English and American Literature

Overview

The Department of English and American Literature covers fields related to English and American literature as well as English language studies. It is built upon a long tradition of valuable international contributions in disciplines that include book history and contemporary literary theory. In the two-year master’s program, students acquire a foundation in the discipline. The doctoral program culminates in a dissertation for which students regularly receive advice from academic staff members. Our rich curriculum is composed entirely of electives, so students, in consultation with their supervisor, can take courses that best suit their research interest. We maintain a high standard of research, inviting eminent international researchers from Japan and overseas to lecture and also to serve as external examiners for dissertations. Doctoral dissertations—and even some master’s theses—are often published, not uncommonly in international scholarly journals as well as in refereed journals of the English Literary Society of Japan and other academic societies.

Faculty

Name/Position

Department/Specialty/Research Interest/Publication

  • INOUE, Ippei
    Professor

    English and American Literature
    Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Linguistics Communicator

    Specializes in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and sociopragmatics, with a primary focus on English and Japanese. Research explores the globalization and localization of English, particularly in the translation and adaptation of Japanese language products (e.g., anime, news, business documents). Publications in these fields propose the Ecology of Communication perspective, which emphasizes the social, economic, and technological dimensions of language use. In the digital era, English serves as a mediating language for relay translation across business, entertainment, and news discourses. In addition to academic research, actively engages as a linguistics communicator, raising awareness about language-related issues and fostering dialogue on the role of language in society. This includes exploring how linguistic practices are shaped by globalization, digitalization, AI and cross-cultural interaction.

    Publication
    • 『英語の思考法ー話すための文法・文化レッスン』（ちくま新書、2021）
    • 『グローバル・コミュニケーションのための英語学概論』（慶應義塾大学出版会、2015）
    • 『社会言語学』（編著、朝倉書店、2017）
    • 『伝わるしくみと異文化間コミュニケーション』（南雲堂、1999）
    • 『ことばの生態系ーコミュニケーションは何でできているか』（慶應義塾大学出版会、2005）
  • OGUSHI, Hisayo
    Professor

    English and American Literature
    American Literature, Women's Literature, Gender Studies

    My main research interests is in works by 19th-century female authors in American literature. Additionally, I am interested in works that depict issues related to gender and sexuality, as well as the struggles faced by people on the social margins. I am also interested in the influence of American culture and literature on Japanese shojo culture from the Meiji period through the 1970s.

    Publication
    • 『ハイブリッド・ロマンス：アメリカ文学における捕囚と混淆の伝統』（松柏社、2002）
    • 『立ちどまらない少女たち：＜少女マンガ＞的想像力のゆくえ』（松柏社、2021）
    • “Little House in the Far East: The American Frontier Spirit and Japanese Girls’ Comics” The Japanese Journal of American Studies 27 (2016)
    • "American Literature in Japanese Shojo Comics." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature.  May 29, 2020. Oxford UP.
    • 共編著『アメリカ文学と大統領––文学史と文化史』（南雲堂、2023）
  • SATO, Mitsushige
    Professor

    English and American Literature
    American Literature

    My research interests range from the Colonial era to the American Renaissance. I have published articles on the Puritans in America, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry David Thoreau as well as a book on Thoreau's Walden.

    Publication
    • 『『ウォールデン』入門講義』金星堂、2019年。
    • テリー・テンペスト・ウィリアムス『大地の時間　アメリカの国立公園、わが心の地形図』（共訳）伊藤詔子、岩政伸治、佐藤光重、彩流社、2019年。
    • 「フランクリンとアングロ・アメリカ帝国の夢――印紙条例の成立前後に見る国民感情―」『アメリカ研究』47号、2013年、1－20頁。発行　アメリカ学会。
    • “The Puritan Hall of Fame: Anne Bradstreet and the Renaissance Art of Memory.” Studies in English Literature (English Number 2000): 55-66. 発行　日本英文学会
    • 「ポーク政権と文学ーーホーソーン、メルヴィル、ソローの場合」巽孝之監修、大串尚代、佐藤光重、常山菜穂子編集『アメリカ文学と大統領ーー文学史と文化史』南雲堂、2023年、101－20頁。
  • TAKAHASHI, Isamu
    Professor

    English and American Literature
    English Literature between the 18th and 20th Centuries; Modern Fantasy Literature

    I am interested in English poetry and prosody, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, British medievalism, and modern fantasy literature as its development.

    Publication
    • 「怠惰の詩 Hours of Idleness」『バイロン事典』日本バイロン協会・編（東京・音羽書房鶴見書店、2024年6月）172－75ページ
    • 「二〇世紀カトリック詩人としてのトールキン」『ユリイカ 総特集Ｊ・Ｒ・Ｒ・トールキン 没後50年 異世界ファンタジーの帰還』2023年11月臨時増刊号（55巻14号）176－90ページ
    • 「永遠の墓所　バイロン、シェリーのローマ」『ローマ　外国人芸術家たちの都』佐藤直樹・編、西洋近代の都市と芸術1（東京・竹林舎、2013年10月）303–21ページ
    • 松田隆美、原田範行、髙橋勇・編著『中世主義を超えて イギリス中世の発明と受容』（東京・慶應義塾大学出版会、2009年3月）
    • ウィリアム・ブレイズ『書物の敵』髙橋勇・訳、髙宮利行・監修（東京・八坂書房、2004年10月）
  • TOKUNAGA, Satoko
    Professor

    English and American Literature
    Medieval English Literature, History of the Book, Bibliography

    My research interests include book production and literary culture in late medieval England.

    Publication
    • Production and Provenance: Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula, ed. by John Goldfinch, Takako Kato, and Satoko Tokunaga, Library of the Written Word, 123 (Leiden: Brill, 2025)
    • 『神・自然・人間の時間ー古代・中近世のときを見つめて』徳永聡子編 (慶應義塾大学出版会, 2024)
    • 『旅するナラティヴー西洋中世をめぐる移動の諸相』大沼由布・徳永聡子編（知泉書館, 2022）
    • Caxton's Golden Legend, 2 vols, ed. by Mayumi Taguchi, John Scahill and Satoko Tokunaga, EETS OS 355, 357 (Oxford: OUP, 2020-21)/li>
    • Incunabula on the Move: The Production, Circulation and Collection of Early Printed Books, ed. by Ed Potten and Satoko Tokunaga (2012 [for 2014])
  • HARADA, Noriyuki
    Professor

    English and American Literature
    English Literature (Early Modern and Modern), Comparative Literature, Cultural History of Book and Publication, English Literary Education

    My major research subject is early modern and modern English literature; in particular, I am interested in English novels from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first century. My researches also include some related areas: comparative studies in Western literary movements, translation and adaptation of English literature in Japan, the relationship between the development of the English novel and the history of book production, and English literary education from the historical point of view.

    Publication
    • 『「ガリヴァー旅行記」徹底注釈（注釈篇）』（共著, 岩波書店, 2013).
    • 『風刺文学の白眉―「ガリバー旅行記」とその時代』（NHK出版, 2016).
    • 『セクシュアリティとヴィクトリア朝文化』（共編著, 彩流社, 2016).
    • “Literature, London, and Lives of the English Poets,” London and Literature, 1603-1901 (共著) (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), pp. 65-78.
    • "Johnson, Biography, and Modern Japan," Johnson in Japan（共著）(Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell UP, 2020), pp. 27-40.
  • HOTTA, Ryuichi
    Professor

    English and American Literature
    History of English and Historical Linguistics

    My main areas of research are the history of English and the mechanism of language change with special attention to the questions of how and why language changes. Questions have never ceased to arise since I first addressed the matter of the nominal plural -s in English several years ago. My recent research questions include the history of English spelling and the historical development of "diatonic" stress alternation (such as REcord for noun and reCORD for verb).

    Publication
    • Hotta, Ryuichi. "The Spread of the *s*-Plural in Early Middle English: Its Origin and Development." *Studies in English Literature* 79.2 (2002): 123--42.（2002年，日本英文学会第25回新人賞佳作受賞）
    • Hotta, Ryuichi. *The Development of the Nominal Plural Forms in Early Middle English*. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo, 2009.（2010年，日本中世英語英文学会松浪奨励賞（佳作）受賞）
    • 堀田 隆一　『英語史で解きほぐす英語の誤解 --- 納得して英語を学ぶために』　中央大学出版部，2011年．
    • Hotta, Ryuichi. "The Diatonic Stress Shift in Modern English." *Studies in Modern English* 29 (2013): 1--20.（2013年，近代英語協会優秀学術奨励賞受賞）
    • 堀田 隆一　『英語の「なぜ？」に答えるはじめての英語史』　研究社，2016年．