Professor YAMAGUCHI, Yoshinari
Faculty, Affiliation
Faculty of International Studies, Institute of Human and Social Sciences
College and School Educational Field
Division of International Studies, Graduate School of Human and Socio-Environmental Studies
Course in American-British Studies, School of International Studies, College of Human and Social Sciences
Laboratory
TEL:076-264-5318
Academic Background
【Academic background(Doctoral/Master's Degree)】
University of Tsukuba Doctor The Institute of Literature and Linguistics American literature course 200303 Accomplished credits for doctoral program
【Academic background(Bachelor's Degree)】
Shizuoka University Department of Language and Literature 199603
【Degree】
PhD in Literature
Career
Kanazawa University Institute of Human and Social Sciences Faculty of Letters Professor(2021/02-)
Kanazawa University Faculty of Letters, Institute of Human and Social Sciences Associate professor(2018/10-2021/01)
University of Kochi Department of Cultural Studies Associate professor(2011/04-2018/09)
Kochi Women's University Department of Cultural Studies Associate professor(2008/04-2011/03)
Harvard University Department of History Visiting scholar in history(2006/04-2007/01)
Kochi Women's University Department of Cultural Studies Assistant professor(2003/04-2008/03)
Year & Month of Birth
Academic Society
American Literature Society of Japan
American Literature Society of Japan
Chu-Shikoku American Literature Society
English Literary Society of Japan
Modern Language Association
The English Literary Society of Japan: The Regional Branch of Chube District
Chubu American Literature Society
Chu-Shikoku American Literature Society
Award
Specialities
Literature in English
Speciality Keywords
early national American literature and culture, footnote and translation and creative writing, shipwreck/castaway narrative
Research Themes
The beginnings of American literature and the culture of "fame"
The creative possibilities of footnote and translation
The idea of temporality in early national American historiography
Books
- Ko Iwatsu, Nozomu Ueda, Yuichi Kasuya, Fumihiko Sato, Yoshinari Yamaguchi, Taku Yamamoto Course Materials for Literature in a Global Age 2021/12/01
- Ko Iwatsu, Nozomu Ueda, Yuichi Kasuya, Fumihiko Sato, Kinya Sugiyama, Yoshinari Yamaguchi, Taku Yamamoto Literature in a Global Age (New Edition) 2021/12/01
- Yoshinari Yamaguchi American History in Transition: From Religion to Science Brill 2020/03
- Yoshinari Yamaguchi Kochi Guidebook by Academics Showado 2019/03
Papers
- Knickerbocker Abounds: Fame and Derivative Self-Fashioning in Nineteenth-Century America Yoshinari Yamaguchi Review of American Literature 27 100-113 2023/10/31
- Emma Willard's Geographic History Yoshinari Yamaguchi Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method 2023/12/01
- "I Have to Return Some Videotapes": _American Psycho_ and the Abesnt-Minded Personality Yoshinari Yamaguchi Review of American Literature 26 98-110 2021/02
- Toward the Impersonality of History: Science and Inductive Reasoning in 19th-Century American Historiography Yoshinari Yamaguchi KWU Bunka Ronso 12 61-72 2010/03
- Experiments of Solitude: Imprisonment, Social Regulation and Mechanization in Herman Melville’s Fictions Yoshinari Yamaguchi Review of American Literature 18 18-36 2002/10
- 信用を散種する―ハーマン・メルヴィル『詐欺師』における信用貨幣と無責任な仲間たち Yoshinari Yamaguchi KWU Bunka Ronso 7 17-37 2005/03
- The Panoramic Point of View and Visual Training for Americans: "Bird’s-Eye-View" Stories of Two Tourists Yoshinari Yamaguchi Review of American Literature 21 73-97 2009/07
- The Ideas of History, or How Was "History" Historicized in Nineteenth-Century Western Thought? Yoshinari Yamaguchi Bulletin of Kochi Women's University, Series of Fuculty of Cultural Studies 60 13-24 2011/03
- American Geographico-History: Visibility and Timelessness of Emma Willard’s Progressive Maps and History in Perspective Yoshinari Yamaguchi Review of American Literature 20 46-69 2007/07
- Totalitarian Schizophrenia: Psychological Oppression in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Yoshinari Yamaguchi KWU Bunka Ronso 6 11-21 2004/03
- 魂の窓／機械の目―『ピエール』における写真技術と『神』へのまなざし Yoshinari Yamaguchi Otsuka Review 35 49-66 1999/04
- "Collect, Preserve and Communicate": Jeremy Belknap’s Republic of Letters and the Problems of Early American History Writing Yoshinari Yamaguchi The International Journal of the Book 15 1 17-28 2016/12
- 創作と霊感―『ピエール、または曖昧性』におけるイザベルの性格変化をめぐって Yoshinari Yamaguchi American Literature Tsukuba 9 29-36 1999/07
- Blue Rose: A Story of an Ordinary Family Yoshinari Yamaguchi Otsuka Review 39 63-90 2003/04
- 黒人奴隷の証言と信頼性―フレデリック・ダグラスの場合 Yoshinari Yamaguchi Bulletin of Kochi Women's University, Series of Fuculty of Cultural Studies 53 1-13 2004/03
- Dynamic Force or Mechanic Energy? : A Study of "Power" in Thomas Carlyle’s Theory of Hero-Worship Yoshinari Yamaguchi Bulletin of Kochi Women's University, Series of Fuculty of Cultural Studies 55 9-18 2006/03
- 大雑把さと些末さのあいだ―『アメリカの農夫の手紙』におけるアメリカ性の矛盾／矛盾のアメリカ性 Yoshinari Yamaguchi KWU Bunka Ronso 11 33-45 2009/03
- The Elasticity of the Individual: Early American Historiography and Emerson's Philosophy of History Yoshinari Yamaguchi Seijo English Monographs 42 233-255 2010/02
- The Republic of Letters: Organizing Historical Knowledge in Early National America Yoshinari Yamaguchi Review of American Literature 22 18-37 2011/02
- The Biographer’s (Sub-)Voice: Life, Writings and Footnotes in Jared Sparks’s Documentary History Yoshinari Yamaguchi Review of American Literature 24 61-74 2014/03
- 荒野とバラ―フランシス・パークマンの「森の歴史」における園芸学の作用 Yoshinari Yamaguchi Review of American Literature 25 183-194 2017/03
Conference Presentations
- Nostalgia and Friendship: An Approach to Henry Adams's _Memoirs of Arii Tamaii_(2022/10/29)
- Individualism and Sympathy in 19th-Century American Discussions on Friendship(conference：58th Summer Meeting of Katahirakai, the Association of Studies in English Language, Literature & Culture)(2022/08/27)
- The American in Tahiti: Identification and Nostalgia for the Vanishing People in Henry Adams's Memoirs of Arii Taimai(conference：50th Annual Conference of the Chu-Shikoku American Literature Society)(2022/06/11)
- Palimpsest translation: Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”(conference：Conference on translation, footnote, and creativity)(2021/12/18)
- English Translation and Annotation of Sungling P'u's _Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio_(conference：Conference on translation, footnote, and creativity)(2022/03/24)
- Philanthropy and Individualism in Herman Melville's _The Confidence-Man_(conference：Regular meeting of the Chubu American Literature Society)(2020/11/21)
- Of Friendship: Credit and Individualism in Nineteenth-Century America(conference：Joint workshop on resilience and anxiety 2020)(2020/01/11)
- Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and the Absent-Minded Novel(conference：Annual Conference of Chu-Shikoku American Literature Society)(2019/06/08)
- A Touristic Point of View and Visual Training for Americans: ‘Bird’s-Eye-View’ Stories of Two Tourists(conference：Department of British and American Cultural Studies Special Conference, Chukyo University)(2008/12/20)
- Geological Deep Time and Emerson’s Idea of History(conference：Conversazioni in Italia: Emerson, Hawthorne, and Poe)(2012/06/10)
- Panorama and Parataxis in Francis Parkman’s Historical Writings(conference：Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum: The Return of the Text)(2013/09/27)
- “Collect, Preserve and Communicate": Jeremy Belknap’s Republic of Letters Reconsidered(conference：Twelfth International Conference on Books, Publishing and Libraries)(2014/11/08)
- Geological Deep Time in Francis Parkman’s History Writing(conference：Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference)(2016/03/13)
Others
- Ethic of Sympathy: Utopianism and Authority in 19th-Century America Yoshinari Yamaguchi Chubu American Literature 27 72-77 2024/03/31
- An American in Tahiti: American Imperialism and Nostalgia in Henry Adams's _Memoirs of Arii Taimai_ Yoshinari Yamaguchi Chu-Shikoku Studies in American Literature 59 79-82 2023/06/01
- Time in American and East Asian Thinking: A Comparative Study of Temporality in American Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, and (Zen) Buddhist Thought. Birgit Capelle Yoshinari Yamaguchi Emerson Society Papers 23 2 13 2012
Arts and Fieldwork
Patent
Theme to the desired joint research
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
○Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)「An interdisciplinary and theoretical study on translation, footnote, and creativity」(2020-2022)
○「19世紀アメリカの友情論における個人主義と共感の相克に関する研究」(2022-2024)
○Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)「Creativity and the Culture of Fame in Early American Literature」(2019-2022)
○Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)「NaturalHistoryTurnedNationalHistory:AStudyofLate-18th-to Mid-19th-Century American Historiography」(2007-2010)
○Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)「A Theoretical and Practical Study of Footnote」(2012-2015)
○「A Historical and Theoretical Study of the Autonomy of the Marginal Texts (Footnote and Translation)」(2015-2017)
○Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)「Epistemological Framework and Literature in English」(2002-2005)