Literature and Popular Culture
in the English World
Literature and Popular Culture
in the English World
A two-day symposium sponsored by the British and American Studies Program,
School of Global Studies, Chukyo University
DAY 1: Saturday, March 15th, 2025, Yagoto Campus,
Convention Hall, Annex Building 16, 6F
Opening Remarks (12:50)
Arinori Mori and Christopher J. Armstrong (Chukyo University)
Session 1 (13:00-14:20) Chair: Christopher J. Armstrong (Chukyo University)
Miori Motomori (Chukyo U.),
“Do Employers Value Global Competency? Insights from Aichi-Based Firms”
Terry Wacholtz (Chukyo U.),
“A Comparison of In-Class versus Online Discussion Techniques in American Studies Classes”
Eriko Mishima (Aichi Shukutoku U.),
“The Role of Group Cohesion in College English Classes: Improving Cohesion and Motivation through Cooperative Learning”
Session 2 (14:30-15:50) Chair: Madeline Boulanger (Chukyo University)
Yoko Araki (Keiwa College),
“The Call of the Wild and Its Media Franchise: A Study”
Hideko Sueoka (Manchester Metropolitan U.),
“Contemporary Verse of British Immigrant Poets from Hong Kong”
Hideo Yanagisawa (Meijo U.),
“Representations of Hemingway in the Japanese Anime Lupin the Third”
Keynote Lecture (16:00-17:30)
Dr. David S. Ramsey (Professor Emeritus, Notre Dame Seishin University)
“Stories in Circulation: Nation, Narration, and Money”
Reception (Restaurant Hamayu, Yagoto) (18:00- 20:00)
DAY 2: Sunday, March 16th, 2025, Yagoto Campus,
Convention Hall, Annex Building 16, 6F
Session 3 (10:30-11:50) Chair: Madeline Boulanger (Chukyo University)
Rie Koike (Tokoha U.),
“Colonial Mauritius as ‘Contact Zone’: Renaming Karayuki-san into Indentured Laborers”
Christopher J. Armstrong (Chukyo U.),
“The Short Story’s Moment”
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa (Poet),
“Poetry, Social Activism, and Technology: Past, Present, Future”
Lunch Break (11:50-12:40)
Session 4 (12:40 - 14:00) Chair: Arinori Mori (Chukyo University)
Paul Mason (Aichi Gakuin U.),
“The Roads Less Travelled: Fighting Fantasy as a Literary and Cultural Phenomenon”
Madeline Boulanger (Chukyo U.),
“‘Stepping Out of the Page’: Kate Bush’s Molly Bloom”
Daniel Chesmore (Doshisha International High School),
“Grant us eyes, grant us eyes”: An Analysis of Emergent Narrative in Hidetaka Miyazaki’s Bloodborne
Coffee Break (14:00 - 14:15)
Session 5 (14:15 - 15:45) Chair: Arinori Mori (Chukyo University)
Steven Charles (Chukyo U.),
“Using Pop Culture in the EFL Classroom: TV Shows and Movies as Authentic Models”
Camilo Villaneuva (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies),
“Student Perceptions of Short Stories in a Japanese EFL University Creative Writing Classroom”
Yohei Chiba (Chukyo U.),
“How Our Sentences Are Structured into Data: Algorithmic Frameworks and I. A. Richards in Reading”
Roundtable Discussion on AI in Culture / AI in Teaching and Learning (15:50 - 17:20)
Christopher J. Armstrong, Moderator
Frank Bennett (Associate Professor, retired, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya U.)
Chris Bradford (Chukyo U.)
Closing Remarks and Photos (17:20-17:30)
Arinori Mori and Christopher J. Armstrong
Contact: Arinori Mori (moria@lets.chukyo-u.ac.jp)
Christopher J. Armstrong (cjarms@lets.chukyo-u.ac.jp)
Madeline Boulanger (madelineboulanger@gmail.com)