Specialized field

• イギリス文学、イギリス文化、ポスト・コロニアル文学

Charge subject in this year

• Undergraduate/Global Studies Seminar 2、副専攻ゼミナール2、Global Literatures in English 2、卒業論文ゼミナール2、Global Studies Seminar 1、Introduction to Critical Thinking、副専攻ゼミナール1、Global Literatures in English 1、Study Abroad、Capstone Project Pre-Seminar/Capstone Project Seminar 1、Capstone Project、Capstone Project Seminar/Capstone Project Seminar 2、Global Service Learning B1、Global Service Learning A1、卒業論文ゼミナール1
• Graduate/イギリス文学研究2、欧米文化研究指導演習2、イギリス文学専門演習2、イギリス文学研究1、欧米文化研究指導演習1、イギリス文学専門演習1

Charge subject in the past

Message

• 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.

Researcher Information

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Degree

• Oxford University (Magdalen College)/MPhil Economics
• Oxford University (Magdalen College)/BA Classics and English

Academic Background

• 2008/武蔵大学准教授、現在に至る
• 2005/武蔵大学専任講師
• 2002/日本・スカンジナビア環境会議事務局にCIRとして協力（Coordinator for International Relations）（?2004年）
• 2002/日本銀行に英文刊行物の翻訳者・校閲者として協力
• 2001/Research Associate　（研究員）Liverpool Research Group in Macroeconomics（?2002年）

Career

Academic Society and Social Activity

Social Activity

• 日本銀行に英文刊行物の翻訳者・校閲者として協力
• 日本・スカンジナビア環境会議事務局にCoordinator for International Communications として協力

Committee Career

Reward

Bibliography

Academic Thesis

• The Cosmopolitan Agenda: Constitutive Features and Metaethical Implications/Paul Minford/Sole Author/Musashi Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences/2024/03
• Globalization: Major Contours and Implications for the Imagining of Identities/Paul Minford/Sole Author/Musashi Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences/2023/03
• Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Its Cosmopolitan Imaginary/Paul Minford/Sole Author/The Journal of Human and Cultural Sciences/2018/04
• What's in an "S"? Towards a Pedagogy for "Global Literature(s) in English"/Paul Minford/Sole Author/The Journal of Human and Cultural Sciences/2016/11
• Pessimism about the Jurisgenerative Effects of Human Rights: Ishiguro's Bleak Cosmopolitan Vision in Never Let me Go/Paul Minford/The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2013, Official Conference Proceedings/2013/05

Other Achievement

Conference

• Pessimism about the Jurisgenerative Effects of Human Rights: Ishiguro's Bleak Cosmopolitan Vision in Never Let Me Go/Paul Minford/The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2013
• Contesting the Sovereignty of the Particular: Never Let Me Go and Ishiguro’s Cosmopolitan Vision/Paul Minford/Voice of Humanities Conference, Cardiff University

Works

Competitive research funds

Other

• 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).

Example of Education Method

• Task-based and context-based language learning. Studying literature and culture through film. Techniques for academic writing and presentation in English. Extensive reading. E-learning as a tool for guided self-study./1994

Created Textbooks

• "Harry and the Shadow" : 中学2年生、3年生のために単独で執筆した29課よりなる英語読解力養成のための教材

Special Instructions About Experienced Worker

• 武蔵大学国際センター(センター専門員および留学準備講座の担当)/2007/04
• 武蔵大学国際センター(センター員およびDirector of East Asian Studies Program)/2005/04/～/2007/03

Other

• 中学教員対象の英語教育講習会(長野市教育委員会主催）の開催に講師として協力。