| Position | Research Associate |
|---|---|
| Faculty | English Language and Literature |
| Graduate School | English Language and Literature |
| Department | English Language and Literature |
Career
| April 2026 : | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
(1) T. S. Eliot and Modernist Poetry
Mikiya Sakamoto is currently in the writing-up period of his doctoral thesis, provisionally entitled ‘In Different Bodies: T. S. Eliot’s Animals and the Poetic Pursuit of Incarnate Meaning’. Drawing on the de-anthropocentric turn in recent years, his thesis argues that Eliot’s employment of animal presences carries the poet beyond the modernist struggle with the limits of human language; it thus opens up sites where aesthetic-theological ineffability becomes, albeit not wholly, expressible. His research also aims to extend this approach to other modernist poets
