Day 1 (October 6, 2018) Session Program

Session 1 starts at 2:00 pm; Session 2 at 2:55 pm; Session 3 at 3:50 pm; and Session 4 at 4:45 pm. Each session includes a paper presentation (30 minutes), plus questions and answers afterward.

Room #1

 FUJITA Yoshiko, Moderator

1. TOMIZUKA Ryohei, Keio University (Graduate)

Emerson’s Self in Society and Solitude: Rereading “Self-Reliance”

 

2. MATSUBARA Rumi, Kinki University (Part-time)

Truth as Thoreau Saw It: From his Writings ‘Natural History of Massachusetts’ and The Maine Woods

 

KIDO Mitsuyo, Moderator

3. ITAGAKI Masato, Seikei University (Graduate)

Dimmesdale’s Voice and “The Horror-Stricken Multitude” in The Scarlet Letter

 

4. IRIKO Fumiko,

Dimmesdale's Transformation

Room # 2

EGASHIRA Rie, Moderator

1. OKI Hinako, Waseda University (Graduate)

A Counterattack by the Wicked Women in Mark Twain’s “1002d Arabian Night”

 

NAMOTO Tatsuya, Moderator

2. TAKEI Tomoko, Kyoto Institute of Technology

The Act of Reading and Writing in The Sense of the Past

 

NISHITANI Takuya, Moderator

3. SUZUKI Issei, Hokkaido University (Graduate)

The Strangeness and the Familiarity in Herman Melville's “The Two Temples”

 

4. MAKINO Arimichi

Picturesque, Changing into Profound Darkness: Melville’s Revelation in Pierre

Room # 3

YOSHINO Narumi, Moderator

1. TSUCHIYA Yoko, Hirosaki University

Theodore Dreiser’s Ideal of the American Society: Through the Different Descriptions of Two Women in The Stoic

 

MISUGI Keiko, Moderator

2. CHIBA Yohei, Chukyo University

“The Net of Lives”: Conserving Contradictions in John Dos Passos’s Trilogy District of Columbia

 

NAKAGAKI Kotaro, Moderator

3. SAKAI Yasuhiro, National Institute of Technology, Yonago College

Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus: Juan Chicoy's Allegorical Journey

 

4. KANEKO Jun, Yamagata University

Steinbeck and Globalization

Room # 4

MEDROCK MINAO Maya, Moderator

1. UCHIDA Daiki, Keio University (Graduate)

Poshlust and Dim-Brained Brutality: A Hidden Critique of Totalitarian America in Vladimir Nabokov’s Bend Sinister

 

NAKAYAMA Satomi, Moderator

2. MIYAKE Ippei, Osaka University (Graduate)

In Search of "Mother Chaos": A Revisit to "Eden" in Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night

 

OBA Masako, Moderator

3. KONDO Yuki, Osaka University (Graduate)

The Failed "Soldier" at a Camping Site: Battling against the Multi-layered Epidemic in Philip Roth's Nemesis

 

GORMAN Michael, Moderator

4. FARNELL David, Fukuoka University

Children of Frankenstein: The Utopian Dream of “The Modern Prometheus”

Room # 5

MIYAMOTO Keiko, Moderator

1. NISHIMITSU Kisho, Kwansei Gakuin University (Part-time)

The Hidden Voice in the Primer: Narrative Strategy in The Bluest Eye

 

2. NAGAO Mayuki, Osaka University (Graduate)

The Possibilities of “Things Unborn”: Motifs of Germs in Toni Morrison’s Home

 

YAMASHITA Noboru, Moderator

3. SASAKI Yu, University of Tsukuba (Graduate)

Playing Harlem in Literature and Sports: The Harlem Renaissance and the Harlem Globetrotters

 

TAKANO Yasushi, Moderator

4. TSUJI Hideo, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Ralph Ellison on Hemingway and Style

Room # 6

NAKAMURA Rika, Moderator

1. TOKUYAMA Yukinori, The University of the Ryukyus (Part-time)

Forgotten Stories Aspiring to Decolonize the Asian Islands under US Control:　Vern Sneider’s Three “Far East” Novels

 

MAKINO Rie, Moderator

2. SUGAI Daichi, Matsuyama University

Coexistence with Pollution: The Body and the Environment in In the Heart of the Valley of Love

 

3. WATANABE Marika, National Institute of Technology, Kochi College

Race and Homosexuality in the Works of Nina Revoyr

 

4. No Session

Room # 7

HANAOKA Shigeru, Moderator

1. KURATA Mari, Rikkyo University (Graduate)

What Made Allen Tate Leave His “Stand”: The Tension between Poetry and Novel

 

DEGUCHI Natsumi, Moderator

2. UESUGI Yuko, National Institute of Technology, Kure College

False Masks: Analysis of The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956

 

3. MIYAKE Akiyoshi, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Ezra Pound and Music

 

4. No Session

Room # 8

KURODA Emiko, Moderator

1. MURAKAMI Haruka, Osaka University (Graduate)

An Escape into Performing a Figment: Self-conscious Acting and Self-confinement to Reality in The Two-Character Play

 

2. KOYAMA Tomoko, Kyushu Sangyo University (Part-time)

Tennessee Williams and D. H. Lawrence: With a Focus on "Tenderness" in A Streetcar Named Desire

 

FUJITA Atsushi, Moderator

3. MINATO Keiji, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts

Functions of the Dead on the 21st-century Broadway Musical Stage

 

4. No Session

Room # 9

SATO Rino, Moderator

1. TADOKORO Akari, Osaka University (Graduate)

An Irreversible Relationship Foreshadowed by the Lincoln Assassination: Redefining Identity in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog

 

2. NAKAYAMA Hiroki, Osaka University (Graduate)

The Same-Race Murder and the Undecidability of Black History in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog

 

FURUKI Keiko, Moderator

3. TONOOKA Naomi, Aoyama Gakuin University

The End of Liberal Politics in American Theatre in the 2010s

 

4. No Session

Day 2 (October 7, 2018)

Workshop

 11:55 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

 Room #1

 American Literature in the Classroom

Moderator and Panelist:	SEKIDO Fuyuhiko  (Dokkyo University)
Panelists:	KURABAYASHI Hideo (Kyorin University) HARADA Noriyuki (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)

 Room #2

  The Imagination of American Folk Culture: John Steinbeck Studies and the 50th Anniversary of His Death

Moderator and Panelist:	NAKAGAKI Kotaro (Senshu University)

Panelists:	YAMAUCHI Kiyoshi (Niimi College) KUBOTA Aya (Bunka Gakuen University) KIHARA Kenji (Sirayuri University) TSUKADA Yukihiro (Kwansei Gakuin University)

Symposia　　

 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

 I　ALSJ Hokkaido Branch

 Out of America, Out of Literature

Moderator:	HONJO Seiji
Panelists:	KATO Ryuji (Hokkaido University of Science) FUJII Hikaru (Doshisha University) IINO Tomoyuki (Sophia University)

 II　ALSJ Tokyo Branch

 On the Centenary of World War I: American Literature and Its Image of the World

Moderator and Panelist:	NAKANO Gakuji (Chuo University)
Panelists:	KIHARA Yoshihiko (Osaka University) NITTA Keiko (Rikkyo University) ORISHIMA Masashi (Aoyama Gakuin University)