Yoko IMA-IZUMI

Ph.D. (Yale University, 1985)

Professor of English and Film Studies

University of Tsukuba

e-mail: imaizumi.yoko.ft@alumni.tsukuba.ac.jp

（2021.11.01)

Research Fields:

●Film Studies (Japanese Film, Korean Film, Chinese Film, Canadian

Film, British Film, Australian Film)

●English Literature (British Romanticism, Victorian Novel)

●Gender Studies

●Comparative Cultural Studies

●Literature and Film

Brief CV:

●Ph.D., Yale University (English Literature), 1985

●Assistant Professor, Nagoya University, 1982-1986

●Associate Professor, Nagoya University, 1986-1990

●Associate Professor, Tsukuba University, 1990-2004

●Professor, Tsukuba University, 2004-present

●Resesarch Fellow

Cambridge University, England, 1988-89

Harvard University, USA, 1992-93

Peking University, China, 1996

Ottawa University, Canada, 2005, 2007, 2008

●included in Marquis Who's Who series

Marquis Who's Who in the World 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

Marquis Who's Who in America 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

Marquis Who's Who in Asia 2007

Teaching Topics:

(1)Comparative Analysis of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Film

Cultures

(2)Cinema: East and West

(3)Literature and Film

(4)Asian TV Commercials

(5)Representations of Women in Visual Arts

Key Words:

Films in Japan, China, and Korea

Films in East and West

English Literature and Film

Comparative Culture and Literature

Film Syntax

Asian TV Commercials

Visual Arts

Composite Art of William Blake

Representations of Women

Teaching Motto:

International Contributions

●Advisor, Ship for the World Youth 2008

Cabinet Office (Gender Equality Bureau)

Teaching "Cross-Cultural Understanding through Film" on Nippon-

Maru Ship for Arabian Peninsula

●International Conferences

Chair, Panel "The Body in Space," International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Hawaii, 2013

Chair, Panel "Film and Literature" International Conference on Education, Hawaii, 2011

Chair, Panel "Madam Butterfly Transplanted," IASA Lisbon, 2007

Chair, Panel "Two Black Rains: Japan and America," International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Hawaii, 2007

Chair, Panel "International Humanities Conference," Beijing, 2006

Chair, Panel "Literature and Film: America and Japan," IASA Ottawa, 2005

Paper, "Blake Studies in Japan," International Conference: Blake in the Orient, Kyoto, 2004

●International Collaborative Research

2007 with Professor Leo Damrosch, Harvard University

2001 with Professor Dai Xingyue, Peking University

1999 with Professor Dai Xingyue, Peking University

1998 with Professor Brigitte Peucker, Yale University

1997 with Professor Leo Damrosch, Harvard University

1996 with Professor Lawrence Buell, Harvard University

1995 with Professor Juliana Bruno, Harvard University

●Support for Overseas Young Scholars

2008 Assistant Professor Kyoku Kou

Inner Mongolia University, China

2006 Assistant Professor Tristanne Connolly

St. Jerome University (Waterloo), Canada

Publications

●Books (13 including co-authored 9 books)

Film Syntax: Shot Analysis of Japanese Film, 2004

Blake's Re-Vision of the Female, 2001

Representations of the Female Body in Literature and FIlm, 1999

Women in Japanese Cinema, 1997

Women ReadingWilliam Blake, Macmillan, 2007

The Reception of Blake in the Orient, Continuum, 2006

Americas' Worlds and the World's Americas, U of Ottawa, 2006

Experimental Phonetics and General Linguistics: Essays in

Honor of Professor Jou, 2006

Voyages of Conception: Essays in English Romanticism,

Kirihara-Shoten, 2005

Transgressing Artist: Reading William Blake Now, 2002

Difference and Identity: Postcolonial Literary Theory, 1997

Cultural Studies of Literature, 1995

Heroes in American Literature, 1991

●Articles (about 50)