Organiser

TRANSITION

Transition: Forum for Interdisciplinary Studies into Modernity (TFISM) is a non-institutional platform for interdisciplinary conversations, exploring the idea of 'modernity' in its diverse fields of cultural studies. The organisation was initiated by three post-doctoral researchers who acquired their doctoral professions in English and Related Literature and History of Art at the University of York. They organised an earlier interdisciplinary forum, entitled “Reflecting/Reflected Modernity” in 2021. With the scope of 'modernity', TFISM engaged in intercultural sites, where understandings of modernity required specific contexts for embodying its dynamic, transforming, and reshaping entities. The term 'transition' suggests this ongoing process for identifying 'modern' as artificially made with relative matters, rather than a chronological frame of genre.

Kazuki Inoue

Kazuki Inoue is a research associate at the University of Tokyo. He finished his PhD in the English and Related Literature department at the University of York in September 2021. The title of his PhD thesis is ‘Ghost Psychology’ in T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats, which recontexualises these two poets in the complex intellectual climate surrounding spiritualism, psychology, and a Japanese traditional performance called ‘Noh theatre’. His publications include ‘T. S. Eliot, Myth and Crime: Mystery in The Waste Land and Murder in the Cathedral’, T. S. Eliot Review (2018), a book chapter ‘Talking of “You” and “I”―T. S. Eliot, a Poet as a Spirit Medium’ (in Japanese; 2022), and ‘“Nothing again Nothing”: The Influence of Masaharu Anesaki’s Psychical Buddhism on T. S. Eliot’s Philosophical and Literary Imagination', Religion & Literature (Forthcoming). He received a grant from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from 2021 to 2022, and is currently working on a book project based on his thesis. He was a committee member of the Centre for Modern Studies (Cmods) at the University of York and a co-organiser of ‘Reflecting/Reflected Modernity: Sites of Interface between the Occidental and the Oriental’ (2021, University of York), and ‘Religion, Spiritualism and Occultism in Irish Literature from the Nineteenth Century to the Present’ (2022, University of York, University of Tokyo, and EHU Nineteen (Edge Hill). He is currently a member of the committee and the editorial board of the T. S. Eliot Society of Japan.

Marte Stinis

Marte Stinis completed her PhD at the University of York in 2021, focusing on the intersections between art and music in the second half of the nineteenth century. Her research explores the aesthetic importance of music for the visual arts, particularly within the movement of Aestheticism in Victorian Britain. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Paul Mellon Centre for British Studies, London, where she is furthering her research in order to publish her book. Her research interests also include imperialism and Victorian Britain, capitalism and the arts, music, art and the senses, synaesthesia, and the aesthetics of reception.

Marte consistently contributes to conferences, both as speaker and organiser, including the annual Association of Art History (AAH) Conference, Antiquity and Immersivity (2021), Reflecting/Reflected Modernity (2021), William Blake and the Idea of the Artist (2019), and Reassessing Burne-Jones (2019). She has published widely in established academic journals, such as Journal of Victorian Culture and Nineteenth-Century Contexts.

Louise Yang

Louise Yu-jui Yang completed her PhD in history of art at the University of York. She is an initiator and co-organiser of the ICOM UK’s Student and Emerging Professional. Her current research project ‘Art and Craft as a Non-Dualism: The Japanese Mingei Movement from a Taiwanese Perspective’ examines the concept of craft, which has been previously explored by identifying its ‘non-art’ properties, projecting imperialism within European art history’s narratives of Others and its influence in non-European cultures’ acquisition of ‘art’. Louise is a holder of the 2021 Kuo Hsueh-Hu Award issued by the National Museum of History, Taiwan, for only one researcher every two years.

Louise holds MAs in History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent and Museum Studies at the Taipei National University of Art. She was a researcher at the Museum Preparatory Department of Taipei Lungshan Temple and a conservator specialising in paper works at Taipei Conservation Center. Her publications include journals, anthologies and quarterly columns covering museum studies, art history, heritage conservation, and material culture studies. She initiated academic activities covering subjects of modern and contemporary art, including ‘Reflecting/reflected Modernity: Sites of Interface Between the Occidental and the Oriental’ and ‘Earthlings: Anthropocene Art Talks’ in 2021.