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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, Completed,
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 (Key Word：Women's Writing,the Body,Angela Carter,Feminist Literary Theories,End of Literature,Narrative Monstrosity,Grotesque,Terrorism and Literature,Contemporary Literature)

■ #Main Course Titles

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

■ #Books and Articles

1.	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
2.	Book	The Horrid Looking Glass:Reflections on Monstrocity (Collaboration) 2011/12
3.	Article	"Encounter with the Mirror of the Other: Angela Carter and Her Personal Connection with Japan" (Single) 2017/03
4.	Article	"Wolves and Witches: Sexual Outcasts in Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales" (Single) 2017/03
5.	Article	"Pleasure of Archive Research" (Single) 2016/11
6.	Article	"Healthy" Family and Child Rearing (Single) 2016/09
7.	Article	Gender and modernization in Japan: An Analysis of Tayama Katai's The Quilt (Single) 2012/03
8.	Article	The Proustian Mystery of the Black Swan in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Single) 2008/12
9.	Article	Why do Japanese Ghosts have No Legs? ? Sexualized Female Ghosts and the Fear of Sexuality (Single) 2008
10.	Article	Impossible Love: Angela Carter and Her Analysis of the Sixties (Single) 2006/03
11.	Article	Gender Masquerade: Reflections on Irezumi (Single) 2005/03
12.	Other	Asian Women and Education - Asian, European and Other Perspectives (Collaboration) 2012/05
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■ #Academic Conference Presentation

1.	2018/06/30	"From Orientalist Detachment to Feminist Involvement: Angela Carter's Narrative Transition" (Symposium: Angela Carter and Japan)
2.	2017/03/29	"Monstrous Marionette: The Introspective (Japanese) Fairy Tale of Angela Carter" (Re-Orienting The Fairy Tale)
3.	2017/01/09	Inscrutable? No, Terribly Scrutable: Carter and the Japanese Signs (Fireworks: The Visual Imagination of Angela Carter)
4.	2016/11/12	(CGS/ICC Symposium: Liminal Existence in Art and Literature)
5.	2015/02/14	Ideal Mothers: Missing Mothers" (Idealisation of Mother: Case Studies in Japanese Literature)
6.	2014/09/26	Encounter with the Other: Angela Carter and her Investigation of Womanhood in Japan (Women Writing Across Cultures)
7.	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)
8.	2011/06/03	Separate Ladder: Educated Women's Predicaments in Japan (Asian Women and Education: Asian, European, and Other Perspectives)
9.	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)
10.	2007/05/31	Desire and Literature (The 1st Study Group of Centre for Gender Studies)
11.	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.	2018/04	“Angela Carter: Performance, Performativity, Theatricality” (University of Antwerp)
2.	2018/01	“Angela Carter’s Marionette and Japanese Theatre Tradition” (University of East Anglia)
3.	2017/11	Literature and Gender in Japan (University of East Anglia)
4.	2009/12	On Modern Witches

■ #Academic Society Memberships

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

■ Educational Achievements

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

■ 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.

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

60365525

■ #ORCID

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