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KANAYAMA RYOTA

Department / Course College of Letters Global Studies Program

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Letters

Academic background
1.	1987/03 Degree Acquisition	│ Graduate School, Tokyo Metropolitan University M.A.in English
2.	～1985/03	English Department │ Faculty of Foreign Studies │ Osaka University of Foreign Studies │ Graduated
3.	～1990/03	Doctorial Course │ Course in English │ Graduate School of Humanities │ Graduate School, Tokyo Metropolitan University │ Accomplished credits for doctoral program

Business career
1.	2016/04 ～	Professor │ College of Letters, │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2014/04 ～ 2016/03	Associate Professor │ Faculty of Education, │ Yamato University
3.	2007/04 ～ 2011/09	Associate Professor │ Faculty of Humanities, │ Niigata University
4.	1994/01 ～ 2007/03	Assistant Professor │ Faculty of Humanities, │ Niigata University
5.	1990/04 ～ 1993/12	Lecturer │ Faculty of Humanities, │ Niigata University

Committee and society
1.	2019/06 ～ 2022/06	The English Literary Society of Japan
2.	2009/10 ～ 2010/03	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science First-Stage Referee, Grants-in-Aid Project
3.	2008/10 ～ 2009/03	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science First-Stage Referee, Grants-in-Aid Project
4.	2008/05 ～ 2008/07	Japan Society for Multicultural Relations Referee
5.	2005/10 ～ 2011/09	Japan Branch, The Dickens Fellowship Counciler

Research activities
1.		The Dickens Fellowship of Japan
2.		The English Literary Society of Tokyo Metropolitan University
3.		The Gaskell Society of Japan
4.		George Eliot Fellowship of Japan
5.		The Victorian Studies Society of Japan
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Qualification and license
1.	1987	Teacher's License for Junior High School: English Teacher's License for Senior High School: English
2.	1984	EIKEN Grade 1

Subject of research
1.	Research in Victorian Novel and Drama. Aspects of Englishness in Popular Theatre with Special Reference to The Savoy Operas.

Research summary
Study in Victorian Novels and Popular Theatres My research mainly refers to racial and religious views as well as class consciousness seen in Victorian novels and popular theatres, and focuses on how British / English people's ethnic identity has been established.

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Present specialized field
Literature in English (Keyword：Victorian Literature, British Popular Theatre, The Savoy Operas, Englishness)

Books
1.	2020/12/25	Dickens and the Anatomy of Evil: Sesquicentennial Essays │ ,pp.79-96
2.	2018/12	Dickens and Gissing: Subterranean Similarities and Differences │ ,pp.91-106

Papers
1.	2024/01	Where does "Englishman" go?---how Englishness is ambiguously represented in H.M.S Pinafore │ ,pp.23-46
2.	2017/11	From Patience to Utopia Limited ---Wilde, America, Ireland │ (16),pp.77-93
3.	2016/11	[Review⑨]Richard Pearson, Victorian Writers and the Stage: The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson │ (39),pp.53-58
4.	2016/08	[Review⑧]Mitsuharu Matsuoka ed., Evil and its Variations in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell: Sesquicentennial Essays │ (26),pp.87-94

Academic conference presentation
1.	1996/07/20	The Symbolism of the mist in Great Expectations
2.	1996/04/03	The Amazons in the Empire

Teaching achievements

●Practical Example of Education Technique

1.	2016/07 ～ 2016/07	How to improve the way in which the academic subjects offered by the English Department are taught.

●Other Special Instructions about Teaching Activities

1.	2021/11/10	Why do you avoid wearing a mask? : the background of divided America
2.	2021/07/29	Where are Samurai and Geisha?
3.	2021/06/18	Victorianism is observable around you
4.	2020/11/26	Why do you avoid wearing a mask? : the background of divided America
5.	2018/11/29	Trumpism and Brexit observed in the context of Anglo-American Literature
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Department laboratory expense researcher number
70224590

researchmap Researcher code
B000236989