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Paul Minford |
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国際教養学部 国際教養学科 |
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教授 |
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- As an Englishman living and working in Japan for over a decade now, with a Japanese wife and two young children growing up with bicultural identities, I have firsthand experience of the politics of cultural representation and a strong personal stake in contesting monolithic models of cultural belonging. My main research field is postcolonial literature, which lends itself well to the exploration of such concerns; my current focus is on cosmopolitan themes in recent British Asian writing. I cover much broader ground in my teaching, with courses on 19th century, modernist and contemporary novels in English, as well as cultural studies seminars that make use of film and TV programs, children’s fantasy and cross-over literature, to help Japanese students engage with issues relevant to contemporary Britain. As a significant part of my job is to support L2 users of English, I also have a strong interest in developments in ESL pedagogy, especially in the application of task-based language learning.
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- 2021/4/01~2022/3/31/Prior to moving from the Department of British and American Studies to the Global Studies Program in the new School of Liberal Arts and Sciences in April 2022, I received a year’s sabbatical (from April 1, 2021 ~ March 31, 2022) which I spent in Cardiff, in the UK, working to provide a more overtly “Global Studies” framework for my literary research by situating it in the interstices of cosmopolitanism and posthumanism, attempting to interrogate the possibility of a “posthuman cosmopolitanism” and to consider the role of literary studies in its articulation. Output for the year is currently in the form of three working papers, in varying degrees of completion, which I plan to publish over the coming 6~18 months:
“Globalization: Major Contours and Implications for the Shaping of Identity” (forthcoming, Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences Musashi University, Vol I, 2023).
“The Cosmopolitan Agenda: Constitutive Features and Metaethical Issues” (Working paper)
“The Posthuman Challenge to Cosmopolitan Normativity: Articulating a Posthuman Cosmopolitanism” (draft pending).
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