Faculty List

* Alphabetical order
* Please check more details about each faculty member at ICU faculty databese (http://researchers.icu.ac.jp/scripts/websearch/) or Faculty Member's Information (http://w3.icu.ac.jp/class/) (on campus only).

*The courses listed here are examples. Depending on the year or semester, there may be changes in the course instructor and whether or not the course is held. ICU students are recommended to check the course offerings on the ICU Portal.

(2014.09.17 update)

ICU Faculty: CGS Staff

ARIMOTO, Takeshi |

Courses taught： Introduction to Cultural Studies

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GILLAN, Matthew A. | Musicology

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HANDA, Atsuko |

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IKEDA, Richiko | Communication Studies

Courses taught： Intercultural Communication

I have an interest in where the connection between Communication and Gender studies lies. One of the challenges in Communication Studies is the illustration of the process of meaning. In Gender studies also, the semantic generation known as 'social roles' and its process needs to be viewed as a problem to be solved - and the same can be said of Communication studies.

IKOMA, Natsumi | Contemporary English Literature; Conceptualization of the body and structure of terror in Women's Literature

Courses taught： History of English Literature II, Approaches to Gender Studies, Literary Theory and Feminism I,II, Contemporary English Literature I, Realism

All forms of knowledge and study are things that have been expressed by humans as `text`, which reflects the subjectivity of the writer and the ideologies and biases of that society and age. As the prejudices and ideas of the reader intervene to create an act of interpretation, and through this twist, I think it is possible to see - not an "objective" or "scientific" "truth" (which does not even exist in the first place) - but a possibility for tolerance and open-mindedness. The perspective of gender is a must when it comes to taking that sort of approach. Will you join us in the search for new possibility for literature?

ITO, Aki | History of Italian Art and History of Costume in Italy

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I would like to decipher the 'ideal dress' of 16th century Italy from the period print collections and the many descriptions of Dress in the essays on Women during that time. Recently, I have been interested in the first female career author, Christine de Pisan, and the way she styled clothing and accessories.

KAMITO, Takehiko | Biology

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I try to incorporate the biological perspective of sex to make the Gender Studies in ICU unique and interdisciplinary.

KATO, Etsuko | Cultural Anthropology

Courses taught： Approaches to Gender Studies, Psychological Anthoropology, Anthropology and Gender Studies

Where there is culture, there are people (and vice versa). And where there are people, there is gender. When "writing culture" professionally, the gender problem cannot be avoided. Additionally, the writer's gender itself has, I feel, a definitive and powerful influence on every step of the process of investigating and writing. Yet, why is it that the majority of the people who are interested in gender studies are women or sexual minorities? CGS wishes for those self-professed "normal" "men" to also approach us, enrich their vocabulary, and gain the ability to speak out about gender.

KIKUCHI, Hideaki | History: Chinese History

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I want to study the women's history of modern China from a new point of view.

KRISTEVA, Tzvetana I. | Japanese Classical Literature, Japanese Literature and Semiotics

Courses taught： Classical Japanese Literature I,II

I am interested in Semiotics of women in Helan era in Japan.

LANGAGER, Mark W. | International Comparative Education: Biliteracy Acquisition and Education for Sustainable Development

Courses taught： Japanese Education in Comparative Perspective

I come from a family of seven children, which was a lot of fun, but I see　overpopulation as one of the most serious problems facing the world. In　addressing this and other global problems, many solutions are rooted in the policy of including women at the decision making table, and that will only be possible through access to education.

MAHER, John C. | Sociolinguistics: Multilingualism in Japan, language and postmodern identity, semiotics, Freudian theory and language,language and politics

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Sociolinguistics: Multilingualism in Japan, language and postmodern identity, semiotics, Freudian theory and language,language and politics.
New ways of talking about social identity have emerged in the postmodern world. Our cultural identity (gender, occupation, ethnicity, religious) can be hybrid, ambiguous, non-essentialist, post-ethnic.

MALARNEY, Shaun | Cultural Anthropology: Medical Anthropology

Courses taught： Anthropological Studies of Inequality

My interests focus on gender and its relationships to ritual, religion, inequality and medicine.

MORIKI, Yoshie | Cultural anthropology and demography: Non-marriage, low fertility, population aging

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I have been examining the issue of sexuality and reproduction from both　cultural and demographic perspectives. I am interested in the impacts of people's value systems, such as the cultural concept of and expectation for gender, on the changing patterns of population structures.

NASU, Kei | History: Religion, culture and society in early modern England

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Examining the workings and representation of gender and sexuality is crucial for understanding the past society.

NISHIMURA, Mikiko | Sociology of Education, International Educational Development

Courses taught： Development and Education, Sociology of Education

Gender cuts across the forms, processes, and outcomes of education and yet the international goals often simplify the gender issue to be measured by quantitative indicators such as enrollment and literacy rates. I have discussed such contradiction in a recent book entitled Gender and International Educational Development.

OMORI, Sawa | International Politics and Economics, Public Policy

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SIMONS, Christopher. E. J. | English Literature, Shakespeare, English Renaissance literature (poetry and drama), English Romanticism (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), and modern and contemporary British and Irish poetry.

Courses taught： Romanticism

My current research includes work on William and Dorothy Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats (and Irish folklore and mythology), and the uses of mythology and symbolism in contemporary British and Irish poetry. I am interested in the relationship between authorial and social power in women writers, particularly in medieval female poets, Romantic women writers, and contemporary women poets. I am also interested in the evolution of feminism in literature in the works of writers such as Henrik Ibsen and Sylvia Plath.

TAKASAKI, Megumi | Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion

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I would like to understand the multitudinous disparities arising in modern society from an anthropological perspective. By using the basic gender theory approach of incorporating various disparaging viewpoints, I believe it is possible to gain a pluralistic and integrated understanding of society.

TAKAZAWA, Norie | History: Early Modern French History

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My current interest is to analyze the French absolute monarchy, as one case of sovereign states formed in the early modern Europe, through a study on the transformation of social norms and relations like a neighborhood, a conjugal and a parent-child relationships.

ICU Faculty: The College of Liberal Arts

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