| Position | Research Associate |
|---|---|
| Faculty | Slavic Languages and Literatures |
| Graduate School | Slavic Languages and Literatures |
| Department | Slavic Languages and Literatures |
Career
| September 2011: | Ph.D., Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
| April 2024: | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Areas
Russian literature
1) Emigre Literature
I have been attempting to analyze the concepts of “boundaries” and “Russia” in the literature of writers and poets who emigrated after the 1917 Russian Revolution (First Wave Russian Emigre Literature) from the perspective of perceptual imagery. For example, my work includes studies on the imagery of blue (Georgy Ivanov, Boris Zaitsev, Gaito Gazdanov) and imagery of skin (Boris Poplavsky).
2) Ivan Bunin
Starting from research on the relationship between visible and invisible imagery and themes such as nature, memory, and love, my current focus is on the relationship between post-exile nostalgia and pre-exile exoticism. I aim to examine the illusory nature of the topos in both to attempt to relativize the “Russia” that the exiles were obsessed with.
