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  SIMONS, Christopher E. J.

   Senior Associate Professor

   Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
■ Academic Background
1. 2004/07
Degree Acquisition		 Lincoln College, University of Oxford, Ph.D
2. 1999/08
Degree Acquisition		 University of Toronto, M.A.
3. 1997/06/05
Degree Acquisition		 Harvard University, B.A.
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■ Professional Background
1. 2023/04 Lecturer, Adjunct Professor (Literature and Poetics), Hosei University GIS
2. 2014/04～ Senior Associate Professor, Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
3. 2008/09～2014/03 Associate Professor, Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
4. 2007/04～2010/03 Lecturer, Adjunct Professor (Literature and History), Keio University, Faculty of Law, Hiyoshi Campus
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■ Present Specialized Fields
European literature, Literature in English, History of Europe and America (Key Word：British Romantic Poetry; British Early Modern Drama; English Poetry; Science and Magic in Literature; Contemporary British and Irish Poetry; Gender Studies in English Poetry) 
■ Profile
I am a British-Canadian academic and poet specialising in early modern and Romantic-period British poetry and drama. I am currently Senior Associate Professor of British literature and creative writing at International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo. My teaching covers British literature from its origins in Anglo-Saxon poetry to contemporary literature, with a particular focus on poetry and verse drama. My research focuses on three periods: British Romanticism (primarily Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats); Shakespeare and early modern poetry and drama; and modern and contemporary Anglo-Irish poetry from Yeats to the present.

At ICU, I am currently the director of the Peace Research Institute (PRI). I am a former director of the Research Institute for Christianity and Culture (ICC); and a member and former steering committee member of the Centre for Gender Studies (CGS).

In addition to peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, my poetry and criticism have appeared in a range of publications including the Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, P N Review, Oxford Poetry, Magma, The Liberal, The May Anthology, Isis, NOON: the journal of the short poem, and Tokyo Poetry Journal. I have published three full-length verse collections with Isobar Press, Japan’s leading English-language poetry press, most recently Flight Risk (2021) (ISBN 978-4907359362). My major poetry awards include second place in the 2009 Academi-Cardiff International Poetry Competition and being twice listed for Canada’s CBC Literary Prize (2009 and 2010). In 2003, I held the Harper-Wood Studentship in Creative Writing from St. John’s College, Cambridge. I am a former Editor of the Poetry Book Society, London, where I edited their quarterly magazine, the Bulletin.
■ Main Course Titles
British Romantic Poetry (especially Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats); Early Modern Poetry and Drama (Greene, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton); Poetry and Poetics; Gender and Sexuality Studies in Poetry
■ Books and Articles
1. Book Sons of Demons: Magical Poetics and Masculinity in English Poetry from Shakespeare to Yeats   (Single) 2024/09
2. Article Peter Bell’s Professions Romanticism 29(3),pp.226-238 (Single) 2023/11
3. Book Flight Risk   (Single) 2021/09Link
4. Article Wordsworth’s Spenserian Poem The Charles Lamb Bulletin 173 (Single) 2021/06
5. Book The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth   (Collaboration) 2014/01
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■ Academic Conference Presentation
1. 2023/10/14 Isobar Press Ten-Year Anniversary Reading (Japan Writers Conference 2023)
2. 2023/08/07 Magical poetics and masculinity in Wordsworth’s 'The Egyptian Maid' (Wordsworth Summer Conference 2023)
3. 2021/10/15 (Japan Writers Conference)
4. 2020/12/14 Performance and Self-Creation: LGBTQ+ Performers from the Early Modern Stage to Tokyo Nichoume (Centre for Gender Studies Lecture and Exhibition)
5. 2020/11/02 Making it Up: Conflict and Peacebuilding in Science Fiction Filmmaking (Geneva Peace Week 2020)
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■ Lectures
1. 2023/10/14 Lyric to Song, Song to Lyrics: Song Forms and Repetitive Forms in Lyric Poetry (Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan)
2. 2022/10/16 Here We Go Again: Rhetorical Figures of Repetition in English Poetry (Toukai University, Shounan Campus, Kanagawa)
3. 2020/02/20 Tradition and Innovation in Wordsworth’s Narrative Poetry: Wordsworth’s Spenserian Poem (Grasmere, UK)
4. 2017/02/23 Wordsworth and William Rowan Hamilton (Grasmere, UK)
5. 2013/02 Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson (Rydal Hall, Grasmere, UK)
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■ Academic Society Memberships
1. 2021/09～2022/04 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of English, Cambridge University
2. 2010/07 The Wordsworth Conference Foundation: TrusteeLink
3. 2015/10 Japan Writers Conference
4. 2014/09～2015/08 Visiting Scholar, Lincoln College, Oxford
5. 2016/04 World Haiku Member
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■ Educational Achievements
● Practice example of education method
1. 2010/01～ Digital Film Projects
2. 2008～ Computer-based learning
● Matter that should be mentioned specially in others educational activity
1. 2011/04～ ICU Creative Writing Club
2. 2008/09～ ICU 'English Drama on Film' Seminars
3. 2006/09～2012/06 ICU Wing Tsun Kung Fu and Self-Defence Seminars
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■ Academic Awards
1. 2015/09 The Bridport Poetry Prize: Commendation (Commendation (Monetary Prize) for 'The Kung-Fu Master’s Résumé')
2. 2011/02 CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Literary Contest 2010: longlisted (CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Literary Contest 2010: longlisted for pamphlet 'Progress Bar')
3. 2010/10 The tall-lighthouse Poetry Pamphlet Competition: shortlisted (The tall-lighthouse Poetry Pamphlet Competition: shortlisted for poetry chapbook 'About Time')
4. 2010/02 CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Literary Contest, 2009: shortlisted
5. 2009/08 Arvon Foundation Advanced Poetry Course: Grant Recipient
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■ Research Topics, Funded Research, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
1. 2020/03～2024/03  The Influences of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Representations of the ‘Virtuoso’ on English Romantic Poetry  (Key Word : )
2. 2015/04～2019/03  Between Scholasticism and Science: the Character of the ‘Virtuoso’ in the Poetry of William Wordsworth  (Key Word : )
3. 2012/04～2014/03  Antiquarianism in the Poetry of William Wordsworth  (Key Word : )
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■ Social Activities
1. 2007/02～2008/02 Tokyo Marathon
2. 2001/09～2006/09 Cambridge University Wing Tsun Kung Fu Society
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■ Exhibitions, Concerts and Athletic Meets
1. 2020/12/14～2020/12/18 Performance and Self-Creation: LGBTQ+ Performers in Tokyo
2. 2023/01/20～2023/02/03 Fukushima Narratives
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■ Websites
   Wordsworth Conference Foundation Homepage
   C. E. J. Simons Photography
■ Works
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■ Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research Researcher Number
80527143