Position Professor
Faculty French Language and Literature
Graduate School French Language and Literature
Department French Language and Literature

Career

March 2001: Completed coursework for Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo (withdrew)
April 2018: Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

Research Areas

Modern and Contemporary French Literature

1) Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau, and other Oulipo writers

The experimental literary group “Oulipo” engages in rethinking the norms and values that literature has traditionally taken for granted in various ways. My research aims to contextualize these activities within the framework of contemporary literature.

2) Literature Exploring the Everyday

This translation captures the essence of the research focus on examining ordinary and insignificant aspects of daily life and aligns with the context provided.

3) “Place” in literature

Research in this area explores the phenomenology of “place” as depicted in literary works, focusing on locations such as rooms, houses, streets, and cities.