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ISHIKAWA Maria

Department / Course College of Letters International Studies and English Communication Program

Title / Position Associate Professor

Academic background
1.	～2013/03	Department of Law │ Faculty of Commerce │ Otaru University of Commerce │ Graduated B.A.(Commerce)
2.	～2015/03	Master Course │ Graduate School of Letters │ Hokkaido University │ Completed M.A. (Literature) (American Literature)
3.	2017/09～2023/02	Doctorial Course │ American Literature │ English Department, PhD program │ University of Massachusetts Amherst │ Completed Ph.D (English) (American Literature)

Business career
1.	2023/04 ～	Associate Professor of American Culture │ College of Letters, International Studies and English Communication Program │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2018/09 ～ 2023/01	Teaching Associate │ English Department / Writing Program │ University of Massachusetts Amherst
3.	2016/04 ～ 2017/07	JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists（DC2） │ │ Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Research activities
1.		American Studies Association
2.		Modern Language Association
3.		Poe Studies Association
4.		The American Literature Society of Japan
5.		The Emily Dickinson Society of Japan
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Subject of research
1.	Cultural representations of the unknowable in Nineteenth-Century US Literature

Present specialized field
Keyword：Nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture

Papers
1.		The Autobiographer as Detective: Frederick Douglass’s Epistemology of Self and Slavery (*Forthcoming) │ J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-century Americanists │ (Sole-authored)
2.	2017	Sowing Poet: Emily Dickinson’s Tomb and Sleeping Seeds │ The Emily Dickinson Review │ ,pp.15-26 (Sole-authored)
3.	2017	Adjoining Rooms: The Space of Sympathy in Uncle Tom’s Cabin │ Strata │ ,pp.14-30 (Sole-authored)
4.	2016	A Temple Carpenter: Emily Dickinson’s Home and Manners of Poetic Construction │ Studies in American literature │ ,pp.5-21 (Sole-authored)
5.	2015	The Blessing of Debt: The Economy of Redemption in Flannery O’Connor's Wise Blood │ Studies in English Literature: Regional Branches Combined Issue │ ,pp.7-16 (Co-authored)

Academic conference presentation
1.	2024/03	Thought-initiating Clichés: Sui Sin Far’s Endless Aphorisms (C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists, Seventh Biennial Conference)
2.	2022/04	Mystified Laughter: Edgar Allan Poe’s Secret Writing and the Subject of Humor (The Fifth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference)
3.	2021/10	What Was the Future: Time Revolt in Martin Delany’s Blake (American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Conference)
4.	2021/01	Dickinson’s Trails, Stark’s Word-Birds (Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference)
5.	2021/01	Lyric Present, Cosmic Past: Forms of Re-enchantment in Poe’s Eureka (Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference)
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2023/08/31 ～ 2025/03/31	Epistemologies of the Unknowable in Nineteenth-century US Literature │ Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2022/02 ～ 2023/01	The Unknowble in Nineteenth-Century US Literature │ Research by External Competitive Fund
2.	2021 ～ 2021	Departmental Dissertation Fellowship │ Research by External Competitive Fund
3.	2017/09 ～ 2022/08	UMass REAL (Research Enhancement and Leadership) Fellowship │ Research by External Competitive Fund
4.	2017/07 ～ 2019/08	Fulbright Fellowship (Graduate Study Program) │ Research by External Competitive Fund
5.	2015/04 ～ 2016/03	Shoshisya Scholarship for Graduate Study │ Research by External Competitive Fund

Subject
1.	Introduction to Vernacular Culture