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IKOMA, Natsumi

Professor

Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University

■ Academic Background

1.	2002/07/10 Degree Acquisition	Durham University, Ph.D.
2.	1998/10～2001/09	〔Doctoral course〕 English Studies, Arts and Humanities Faculty, University of Durham
3.	1997/04～2003/03	English Literature and Language, Graduate School, Division of Letters, Kyoto University, Completed,
4.	1995/10～1996/09	〔Master degree program〕 Contemporary Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University, Completed,
5.	1994/04～1997/03	English Literature and Language, Graduate School, Division of Letters, Kyoto University, Completed,
6.	1989/04～1994/03	English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature, The University of Tokyo, Graduated,
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■ #Professional Background

1.		Master's Course, Comparative Culture Program, Graduate School, School of Arts and Sciences
2.		ID Majors Major: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts
3.		Doctoral Course, Ph. D. Program, Graduate School, School of Arts and Sciences
4.	2014/04～2017/08	Director, Centre for Gender Studies
5.	2010/09～2012/03	Chair, Dept. of Literary Studies, International Christian University

■ #Present Specialized Fields

Gender, European Literature, Literature in general, Japanese Literature, History of thought (Key Word：Women's Writing, the Body, Angela Carter, Feminist Literary Theories, End of Literature, Narrative Monstrosity, Grotesque, Terrorism and Literature, Contemporary Literature, AI and Posthuman)

■ #Main Course Titles

Contemporary British Literature, Feminist Theory, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies

■ #Books and Articles

1.	Book	Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries (Collaboration) 2021
2.	Book	Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Fairy-Tale Adaptations across Cultures pp.113-136 (Collaboration) 2020/08
3.	Book	Seduced by Japan: A Memoir of the Days Spent with Angela Carter with "Her Side of the Story" written by Natsumi Ikoma (Single) 2017/11
4.	Book	Women Writing Across Cultures: Present, Past, Future (Collaboration) 2017/11
5.	Book	Asian Women and Education - Asian, European and Other Perspectives (Collaboration) 2012/05
6.	Book	The Horrid Looking Glass:Reflections on Monstrocity (Collaboration) 2011/12
7.	Article	Transforming into a Doll-Machine: Post-Woman Narrative of Body and Reproducting pp.149-164 (Single) 2019/11
8.	Article	"Encounter with the Mirror of the Other: Angela Carter and Her Personal Connection with Japan" Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 22,pp.77-92 (Single) 2017/03
9.	Article	"Wolves and Witches: Sexual Outcasts in Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales" Gender and Sexuality, Journal of Center for Gender Studies 12,pp.9-26 (Single) 2017/03
10.	Article	"Pleasure of Archive Research" pp.72-76 (Single) 2016/11
11.	Article	"Healthy" Family and Child Rearing (Single) 2016/09
12.	Article	Gender and modernization in Japan: An Analysis of Tayama Katai's The Quilt Gender and Sexuality, Journal of the Center for Gender Studies, ICU pp.5-36 (Single) 2012/03
13.	Article	The Proustian Mystery of the Black Swan in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Contemporary Women's Writing 2(2),pp.pp. 155-173 (Single) 2008/12
14.	Article	Why do Japanese Ghosts have No Legs? ? Sexualized Female Ghosts and the Fear of Sexuality Dark Reflections, Monstrous Reflections: Essays on the Monster in Culture pp.pp.189-200 (Single) 2008
15.	Article	Impossible Love: Angela Carter and Her Analysis of the Sixties Studies in English Literature (47),pp.pp. 143-159 (Single) 2006/03
16.	Article	Gender Masquerade: Reflections on Irezumi Asian Cultural Studies 31,pp.pp. 27-42 (Single) 2005/03
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■ #Academic Conference Presentation

1.	2020/10/09	Gendered Language, Gendered Translation: Problems of Patriarchal Translational Practice in Japan (1st Conference of Angela Carter Society)
2.	2019/10/19	Fantasy as the Narrative of Other: Women in English Literature
3.	2019/09/28	"Anthropological Curiosity or Mere Prurience?": Literary Pilgrimage and Unpacking the Tourist Gaze in Angela Carter's "A Fertility Festival" (At the Crossroad of Doubts: Anthropology and Anglophone Travel Writing)
4.	2019/06/01	Call for Feminist Solidarity and Mutual Empowerment (10th LiberLit Conference Japan)
5.	2019/03/13	Dolls and Humans (Workshop: Angela Carter and Dolls)
6.	2018/06/30	"From Orientalist Detachment to Feminist Involvement: Angela Carter's Narrative Transition" (Symposium: Angela Carter and Japan)
7.	2017/03/29	"Monstrous Marionette: The Introspective (Japanese) Fairy Tale of Angela Carter" (Re-Orienting The Fairy Tale)
8.	2017/01/09	Inscrutable? No, Terribly Scrutable: Carter and the Japanese Signs (Fireworks: The Visual Imagination of Angela Carter)
9.	2016/11/12	(CGS/ICC Symposium: Liminal Existence in Art and Literature)
10.	2015/02/14	Ideal Mothers: Missing Mothers" (Idealisation of Mother: Case Studies in Japanese Literature)
11.	2014/09/26	Encounter with the Other: Angela Carter and her Investigation of Womanhood in Japan (Women Writing Across Cultures)
12.	2013/09/11	Toward the Emergence of New Women’s Leadership: Contemporary Japanese Society with Conflicts of Values (The 2013 CHULA Asian Heritage Forum: The Emergence and Heritage of Asian Women Intellectuals)
13.	2011/06/03	Separate Ladder: Educated Women's Predicaments in Japan (Asian Women and Education: Asian, European, and Other Perspectives)
14.	2010/05/01	End of Literature? : Probing the Meaning of Literature in the Age of Terrorism (Harvard Yenching Institute Literature Symposium: Culture at the Intersection)
15.	2007/05/31	Desire and Literature (The 1st Study Group of Centre for Gender Studies)
16.	2006/09/18	Why do Japanese Ghosts have no legs?: Sexualized Female Ghosts and the Fear of Sexuality (The 4th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil)
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■ #Lectures

1.	2018/11/23	Arrogance of Tolerance: Narrative of Diversity
2.	2018/04/19	“Angela Carter: Performance, Performativity, Theatricality” (University of Antwerp)
3.	2018/01/18	“Angela Carter’s Marionette and Japanese Theatre Tradition” (University of East Anglia)
4.	2017/11/23	Literature and Gender in Japan (University of East Anglia)
5.	2009/12/04	On Modern Witches

■ #Academic Society Memberships

1.	2017	Angela Carter Society
2.	2017	∟ Advisory Board Member
3.	2008～	Contemporary Women's Writing Association
4.	1995/04～	ELSJ

■ Educational Achievements

● Matter that should be mentioned specially in others educational activity
1.	2006/09～2008/03	Director of International Educational Exchange

■ #Teaching Experience

1.	History of English Literature（ICU）

■ Professional Achievements

● Other note that should be mentioned specially on duty
1.		Focuses on gender representations in modern, and contemporary literature (British and Japanese, mainly). Recently patriarchal discourses activated in crises are of my research interest. My longterm research topic is Angela Carter's literary universe.

■ #Academic Awards

1.	1999/10	Department of English Studies, Durham University Departmental Postgraduate Award, Durham University
2.	1998/10	Durham University Durham University Postgraduate Scholarship
3.	1998/10	Overseas Research Students Award
4.	1996/10	British Council British Council Scholarship

■ #Research Topics, Funded Research, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

1.	2019/04～	Japan as Doll Factory: Narrative of Posthuman / Postwoman in, and about Japan (Key Word : )
2.	2017～2018/03	Influence of Japan and Gender Performativity in the Works of Angela Carter (Key Word : )
3.	2012/04～2016/03	Gender Performativity in the Works of Angela Carter (Key Word : )

■ #researchmap Researcher Code

5000029542

■ #Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research Researcher Number

60365525

■ #ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5713-7209