MODERN LANGUAGES and CULTURES - University of Tsukuba

<<Faculty members>>
The following faculty members will be responsible for supervising your Master's and Doctoral theses reserch.

Research Area: European Culture in the first half of the twentieth Century (Fine Art and Music), Representation and Culture in modern Japan
Doctoral Courses: Studies in Cultural Phenomena
Other Courses: Seminar in Thought and Culture, Seminar in Representation and Culture (Comparative Culture) etc.
E-mail, Homepage

Research Area: German Literature and Culture of the 18th Century. J.G.Herder's Cultural Theory and Historical Thought.
Doctoral Courses: Studies in the Genesis of Culture
Other Courses: Seminar on Advanced Studies in Culture XII (Comparative Culture), etc.
E-mail, Homepage: hamada.makoto.fu(@)u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Area: Phenomenology and French Philosophy (Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault), Philosophy of Technology, Contemporary Art Theory
Doctoral Courses: Cultural Study of Science
Other Courses: Advanced Study in Culture, Seminar on Advanced Study in Culture (Comparative Culture), French (CEGLOG)
E-mail, Homepage: parergon(@)jcom.home.ne.jp

Research Area: American literature since 1890, musico-literary studies, and the relationship between the two scholarly fields.
Doctoral Courses: Studies in Cross-Cultural Communication II
Other Courses: History of English and American Literature (Master’s Program in Education), Seminar in American Literature II (Comparative Culture), etc.
E-mail, Homepage: magome.kiyoko.gn(@)u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Area: Social changes due to the expansion of the Spanish Empire towards the Islamic World and the Americas in the Late Middle and Early Modern Ages. Historical identities of Modern Spanish people(s).
Doctoral Courses: Cross-cultural Area Studies (3)
Other Courses: Topics in European Studies 4,5 (International Area Studies), European and American Culture I, II (Comparative Culture), etc.
E-mail, Homepage: miyazaki.kazuo.ge(@)u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Area: 19th-Century English Literature and Culture
Doctoral Courses: Studies in Cultural Borders
Other Courses: Studies in English and American Literature VII (Master's Program in Education), History of English Literature II (College of Comparative Culture), etc.
E-mail, Homepage: nakada.motoko.ge(@)u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Area: French contemporary thought, History of thoughts, Social theory, Theory of power
Doctoral Courses: Cultural structure
Other Courses: Culture and Creativity (College of Comparative culture)
E-mail, Homepage: sato.yoshiyuki.ff(@)u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Area: English Literature, Media and Cultural Theory
Doctoral Courses: Cultural Dynamics(I)
Other Courses: Studies in English and American Literature (Master's Program in Education), Studies in Textual Culture (College of Comparative Culture), Studies in Cultural Theory (College of Comparative Culture) etc.
E-mail, Homepage: shimizu.tomoko.fu(@)u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Area: History of dance in German-speaking areas (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland); Studies on the literature of J. W. von Goethe from the aspect of the body; Theoretical studies on the relation between culture and communication; Teaching method of German.
Doctoral Courses: Cross-Cultural (Intercultural) Communication
Other Courses: Lectures on the European Studies, Lectures on the German Literature (College of Comparative Culture), German classes (CEGLOC).
E-mail, Homepage: takei.takamichi.ft(@)u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Area: African American Writers and Transpacific Networks in the Twentieth Century
Doctoral Courses: Studies in Cultural Differences
Other Courses: Studies in English and American Literature (Master's Program in Education), Introductory Seminar in Anglo-American and European Studies, Seminar in Anglo-American Studies, Studies in American Culture (College of Comparative Culture), etc.
E-mail, Homepage: etsuko-taketani.fm(@)u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Area: Theories of Representation and Culture, Philosophical Approach to Literature, , Theories of Language.
Doctoral Courses: Contrastive Studies of Culture
Other Courses: Studies on Advanced Cultures IV, Seminar in Advanced Cultures IV (College of Comparative Culture), etc.
E-mail, Homepage: lemontr(@)jcom.home.ne.jp

Research Area: English literature and art, anthropology of art
Doctoral Courses: Cultural Dynamics (2)
Other Courses: Seminar on English and American Literature III (Master’s Program in English Education), Advanced Studies in Culture VII, VIII (College of Comparative Culture), etc.
E-mail, Homepage: yamaguchi.eriko.gm(@)u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Area: French literature, Studies of Culture and Representation, Studies of art and photogragh, Studies of Samuel Beckett
Doctoral Courses: Studies in the Development of Image
Other Courses: Studies in Comparative culture and art, Seminar in French Literature, etc.
E-mail, Homepage: yoshino.osamu.ft(@)u.tsukuba.ac.jp

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