Researcher Database

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BOVA Elio

Department / Course Kinugasa Research Organization

Title / Position Senior Researcher

Other Affiliations
1.	Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of International Language and Culture Studies

Academic background
1.	2016/04～2019/09	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Humanities │ Graduate School of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University │ Completed Doctor of Philosophy
2.	2015/04～2016/03	│ Ritsumeikan University International research student (MEXT scholarship)
3.	2013/01～2013/10	│ Leiden University
4.	2011/10～2014/05	Languages and Civilization of East Asia │ Literature │ Master (L'ORIENTALE University)
5.	2009/09～2010/09	│ Ritsumeikan University │ Studying abroad
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Business career
1.	2023/04 ～	Senior Researcher │ │ Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Research Organization
2.	2023/04 ～	Part-time Lecturer │ │ Kyoto Sangyo University
3.	2022/04 ～	Part-time Lecturer │ │ Ritsumeikan University, College of letters
4.	2020/08 ～ 2022/08	JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (Post doc) │ │ Ritsumeikan University
5.	2020/04 ～ 2020/08	Part-time Lecturer │ │ College of letters, gastronomy management.
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Research activities
1.	2019 ～	AISTUGIA - Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi
2.	2018 ～	Ritsumeikan Sudies in Language and Culture
3.	2016 ～	阪神近代文学研究会
4.	2016 ～	立命館大学人文学会

Subject of research
1.	Nakajima Atsushi, pre-war literature (mainly Showa), Micronesia under Japanese mandate, colonial literature.

Research summary
Colony and Society: a comparative study on Nakajima Atsushi and Japanese colonial literature

Present specialized field
Philosophy and ethics, History of thought, Japanese literature, English literature and literature in the English language, European literature, Linguistics, Japanese language education, Foreign language education, Japanese history (Keyword：Humanities & social sciences, Japanese modern literature, world literature. Japanese colonialism, colonialism in Southeast Asia. Post-colonial studies. Japanese, English, Italian language)

Books
1.	2022/07	Nakajima Atsushi's literature. Colony and alterity. │ (Sole-authored)
2.	2014/01	Reenacting publicness – translating artwork descriptions into 23 different languages: the interventionist projects of Yoshinori Niwa 2004 to 2012 │ (Co-authored)

Papers
1.	2022/09	Alterità, memoria e oblio in Miira di Nakajima Atsushi │ AISTUGIA (Associazione italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi) │ (Sole-authored)
2.	2022/03	Mori Shige's literary works (area of responsibility: Family tree) │ Sagano Shoin (ISBN 9784782306116) │ ,pp.398-399 (Co-authored)
3.	2021/11	Problemi di rappresentatività di un’opera tra mille. Riflessioni sull’orientamento degli studi su Kanshō di Atsushi Nakajima dal dopoguerra ad oggi │ Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture │ ,pp.179-208 (Sole-authored)
4.	2021/10	Postwar representations of the South Seas’ Japanese literature. Focusing on the perception of Nakajima Atsushi’s Kanshō. │ (Sole-authored)
5.	2021/08	Some recent development on Nakajima Atsushi's Kotan │ (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/05/28	Language and death in Nakajima Atsushi's literature (Nihon Kindai Bungakukai (Special symposium on Nakajima Atsushi))
2.	2022/12/28	Colonia e alterità nella letteratura di Nakajima Atsushi (in Italian) (ASIKA (Kyoto University))
3.	2022/09/15	“La mente e la mano. Fenomenologia del narratore in Kohyō di Nakajima Atsushi” (in Italian) (AISTUGIA)
4.	2021/11/11	“Reflecting on ‘East’, ‘West’ and Japanese modern literature” (JSPS “Science Dialogue Program”))
5.	2021/09/18	Alterità, memoria e oblio in Miira di Nakajima Atsushi (AISTUGIA)
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Works
1.	2022/04/19	A theory on "mapping" in Literary criticism
2.	2022/01/18	Between Nature and History. The fragmented body of language in Nakajima Atsushi’s Kohyo
3.	2021/05/19	Exploring the historicity of Nakajima Atsushi’s Kotan. Fofusing on Miira
4.	2020/07/08	Nakajima Atsushi’s South seas experience. Focusing on Naporeon
5.	2020/05/07	Learning Italian through expressions
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2020/08 ～ 2022/08	A study on Border Literature focused on Alterity and Captivity in POW camps and colonial literature │ Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

Achievements of joint.Funded research
1.	2023/04 ～ 2026/03	Colony and Society: a comparative study on Nakajima Atsushi and Japanese colonial literature
2.	2022/07	Jinbun Gakkai Ritsumeikan University 2020 funds for monograph publication
3.	2016/04 ～ 2019/03	research on Nakajima Atsushi
4.	2015/04 ～ 2016/03	International researcher
5.	2009/09 ～ 2010/09	奨学生

Activity in society
1.	2022/02/03	Japanese as perceived as a foreign language
2.	2020/02/06	presentation on Italian and Japanese culture
3.	2019/11/20	presentation on Italian and Japanese culture
4.	2019/09/26	Higashi-Maizuru High School, English workshop
5.	2019/06/27	presentation on Italian and Japanese culture
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Department laboratory expense researcher number
10972961

researchmap Researcher code
R000022445