Researcher Information - NISHIMOTO Azusa |

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NISHIMOTO Azusa

Department / Course

Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English

Job Professor

Specialization and related fields
English literature and literature in the English language, History of thought keyword(African American literature and culture)

Belonging society
1.	2005 ～	Modern Language Association(MLA)
2.	2006/09 ～	Toni Morrison Society

Official position and committee in Univ.
1.	2024/04/01 ～ 2026/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University Chair
2.	2025/04/01 ～ 2027/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University
3.	2025/04/01 ～ 2026/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University Chair, The Foreign Language Laboratory

Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
1.	2022/04 ～ 2025/03	"More-Than-Human” Imagination and Narrative: Preliminary Research Towards Environmental Humanities at AGU Domestic Joint Research
2.	2024/04 ～ 2027/03	Digital archiving and verification of musical activities of the "Tsugawa Chikazu Collection" at Aoyama Gakuin. Domestic Joint Research

Activity in society
1.	2023/05	African American Women and Literature
2.	2024/06/28	Wills Glasspiegel Filmscreening and Talk ”Icy Lake：Community Filmmaking and Electronic Dance Music in Gay New York City (1996-2014)”
3.	2024/06/30	Wills Glasspiegel Filmscreening and Talk ”Icy Lake：Community Filmmaking and Electronic Dance Music in Gay New York City (1996-2014)”

Committee and society
1.	2025/04/01 ～	Schoonmaker Memorial Center for Gender Studies at Aoyama Gakuin University Director

Book and thesis
1.	Papers	(Re-)Imagining Jade Childs in Tar Baby: "Village Literature," Unpublished Screenplays, and Voices of the Post-Soul Generation Black Studies,pp.43-52 (Sole-authored) 2019/03
2.	Papers	Tha Pain and Creativity in the Diaspora: Toni Morrison's "Foreigner's Home.",pp.81-84 (Sole-authored) 2008/03
3.	Other	Translation Series of Black Feminist Texts (1): Frances Beale, “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female” (1970).,pp.171-181 (Sole-authored) 2024/03
4.	Other	African American Women and Literature,pp.66-73 (Sole-authored) 2023/03
5.	Other	Workshop Report for the 61st General Meeting of the American Literature Society of Japan. Black Studies,pp.89-97 (Co-authored) 2023/03

Lecturer and lecture
1.	2017/03/03	“Of Futurity, Then and Now: Re-Reading Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby (1981)” (University of California, Irvine, USA)
2.	2006/11/29	"It Was Coincidence but Not Coincidence: A Japanese Reading of African American Women Writers" (The Carl Fields Center at Princeton University)

Academic conference presentation
1.	2022/04/16	”’More than Human’ and African American Literature"
2.	2015/09/25	“It Was a Coincidence but Not Coincidence: My Thirty Years of Studying and Teaching African American Literature in Japan.” On panel of “We Who Are Japanese African Americanists: Intellectual Autobiographies of Japan Black Studies Association (JBSA) Members.” (The 100th Annual ASALH Meeting and Conference)