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2024

Media: Blog post "Discover New Worlds with “Global Literature: Short Stories” on Kyoto Notre Dame University website. Discover New Worlds with “Global Literature: Short Stories” ↗️

Discussant: Keynote lecture by Prof. Martin Manalansan (Rutgers U) at the AALA 35th Anniversary Forum on 21 September 2024 at Kobe University. AALA 35th Anniversary Forum 

Guest lecture: ‘Wit & Humour in British Society and Culture’, Kobe University, 8 August 2024. [Kobe University students only]

Guest lecture: ‘Wit and Humour in British Literature’, Doshisha Women’s College, 28 June 2024. [Doshisha students only]

Research trip: London 22 February to 4 March 2024 to research the Nikkei diaspora, visit universities, libraries, the Japanese Embassy, and cultural sites.

2023

Collaborative research: Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo. ‘Research on the Construction of Jomon People's iPS Cells and Their Applications’, KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 21H04779. 1 September, 2023 to 31 March 2024. Principal Investigator: Professor Hiroki Ota

Journal article:  ‘Creative Belongings Beyond Japan: Rethinking Belonging Using Novels by Nikkei Authors’ in Gengo Bunka Kenkyu, No. 11, pp. 23-44 (March)

Conference presentation:  “Queer Masculinity in the Transpacific: Guilt, Shame, and Desire in Cory Taylor's My Beautiful Enemy” at the Association for Asian Studies 2023 Annual Conference on 18 March 2023 in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center / Boston Sheraton Hotel.

Position: Associate Professor, Faculty of International Languages & Cultures, Department of English Language and Literature. 

2022

2022 Kyoto Notre Dame University Public Lecture “Creative Belongings Beyond Japan” held on 1 October 2022 with author Keiichiro Hirano the other speaker. 

Media article featured on JSPS Researchers Network  https://www-jsps-net.jsps.go.jp/membersvoice

Book chapter on popular fiction in Japan in the Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition. It is only available in print in Japan right now but it will be available as an ebook and in print worldwide by the end of the summer. https://www.mhmjapandocuments.com/copy-of-handbook-of-confucianism-in-j

2021

Research funding: JSPS Grant-in-aid for Early Career Scientific Research. Kyoto Notre Dame University. 3.6 million yen direct funds, 1.08 million yen indirect funds. KAKENHI 21K12957. Nikkei Global Literature: Diaspora, Race, Identity & Belonging. 

2020

Journal article: ‘Translingual Triangulation: Code-switching, Translation, and Silence in Contemporary Canadian Nikkei Novels’ in 30th Anniversary Issue of  Asian American Literature Association Journal, (April), pp. 64-81

2019

Commentator with Prof. Akio Tanabe (Tokyo Uni) at a symposium organised by Prof. Yasuko Takezawa (Kyoto Uni) at Kyoto University on 16 November, 2019. https://race.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/2019/uncategorized/international-seminar-racialization-multiple-modalities-of-invisibility-november-16-at-kyoto/ 

Conference presentation 'Translingual Triangulation: Code-switching, Translation, and Silence in Contemporary Canadian Nikkei Novels' on 29 September at Kobe University as an invited speaker for the 30th Anniversary International Forum of the Asian American Literature Association in Japan. 

Guest lecture on 6/7 Aug at Kobe University on 'Socio-Cultural Perspectives on the Humanities' as a guest lecturer on Professor Hideyuki Yamamoto's 'Summer English Lectures in Humanities' course. 

Journal article:  ‘Contesting Canada’s Narrative of Nation through Canadian Nikkei Children’s Literature’. ZINBUN, No. 49 (14 March), pp.31-56 

Discussant at The 14th Nichi-Doku Joint Lecture: “Passport regulations and the cross-border mobility in the Japanese empire” by Dr. Takahiro Yamamoto on 28 March, 2019 at Kyoto University. https://www.oc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/overseas-centers/eu/en/news/20190319_8017/

Conference presentation  "The Blossoming of Nikkei Australian Literature" on 25 March, 2019 at the Kyoto University Tokyo Office as part of the Open Seminar "Japanese Diaspora Literature and Memory of War - From the Cases of the USA and Australia". Link. 

Media article on Kyoto University website (English) https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research/research_results/2018/180731_3.html 

Collaborative research: JSPS KAKENHI Researcher (part-time, contract). Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. ‘Integrated Research into the Processes and Mechanisms of Racialization’ KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) 16H06320. 1 February, 2019 to 31 March 2023. Principal Investigator: Professor Yasuko Takezawa

Position: Tuto at: College of Liberal Arts, Ritsumeikan University. ‘Cultural Studies in Global Asia’. 26 September, 2019 to 20 January, 2020.

2018

Guest lecture on 4 November, 2018 to members of the Genius Table. http://geniustable.com 

Media article on Kyoto University website (Japanese)  http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research/research_results/2018/180731_3.html 

Conference presentation 'Japanese Australian Cultural Memory and Belonging in Masako Fukui’s "When Blossoms Fall"' on 29 July at the Uzumasa Campus of Kyotogakuen University as an invited speaker for the 134th meeting of the Asian American Literature Association in Japan. 

Journal article:   ‘'The Ambivalent Model Minority: Japanese-Canadians and Canadian Multiculturalism’. The Journal of Multicultural Society, 9:1 (31 July, 2018), pp. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.14431/omnes.2018.07.8.3.1

Guest lecture on 10 Aug at Kobe University on 'Japaneseness in the Transpacific Space' as a guest lecturer on Professor Hideyuki Yamamoto's 'Summer English Lectures in Humanities' course. 

2017

Journal article:   ‘Rooted-transnationalism and the Representational Function of Food in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms’. Contemporary Japan, 29:2 (7 July, 2017), pp. 132-147. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351023?af=R&journalCode=rcoj20 

Media article:   Lyle De Souza was interviewed for JSPS Quarterly (PDF) spring 2017, number 59. 

KAKENHI report: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-16F16751