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NAKAMURA Hitomi

Department / Course College of Letters Global Studies Program

Title / Position Associate Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of International Language and Culture Studies
2.	Graduate School of Letters

Academic background
1.	～2014/03	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Humanities Major │ Graduate School of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University │ Completed
2.	～2012/11	M. Phil. in Irish Writing │ School of English │ Trinity College, Dublin. │ Completed

Business career
1.	2024/04/01 ～ 2025/03/31	Visiting Researcher │ Faculty of Arts │ KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
2.	2017/04/01 ～	Associate Professor │ College of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University

Committee and society
1.	2023/04 ～ 2024/03	IASIL JAPAN Conference Host
2.	2021/04 ～	The English Literary Society of Japan, Kansai treasurer
3.	2019/09 ～	Kansai Irish Studies Society Secretary General
4.	2018/04 ～	Japan-Ireland Society Member of Editorial Board

Research activities
1.		International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
2.		The English Literary Society of Japan
3.		The Ritsumeikan Society of English and American Literature
4.		The Japan-Ireland Society

Present specialized field
Literature in English, Literature in general

Books
1.	2020/08	The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin co-translated into Japanese with Yu Okubo and Hiromitsu Koiso │ (Co-authored)
2.	2020/04	Eds. Hiroko Ikeda and Kazuo Yokouchi. Irish Literature in the British Context and Beyond (Peter Lang) │ ,pp.139-156 (Co-authored)
3.	2020/03	『英語文学の諸相――立命館大学英米文学会論集』 │ ,pp.97-111 (Co-authored)
4.	2015/12	『英語と文学、教育の視座』 │ ,pp.63-74 (Co-authored)

Papers
1.	2022/05	“An Example of Dissidence”: A Reflection on Eavan Boland’s Reading of Patrick Kavanagh │ ABEI Jounal │ 23 (2) (Sole-authored)
2.	2020/01	On Realism of "Place" in Michael McLaverty's Call My Brother Back │ 『立命館英米文学』 │ ,pp.19-33 (Sole-authored)
3.	2019/03	【Book Review】William Trevor's Two Lives and Colm Tóibín's Nora Webster, translated into Japanese by Nobuaki Tochigi │ Eire: Irish Studies │ ,pp.90-95 (Sole-authored)
4.	2017/03	Patrick Kavanagh and "Ulster" │ Eire: Irish Studies │ 36,pp.65-80 (Sole-authored)
5.	2017/01	Benedict Kiely and the Partition of Ireland: A Reading of Land without Stars │ 『立命館英米文学』 │ ,pp.21-33 (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/09	Exploring "Irish Poetry": Insights from Literary Magazines of the 1940s to Early 1950s (Japan-Ireland Society Literature Study Group Meeting)
2.	2022/09	"What we offer the people is Life": On Kavanagh's Weekly (Kansai Irish Studies Society)
3.	2019/12	Patrick Kavanagh and the Idea of "Traditions" (Symposium: Poets from Ulster and the idea of "Traditions") (Japan-Ireland Society Conference 2019)
4.	2019/03	"Shancoduff" Revisited: Patrick Kavanagh and the Idea of Place (Symposium: Modern Irish Poetry / Hiroko Ikeda, Mariko Nishitani, Hitomi Nakamura) (The Kyoto Humanities Conference: Irish Literature in the British Context)
5.	2017/12	Michael McLaverty and the Idea of "Place": A Reading of Call My Brother Back (Japan-Ireland Society Conference 2017)
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Other research achievements
1.	2024/02	Exploring "Irish Poetry": Insights from Literary Magazines of the 1940s to Early 1950s (Japan-Ireland Society Newsletter No. 116)
2.	2022/12	[essay] On Catherine Walsh's Optic Verve (Right Margin)
3.	2022/03	[E to J translation] Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal, "My Days in Hospital" (TRIVIUM)
4.	2020/02	[report] John Montague and Okinawa / Mariko Nishitani and Hitomi Nakamura (co-authored) (Japan-Ireland Society Newsletter No. 105)
5.	2019/12	[essay] Close Encounter of Poetry: The Poetry of Stephen James Smith (Te-watashi No. 7)
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Activity in society
1.	2018/11	Translation of Kevin Barry's Short Stories (in excerpt) / European Literature Festival 2018
2.	2018/11	[lecture] After Yeats: On Imagination of Irish Writing (Ritsumeikan Special Saturday Lectures)
3.	2018/08	Rhyme and Rhythm: Irish Poetry in Japanese Translation (Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation)
4.	2018/05	[lecture] Oscar Wilde and "The Happy Prince" (Asahi Culture Center, Kawanishi)
5.	2017/11	[lecture and reading] Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (Kobunsha New Translations of Classics Library) (Montag Booksellers, Kyoto)
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Research exchange preferred theme
1.	Irish Literature, Irish Studies, Irish Language, Poetry, Literary Translation, Literature in a Global Age

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