Visiting Professor

NAKAMURA Kazue

Education:

1991: M.A., University of Tokyo
1989: B.A., Ochanomizu University

Professional Experience:

2011 - 2012: Visiting academic, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
2011: Visiting Professor, International Research Center for Japanese studies
2010 - 2011: Visiting academic, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University
2010: Professor (Faculty of Law), Meiji University; Professor (Graduate School of Humanities), Meiji University
2003: Associate Professor (Faculty of Law), Meiji University; Assistant Professor (Graduate School of Humanities), Meiji University
2001: Tenure lecturer (Faculty of Law), Meiji University
2000: Visiting Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo; Exchange professor for winter semester, University of Wisconsin
1997 - 2001: Tenure lecturer, Seijo University
1993 - 1997: Tenure lecturer, Tezukayama Gakuin University
1992 - 1993: Fixed-term lecturer, Sydney University

Specialized Fields:

Comparative Literature and Culture, Postcolonial literature and culture (mainly Anglophone areas)

Current Research Themes:

Comparative study of postcolonial literature in English; currently the works of Jean Rhys in socio-historical context of relations between British Empire and its "outposts" or "outsides".

Comparative study of colonialism, racism, nationalism; currently the reconsideration of “senjumin” [original inhabitants] in Comparison with other countries and areas, and cultural history of changing evaluation of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art.

Major Publications:

2009: Let’s go to "Africa" all over the world: a guide to the [travelling] cultures (ed.), Iwanami Shoten; "A Dialogue to Find Ourselves and Others: The Reception of Emily Kngwarreye in Japan," Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art. Vol.9 No.1/2
2006: "On Heathen Crosses: Christian Frontiers in the Writings of Agnes Sam, Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Edgar Mittelholzer, Witi Ihimaera, Albert Wendt, E. J. Pratt and Endo Shusaku," Studies of Comparative Literature No.88, Tokyo University Comparative Literature Association
2005: "Suicides and Arsonists: Albert Wendt, Mishima Yukio, Sia Figiel or the Literature of Modern Darkness," SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. No.54/55
2003: "Home Haunts: The Problem of Nation in Trans-national Literature in English," Iwanami Lectures on Literature Vol. 13, Beyond the Nations, Iwanami Shoten