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Associate Professor RUNNER, JACOB WAYNE
Faculty, Affiliation
Institute of Liberal Arts and Science Faculty of Foreign Language Studies
College and School Educational Field
Laboratory
General Education (409)
Academic Background
【Academic background(Doctoral/Master's Degree)】
University of Nottingham Doctor Comparative Literature
University of St Andrews Master Mediaeval English
【Academic background(Bachelor's Degree)】
University of Vermont
Aoyama Gakuin University
Career
Year & Month of Birth
Academic Society
International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England
The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies
Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland
Grateful Dead Studies Association
Award
○Cultures, Languages and Area Studies Studentship Award(2017)
Specialities
English Literature、Japanese literature
Speciality Keywords
Comparative Literature,Scripts,Old English,Multilingualism,Japanese Medievalism,TESOL
Research Themes
Books
- Jacob W. Runner Multiple Scripts and Narrative: Medieval English in Conversation with Modern Japanese Peter Lang 2025/01
Papers
- Approaching the Vercelli Book: Travelogue, Ruminations, and Ruminatio Jacob Wayne Runner Studies of Language and Culture 29 35 2025/03
- On the Curriculum Reform of Year 1 Compulsory English at Kanazawa University —Focusing on EAP Course Curriculum— Kana OYABU,Kanehiro NISHIMURA,Mami KANNO,Jacob RUNNER,Michiko YAGUCHI Forum of Language Instructors 18 5 2024/03
- "To Shed Light and Not to Master": Paratext and Perspective in Robert Hunter's The Giant's Harp Jacob Wayne Runner Proceedings of the Grateful Dead Studies Association 2 96 2023/08
- Emblematic Language: A Multilingual Perspective on Wulfstan’s English and Latin Baptismal Homilies Jacob W. Runner Neophilologus 107 4 639 2023/06
- "My guise doth not incur thy trust":Translating English Medievalism and Archaism to and from Japanese in a Video Game Context Jacob W. Runner Studies in Medievalism 32 21 2023/03
- Exploring the Academic English Needs of Students at a Japanese University Brown, D,Yaguchi, M,Oyabu, K,Murray, L,Kanno, M,Morikawa, T,Runner, J Forum of Language Instructors 17 17 39 2023/03
- Eucatastrophe and Satori: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium as Interreligious Myth Jacob Wayne Runner Studies of Language and Culture 27 85 2023/03
- An Unseen Eighth Rune: Runic Legacy and Multiliteral Performativity in Cynewulf’s The Fates of the Apostles (Reprint) Jacob Wayne Runner Old English Poetry and Its Legacy, Robert E. Bjork, Ed. (MDPI) 25 2023/01
- Script and Language as Semiotic Media in Japanese Storytelling: A Theoretical Approach through Haruki Murakami’s Noruwei no mori Jacob Wayne Runner Humanities 11 5.106 1 2022/08
- Hidden Identities: St. Benedict and Localization in the South English Legendary Jacob Wayne Runner Studies of Language and Culture 26 71 2022/03
- An Unseen Eighth Rune: Runic Legacy and Multiliteral Performativity in Cynewulf’s The Fates of the Apostles Jacob Wayne Runner Humanities 10 4.124 1 2021/12
- Orpheus as Interpretative Tool: Insular Orpheus Narratives Looking Back on the Mythic Tradition Jacob W. Runner Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society 5 1 2021/07
- The Relationship between Students’ Vocabulary Self-study Activity and Vocabulary Test Scores in an EAP Course デール・ブラウン,家口 美智子,山村 公恵,河田 英介,ジェイコブ・ラナー,菅野 磨美,大藪 加奈 外国語教育フォーラム 19 5 2025/03
Conference Presentations
- Flipping the Script: Narratological Impacts and Meaningful Variations in Polygraphic Writing(conference：Script-switching in Literary Texts Colloquium)(2025/03/12)
- Voicing and Embodying Faith: Comparative Language and Textual Perspectives from the Old English Andreas(conference：The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies West Branch 40th Annual Meeting (Hiroshima Shudo University))(2024/06/08)
- Lessons from three studies on learners’ challenges in EMI courses at a Japanese University(conference：EMI Symposium 2023: Fostering Collaboration (University of Oxford))(2023/12/06)
- Intertwined Language and Spiritual Perspectives from the Vercelli Book: A Pilot Comparative Assessment(conference：Leeds International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds))(2023/07/06)
- Charting an Ideological Topography: A Comparison of Linguistic and Spiritual Perspectives Performed across the Vercelli Book(conference：International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England 21st Biennial Conference (University of Manchester))(2023/06/30)
- Investigating Students’ Academic English Needs at a Japanese University(conference：Towards Transcultural Pedagogy: Dynamics in Global EAP (University of St Andrews))(2023/03/04)
- Runes and Latin: The Significance of Early Medieval English Multiple Script Usage(conference：Colloque Bisannuel de la Diachronie de l'Anglais 7)(2023/01/13)
- Conversing with Dead Languages: Pedagogy from and for TESOL + MFL(conference：The Japan Association for Language Teaching)(2022/11/12)
- Cynewulf's Questioning of the Borders of Script and Orality in The Fates of the Apostles(conference：Leeds International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds))(2022/07/05)
- "To Shed Light and Not to Master": Paratext and Perspective in Robert Hunter's The Giant's Harp(conference：Popular Culture Association National Conference (Grateful Dead Area))(2022/04/13)
- Emblematic Code-Switching and Language Use: A Multilingual Perspective on Archbishop Wulfstan’s Baptismal Homilies(conference：The 37th Congress of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies)(2021/12/04)
- Orientalism, Medievalism, and Questioning Essentialism in Old English Literature Studies(conference：International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Conference (University of New Mexico))(2019/07/30)
- Cynewulf’s Agency: Old English Diegetic Intervention and Crafting Narratorial Status(conference：Leeds International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds))(2019/07/03)
- Scholarly Detachment and Reattachment: Old English Literature and Comparative Literature(conference：Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland Conference (University of Oxford))(2018/10/20)
- Rōmaji and Runes: Literary Polygraphy and Societal Memories(conference：Leeds International Medieval Congress: ISAS New Voices Panel (University of Leeds))(2018/07/03)
- 'My guise doth not incur thy trust’: Archaic Language as an Element of Game Localization(conference：Literature and Video Games: Beyond Stereotypes (University of St Andrews))(2018/06/21)
Others
Arts and Fieldwork
Patent
Theme to the desired joint research
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
○「Language Ideologies and Spiritual Identity: Comparative Perspectives from the Vercelli Book」(2023-2025)
○Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up「Transhistorical Approaches to Multilingualism and Multiliteralism in Early English」(2021-2022)
Competitive research funding,Contribution
Collaborative research,Consignment study
Classes (Bachelors)
○Presentation and Debate(2024)
○Academic Skills(2024)
○International Communication in English D2(2024)
○International Communication in English D1(2024)
○Study in Dynamics of British/American Culture 2(2024)
○Study in Dynamics of British/American Culture 1(2024)
○English Academic Literacy (Presentation)(2024)
○Fundamentals of Latin 4(2024)
○Latin C-2(2024)
○English Academic Literacy (Presentation)(2024)
○English for Academic Purposes IV(2024)
○Fundamentals of Latin 3(2024)
○English for Academic Purposes III(2024)
○Latin C-1(2024)
○English Academic Literacy (Presentation)(2024)
○Fundamentals of Latin 2(2024)
○Intermediate Latin II(2024)
○English for Academic Purposes II(2024)
○English Academic Literacy (Presentation)(2024)
○English for Academic Purposes I(2024)
○Intermediate Latin I(2024)
○Fundamentals of Latin 1(2024)
○International Communication in English D2(2023)
○International Communication in English D1(2023)
○Study in Dynamics of British/American Culture 2(2023)
○Study in Dynamics of British/American Culture 1(2023)
○English for Academic Purposes IV(2023)
○Latin A2-2(2023)
○Latin A2-1(2023)
○English for Academic Purposes III(2023)
○English for Academic Purposes II(2023)
○TOEIC Preparation II(2023)
○Latin A1-2(2023)
○Latin A1-1(2023)
○English for Academic Purposes I(2023)
○TOEIC Preparation I(2023)
○Latin A2-2(2022)
○English for Academic Purposes IV(2022)
○TOEIC Preparation IV(2022)
○Latin A2-1(2022)
○TOEIC Preparation III(2022)
○English for Academic Purposes III(2022)
○TOEIC Preparation II(2022)
○Latin A1-2(2022)
○English for Academic Purposes II(2022)
○Latin A1-1(2022)
○TOEIC Preparation I(2022)
○English for Academic Purposes I(2022)
○International Communication in English D2(2022)
○International Communication in English D1(2022)
○Study in Dynamics of British/American Culture 2(2022)
○Study in Dynamics of British/American Culture 1(2022)
○English for Academic Purposes I(2021)
○English for Academic Purposes II(2021)
○TOEIC Preparation IV(2021)
○TOEIC Preparation III(2021)
○English for Academic Purposes III(2021)
○TOEIC Preparation II(2021)
○TOEIC Preparation I(2021)
○English for Academic Purposes IV(2021)