffith Getting into Ulysses through Hungary."
(Session 1: James Joyce)
IASIL 2003: "Getting into Contact." The International Association
for the
Study of Irish Literatures, University of Debrecen, Hungary, July
8, 2003.
"How Did Buddhism Influence James Joyce and Kenji Miyazawa?"
The 19th International IASIL Japan Conference: "Crossing
Borders."
The Japan Branch of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures,
Hiroshima City University, Japan, October 20, 2002.
"Mediterranean Joyce Meditates on Buddha."
(Panel: Joyce and Religion) XVIII International James
Joyce Symposium:
"Joyce 2002: Mediterranean Joyce." Trieste, Italy, June
20, 2002.
"Freemasonry in Ulysses."
Zurich James Joyce Workshop 2001: "Performative Joyce."
Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Switzerland, August 10,
2001.
"Odysseus as a Jewish Freemason."
(Panel B Fiction: Joyce's Odysseys)
IASIL 2001: "Odysseys." The International Association
for the Study of
Irish Literatures, Dublin City University, Ireland, August
1, 2001.
"The Ondt and the Gracehoper: FW414.16-419.10."
(Panel: Finnegans Wake Workshop: "Bauck to Baugsics")
The 13th Conference of the James Joyce Society of Japan.
Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, June 17, 2001.
"'Pongo da Banza!': 'His lipponease longuewedge'/
'yappanoise' language of Finnegans Wake."
(Panel: Transcultural Joyce)
XVII International James Joyce Symposium: "Joyce 2000:
The Right to
Write." Goldsmiths College, University of London, England,
June 26, 2000.
"The Fall of Finnegan: FW004.18-006.12."
(Panel: Finnegans Wake Workshop)
The 9th Conference of the James Joyce Society of Japan.
Waseda
University, Japan, June 22, 1997.
"The Practical Use of the Internet for the Literary Study:
The Cyber-discussion on the Narrator of the Cyclops"
of Ulysses."
The 12th Meeting of Ulysses Reading Group.
Tokyo University of
Mercantile Marine, Japan, December 26, 1996.
"The Nameless Narrator and the Nationalism:
A Study of "Cyclops" of Ulysses."
The 13th International IASIL Japan Conference: "Individual
and Community."
The Japan Branch of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures,
Shikoku University, Japan, September 29, 1996.
"A Mystery of Mr Duffy's Study:
An Essay on the Autobiographical Elements of 'A Painful Case.'"
The 30th Anniversary Conference of the Katahira Society
of English
Language and Literature. Nagoya Institute of Technology,
Japan,
September 9, 1995.
"The Anna Livia Chapter: FW215.12-216.05."
(Panel: Finnegans Wake Workshop)
The 7th Conference of the James Joyce Society of Japan.
Waseda
University, Japan, June 12, 1995.
"Jennifer Johnston's How Many Miles to Babylon and the Irish
History."
The 5th Meeting of the 20th Century Irish Novels Reading
Group.
Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, Japan, December
23, 1994.
"Hamlet pere and Hamlet fils: A Study of the 9th Episode
of Ulysses."
The 46th Conference of the English Literary Society of
Japan, Chubu.
Shizuoka Seika College, Japan, October 1, 1994.
"Joyce and Psychoanalysis."
The 3rd Summer Session of Kanto Joyce Study Group.
Yamanashi Eiwa
College, Japan, August 27, 1993.
"A Plot Summary of Finnegans Wake II.3."
The 26th Meeting of Kanto Joyce Study Group. Meiji University, Japan,
December 26, 1992.
"The Chronotope of 'Circe' of Ulysses."
The 4th Conference of the James Joyce Society of Japan.
Waseda University, Japan, June 14, 1992.
"'The Creator' and 'the creator' focusing on the 3rd Episode of
Ulysses."
The 25th Conference of Departments of English, Graduate
Schools.
Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan, November 16, 1991.
"The Function of the Sun: A Study of 'Proteus' of
Ulysses."
The 46th Conference of the English Literary Society of
Tohoku.
Miyagi University of Education, Japan, October 5, 1991.
"Ulysses as a Cracked Lookingglass and Necrophilia."
The 24th Conference of Departments of English, Graduate
Schools.
Tsudajuku Women's University, Japan, November 10, 1990.
"The Descriptions of Corpses in James Joyce's Ulysses."
The 45th Conference of the English Literary Society of
Tohoku.
Fukushima University, Japan, October 6, 1990.
"On 'Dogs' of James Joyce's Ulysses."
Sendai Discussion Group of English Literature.
Tohoku Gakuin University,
Japan, July 17, 1989.
Chair of Conference Panels (most recent first):
"The Ending like an Epiphany: James Joyce's "The Sisters."
76th Conference of The English Literary Society of Japan, Tohoku Branch."
(Zoom), November 27, 2021.
"New Contexts for Joyce."
XXI International James Joyce Symposium: "Re-Nascent Joyce."
Universite Francois-Rabelais, Tours, France, June 20, 2008.
"Translating Joyce: Asian and European Contexts."
XIX International James Joyce Symposium: "Bloomsday 100."
National College of Ireland, Ireland, June 13, 2004.