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Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters Tohoku University

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Associate Professor TINK James

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My short biography

I was born in England and grew up in London. I majored in English literature and history and defended a Ph.D. thesis on English literature of the 17th century. Before joining Tohoku University, I gave lectures in various universities in Tokyo. In my free time I like to study Japanese history and go sightseeing.

  • Research, History
  • Books, papers, etc.
  • Courses
    General Education: English C
    Undergraduate: English Literature and Linguistics (Introductory Reading); English Literature (Reading)
    Graduate: English Literature (Advanced Seminar)
    Personal History
    1989 Graduated from the University of East Anglia
    1999 Completed the doctoral program in English literature at the University of Sussex
    2004-2007 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Chuo University
    2007-2010 Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Women’s Christian University
    2010 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University (current position)
    Degree
    Ph.D．(English Literature)
    Field
    English Literature; Literary Theory
    Research Subject
    Early modern English literature, including works by Shakespeare and Milton;
    English poetry and poetics;
    English literature in the 20th century
    Keywords
    Shakespeare; English poetry; literary criticism; literary theory
    Affiliation
    American Comparative Literature Association; Asian Shakespeare Association; International Shakespeare Association; The English Literary Society of Japan; The Shakespeare Society of Japan; Tohoku Association for Romantic Studies
  • Books
    Seeing Animals After Derrida, Rowan and Littlefield, 2017 (editor; with Sarah Bezan)
    Academic Papers
    "Strangers, Citizens and Saints in Shakespeare's London," in London and Literature: 1603-1901, Eds. Barnaby Ralph, Angela Kikue Davenport, and Yui Nakatsuma, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 1-16
    "The Pieties of the Death Sentence in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go," n Parallax 78, 2016, 22-36
    "Staging Timon of Athens in the Downturn," in Shakespeare Studies (Korea), vol. 50, no. 5, 2015, 1-15
    "Active and Contemplative Labour in The Tempest" in Prismatic Shakespeare from the Renaissance to the Twenty-First Century, Kinseido, 2013, 76-88

Research

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