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)