Specialization and related fields
Business career
Belonging society
Official position and committee in Univ.
Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
Activity in society
Book and thesis
Lecturer and lecture
Academic conference presentation
    （Last updated : 2024-06-15 23:30:54）
  NISHIMOTO Azusa
   Department   Aoyama Gakuin University  Department of English, College of Literature
   Position   Professor
■ Specialization and related fields
English literature and literature in the English language 
■ 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
■ Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
1. 2022/04～2024/03  "More-Than-Human” Imagination and Narrative: Preliminary Research Towards Environmental Humanities at AGU  (Key Word : )
2. 2024/04～2027/03  Digital archiving and verification of musical activities of the "Tsugawa Chikazu Collection" at Aoyama Gakuin.  (Key Word : )
■ Activity in society
1. 2023/05 African American Women and Literature Link
■ Book and thesis
1. Article (Re-)Imagining Jade Childs in Tar Baby: "Village Literature," Unpublished Screenplays, and Voices of the Post-Soul Generation Black Studies pp.43-52 (Single) 2019/03
2. Article Tha Pain and Creativity in the Diaspora: Toni Morrison's "Foreigner's Home."  pp.81-84 (Single) 2008/03
3. Other Translation Series of Black Feminist Texts (1): Frances Beale, “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female” (1970).  pp.171-181 (Single) 2024/03
4. Other African American Women and Literature  pp.66-73 (Single) 2023/03 Link
5. Other Workshop Report for the 61st General Meeting of the American Literature Society of Japan. Black Studies pp.89-97 (Collaboration) 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) Link
■ Academic conference presentation
1. 2022/04/16 ”’More than Human’ and African American Literature" Link
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)