Specialities

American Literature、Gender

Speciality Keywords

American Literature American Literature Martk Twain Men's Studies

Research Themes

Books

Papers

• 　Turn Us into Real Men: Mark Twain and His Incomplete Masculine Education.　The Mark Twain Annual　8　86-96　2010/11
• 　Separating the Inseparable Other: Education and Its Limitation in Pudd'nhead Wilson.　北海道アメリカ文学　16　57-66　2000/03
• 　Reason, Heroism, and Civilization: A Dead-end Masculine Education in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn　北海道アメリカ文学　13　71-80　1997/03

Conference Presentations

• Mark Twain’s Failures as "Neglected Texts"(conference：The 9th International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies)(2022/08/05)
• “‘Men were still monstrosities’: Mark Twain's Views on Disabilities and Their Multifaceted Meanings”(conference：The 8th International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies)(2017/08/03)
• ”With “Our joint instinct for failure”: The Fruitful Failure of the Collaboration between S. L. Clemens and W. D. Howells” (conference：The Second Clemens Conference)(2015/07/23)
• “Understanding ‘Brilliant’ Failures: Reconsideration of Mark Twain’s Unpublished Manuscripts.”(conference：The 48th Annual Western Literature Association Conference)(2013/10/09)
• 
"... even when they were failures": 
Why Do We Explore Mark Twain's "Literary Remains"?(2014/10/13)

Others

• 　"Bob's Thread"That Made Me Cross the Pacific　Kubo, TakuyaK　American Literary Realism (Winter 2026, Vol. 58, No. 2)　58　2　2025
• 　"That’s Where the Work Is”: An Interview with Dr. Benjamin Griffin (The Mark Twain Project) 　Benjamin Griffin, Takuya Kubo　Mark Twain Studies　6　2023/08
• 　Turn Us into Real Men　9　44　2010/04

Arts and Fieldwork

Patent

Theme to the desired joint research

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

○「米国社会を作る二つの「力」：「弱き者」の声が語る物語」(2019-2021)　
○「「失敗者」と「逸脱者」が紡ぎ出すアメリカ文学」(2015-2018)　
○「スティグマの切離・逸脱者の正常化:米国社会と文学に見る「奇形の男性性」表象」(2011-2013)　
○「米国社会と文学が歴史化する「男らしさ」：「戦争後」を生きる「奇形の男性像」研究」(2007-)　
○「アメリカ社会と文学による、男らしさ製造の試みと困難の系譜学的研究」(2005-)　
○「米国社会とその文学におけるジェンダー教育とアイデンティティ研究」(2002-)　
○「スティグマの切離・逸脱者の正常化：米国社会と文学に見る「奇形の男性性」表象」(2011-2013)　

Competitive research funding,Contribution

Collaborative research,Consignment study

Classes (Bachelors)

○Gender and Education(2021)
○English for Academic Purposes IV(2020)
○English for Academic Purposes III(2020)
○English for Academic Purposes III(2020)
○Outline of Literature in English C (America)(2020)
○American Regional Studies 2E(2020)
○GS English Language Courses for Undergraduates 1(2020)
○Gender and Education(2020)
○Gender and Education(2020)
○English for Academic Purposes II(2020)
○English for Academic Purposes II(2020)
○Outline of Literature in English D (America)(2020)
○Seminar in British and American Literature A(2020)
○Seminar in British and American Literature B(2020)
○American Regional Studies 1E(2020)
○American Regional Studies 2E(2020)
○American Regional Studies E(2017)
○English for Academic Purposes IV(2017)
○English for Academic Purposes III(2017)
○English for Academic Purposes II(2017)
○Seminar in American/British Studies B(2017)
○Seminar in American/British Studies B(2017)
○Studies in Teaching of English I(2017)
○History of American Literature(2017)
○English for Academic Purposes IV(2017)
○Seminar in British and American Literature E(2017)
○English Composition B(2017)
○Seminar in American/British Studies A(2017)
○American Regional Studies 2E(2017)
○Studies in Teaching of English II(2017)
○Seminar in British and American Literature A(2017)
○Special Lecture in British and American Literature(2017)
○American Regional Studies 1E(2017)
○English Composition A(2017)
○English for Academic Purposes III(2017)
○English Composition A(2017)
○English for Academic Purposes II(2017)
○Seminar in American/British Studies A(2017)
○Practical Seminar for Teaching Profession A / Schoolteacher(2017)
○Seminar in British and American Literature A(2016)
○English for Academic Purposes II(2016)
○English for Academic Purposes IV(2016)
○English for Academic Purposes III(2016)
○English for Academic Purposes III(2016)
○English Composition A(2016)
○Studies in Teaching of English II(2016)
○English for Academic Purposes IV(2016)
○English for Academic Purposes II(2016)

Classes (Graduate Schools)

○Seminar in American Cultural Representaion Ib(2017)
○Seminar in American Cultural Representaion Ia(2017)
○Lecture on American Cultural Representation Iia(2017)
○Lecture on American Cultural Representation Iib(2017)
○Topics in Curriculum Content of English C(2016)
○Seminar in Curriculum Content of English C(2016)

International Project

International Students

Lecture themes

Others (Social Activities)