(Last updated : 2025-10-10 10:10:23)
  RAVENSCROFT, Claire

   Assistant Professor

   Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
■ Professional Background
1. 2021/12~2026/08 Assistant Professor, Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
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■ Present Specialized Fields
English literature and literature in the English language (Key Word:American Literature and American Studies) 
■ Profile
Claire Ravenscroft is Assistant Professor of American Literature and American Studies at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan.

She teaches in the university’s undergraduate majors in Literature and American Studies, the General Education curriculum, as well as the graduate program in Comparative Culture.

Her research examines the relationship among environment, energy, political economy, and culture, with an emphasis on 20th and 21st Century American Literature. Her book project, Fossil Capitalist Realism: Contemporary Fiction and Climate Inaction, explores how climate change, climate awareness, and climate inaction are represented in contemporary US novels.

She earned her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2020.
■ Main Course Titles
AMS 101, GEH 064, LIT 104, LIT 105, LIT 231, LIT 232, LIT 233, QCAC 509, QCAC 514, QCAC 516
■ Books and Articles
1. Article "Rachel Kushner's 'Bullshit Hagiography'" a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 40(1),pp.67-89 (Single) 2025/04Link
2. Article "Climate Inaction's Ugly Feelings" ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment pp.1-20 (Single) 2024/10Link
3. Article "Teaching Climate Change under Capitalist Realism" The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice  (Collaboration) 2023/11Link
4. Article "Introduction: Marxism and Climate Change" Polygraph 28 (Collaboration) 2020/08Link
5. Other Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice     2022Link
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■ Academic Conference Presentation
1. 2025/07 The Flamethrowers as Biofiction and Petrofiction" (International Autobiography Association European Conference)
2. 2025/05 “Articulating Blackness in Hawai’i and Japan” (Japanese Association for American Studies Annual Conference)
3. 2024/11 “The Lumpenproletariat and the Highway" (Petrocultures Biannual Conference)
4. 2024/03/15 “Main character syndrome: climate inaction and ugly feelings" (American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting)
5. 2023/03/19 "Capitalist realism and fossil fuels in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997)" (American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting)
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■ Lectures
1. 2025/03 "Literary Studies in Environmental Studies: Insights from US Climate Fiction and Film for Interdisciplinary Conversations" (Rice University)
2. 2023/03/22 "Climate Fiction and Climate Inaction"
3. 2022/12/01 “Teaching Climate Change under Capitalist Realism"
4. 2020/10/10 “What is Racial Capitalism?”
5. 2018/11 "Is Capitalism Fossil-Fueled?” (Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy)
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■ Academic Society Memberships
1. American Comparative Literature AssociationLink
2. American Studies AssociationLink
3. Association for the Study of Literature and the EnvironmentLink
4. Japanese Association for American StudiesLink
5. Marxist Literary GroupLink
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■ Educational Achievements
● Practice example of education method
1. 2025/06/02~2025/06/23 Campus exhibit: "“‘The Meaning of Japan’: Du Bois, the Color Line, and the Dream of World-Democracy"
2. 2023/09/01~2023/11/13 Campus film series: "U.S. Society through Science Fiction"
3. 2020/08~2020/12 Pedagogy Training: "Asynchronous Instruction"
4. 2016/08~2017/05 Pedagogy Training: "Teaching Literature"
5. 2019/09~2020/03 Energy Mentor, International Youth Deliberation on Energy Futures
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■ Course Titles
1. LIT 104 History of American Literature 1
2. GEH 064 H1: Climate Justice
3. LIT 105 History of American Literature 2
4. AMS 101 Principles of American Studies
5. LIT 233 American Prose
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■ Teaching Experience
1. ENG 101 Freshman Composition (Special Topic: Environmental Justice)(Instructor, Southeastern Louisiana University)
2. ENG 101 Freshman Composition (Special Topic: James Baldwin)(Instructor, Southeastern Louisiana University)
3. ENG 101 Freshman Composition (Dual Enrollment Program, multiple sections)(Instructor, Southeastern Louisiana University)
4. ENG 102 Critical Reading and Writing (Special Topic: Contemporary Global South Film)(Instructor, Southeastern Louisiana University)
5. ENG 102 Critical Reading and Writing (Dual Enrollment Program, multiple sections)(Instructor, Southeastern Louisiana University)
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■ Professional Achievements
● Special note of person who has experience of business
1. 2024 Peer Reviewer for the academic journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
2. 2024~2025 Recipient of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant (Japan ICU Foundation)
3. 2024 Submission Reviewer for the 18th Biennial Conference on Communication and Environment
4. 2024/11 Chair of the panel “Provocations for change,” Petrocultures Biannual Conference
5. 2024/11 Chair of the panel “Dismantling petro-normativity,” Petrocultures Biannual Conference
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■ Academic Awards
1. 2019 Duke University Horne Award for Excellence in Teaching, Duke University
2. 2018 Duke University Paletz Innovative Course Enhancement Award, Duke University
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■ Research Topics, Funded Research, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
1.   Fossil Capitalist Realism: Contemporary Fiction and Climate Inaction  (Key Word : )
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■ Social Activities
1. 2024/03 "Bargaining for the Common Good: Labor, Unions, and the Environmental Movement"Link
2. 2021/07 "What is the role of unions in the movement for Black lives?”
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■ Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research Researcher Number
90951757