Toshiko Ellis - My portal

Profile Information

Affiliation: Nagoya University of Foreign Studies

Degree: 修士(東京大学)
Ph.D.(モナシュ大学)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201201011644555670
researchmap Member ID: B000219701

External link: http://kaken.nii.ac.jp/ja/r/90242031

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2021 - Present

Professor, School of World Liberal Arts, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
Apr, 2003 - Mar, 2021

Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Apr, 1992 - Mar, 2003

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Sep, 1986 - Apr, 1992

Lecturer, Department of Japanese Studies, Monash University (Australia)

Education

Apr, 1992 - Mar, 2003

School of Asian Languages and Studies, Monash University (PhD)
Apr, 1980 - Aug, 1986

Department of Comparative Literature and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, The University of Tokyo (MA)
Apr, 1975 - Mar, 1979

College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University (BA)

Committee Memberships

Jul, 2019 - Present

Executive Council, International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
Jun, 2019 - Jun, 2021

代表理事, 日本比較文学会
Jun, 2017 - Jun, 2019

全国選出理事, 日本比較文学会
Jun, 2017 - Jun, 2018

学会賞選考委員会委員長, 日本比較文学会
Jun, 2016 - Jun, 2017

機関誌編集委員会委員長, 日本比較文学会

Papers

「かたちについてー近代詩をめぐるエスキース」

エリス俊子

『ユリイカ』2023年8月号, 808(55), Aug, 2023 InvitedLead author
The Voice and Body of Sagawa Chika: Beyond "Women's Poetry"

106 9-30, Dec, 2020
「「満洲」の詩人たちと「北」への志向ー歪化する日本の近代詩について」

エリス俊子

『現代詩手帖』, Aug, 2019 Invited
「海に響くことばー台湾より届いた声」

エリス俊子

『現代詩手帖』, May, 2019 Invited
The Landscape of "The Corpse of a Cat": In the Richness of the Absent Space

Comparative Literature Studies, 98(98) 35-48, Oct, 2013
" The Invisible Other and Symptomatic Silences: The Japanese Poetic Visions of the Colonial Pacific in the 1920s",

Toshiko Ellis

Coolabah ISSN1988-5946 Observatori Centre d’Estudis Australians, Universitat de Barcelona, 10 62-72, 2013 Peer-reviewedInvited
The hidden landscape and stagnated vision: the dynamics of blankness in "A" (Modernism research: Global dissemination of Modernism and human Diaspora)

ELLIS Toshiko

Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture, 22(4) 119-129, Mar, 2011
"Woman and the Body in Modern Japanese Poetry”

Toshiko Ellis

Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, Dossier, Mujeres en Asia Oriental, coord. Pau Pitarch Fernandez,, 93-105, 2010 Invited
The topography of Dalian and the cartography of fantastic Asia in Anzai Fuyue's poetry

T Ellis

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES, 41(4) 482-500, 2004 Peer-reviewed
When Words Become Poetry: On the Poetic Works of Ogata Kamenosuke

ELLIS Toshiko

Comparative Literature Studies, 76 49-65, Aug, 2000 Peer-reviewed
"The Japanese Avant-garde of the 1920s: The Poetic Struggle with the Dilemma of the Modern"

Toshiko Ellis

Poetics Today, Duke University Press, 20(4) 723-742, 1999 Invited
"Nature and Self in Modern Japanese Poetry: Sakutaro, Shizuo and Tatusji"

Toshiko Ellis

Review of Japanese Culture and Society,, 5 34-47, 1993 Invited
"A Vision of a Paralyzed Modernist: Some Aspects of the Works of Ito Shizuo"

Toshiko Ellis

Poetica, 35 86-97, 1992 Peer-reviewedInvited
Ito Shizuo's "The Song of the Plains" to Segantini

Comparative Literature Studies, 50 85-98, Oct, 1986 Invited

Misc.

Book Review: Ozawa Toshiei' "Hagiwara Sakutaro and Verlaine"

Comparative Literature, 60, Mar, 2018
Book Review: Sugawara Katsura "Approaches to the Novel"

Kyoyo Gakubu-ho, 2017 Invited
Book Review: Shinada Yoshikazu "Saito Mokichi: Tanka Transfigured"

Kyoyo Gakubu-ho, 566, Jun, 2014 Invited
Book Review: Nihei Masato "The Methodology of Kawabata Yasunari"

Comparative Literature, 56 125-129, Mar, 2014 Invited
Book Review: Moriya Takashi "Poetic Creation in Manchuria"

Shukan Dokushojin, Aug, 2011 Invited
Notes on the Poetic Journal "A"

Language, Information, Text, 11, 2004 Invited
Exhibition Review: Tanaka Kyokichi and His Works

Comparative Literature Studies, 77, Feb, 2001 Invited
Book Review: Kevin Michael Doak "Dreams of Difference" (Translation)

Kyoyo Gakubu-ho, 435 7-7, Jan, 2000 Invited
"Symptomatic Silences: Images, Symbols and Untold Stories in Natsume Soseki's Kokoro"

Toshiko Ellis

A Symposium on Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, Lin Lien-hsiang (ed), National University of Singapore, 113-127, 1994 Invited
"Modernism and Modernity in Japanese Poetry"

Toshiko Ellis

Japan and the World: Selected Proceedings, M.Popp and P.Drysdale (eds), Australia-Japan Research Centre, 167-172, 1991 Peer-reviewed

Books and Other Publications

Pacific Insularity: Imaginary Geography of Insular Spaces in the Pacific

Toshiko Ellis (Role: Joint author, Poetics of the Sea: Japanese Imaginations of the South Ocean)

Rikkyo University Press, Apr, 2021
Introduction to Literary Theory

Toshiko Ellis (Role: Contributor, Analysis of Poetry: (1) What is Poetic Language?, (2) Reading Modern Poetry,)

Open University Press, Mar, 2018
Bird's Eye View of Modernism

(Role: Contributor, The Modernist Body)

Chou University Press, Mar, 2018
History of Japanese Literature、H.Shirane&T.Suzuki(eds)

Toshiko Ellis (Role: Contributor, Modern Poetry: 1910s to the postwar period, pp.711-718)

Jan, 2016
The Cambridge Companion to Japanese Culture,

Toshiko Ellis (Role: Contributor, Chapter 11, Literary Culture：Struggling with the Contemporary: Japanese Literature after the Modern, pp.199-215)

Cambridge University Press, Mar, 2009
Imagination across Borders

(Role: Joint author, "Asia" as Representation: Modernism in Colonial Space)

JInbun Shoin, Feb, 2002
Emergent Ecriture

(Role: Joint editor, Modernist Emergence: Poetic Modernity of Hagiwara Sakutaro)

Tokyo University Press, Aug, 2001
Towards Cross-cultural Understanding

(Role: Contributor, "Japanese, Japanese Language and Culture: Reading Between the Lines)

Nagoya University Press, Apr, 2000
New Approaches

(Role: Contributor, Japanese Language Seen from the Outside)

Jul, 1998
Approaches to Translation

(Role: Contributor, Reflecting Texts: Reading "The Snow Country" in English)

Apr, 1997
Language and Cultural Contact in Japan, H.Marriott and M. Low (eds),

Toshiko Ellis (Role: Contributor, Hal Porter's Japan, pp.81-100)

Monash Asia Institute, 1996
Japanese Encounters with Postmodernity, J. Arnason and Y. Sugimoto (eds)

Toshiko Ellis (Role: Joint author, Questioning Modernism and Postmodernism in Japanese Literature, pp.133-153)

Kegan Paul International, London, 1995
Genealogy of Songs and Poetry

(Role: Contributor, The Nature in Ito Shizuo's Poetic Works: From the "Elegy to My Beloved" to "Spring Snow")

Chuo Koron-sha, Jul, 1994
Modernism Studies

(Role: Contributor, Redefining Japanese Modernism)

Shichosha, Mar, 1994
Minoru Kawada, The Origins of Ethnography in Japan: The Life and Works of Yanagita Kunio

Toshiko Ellis (Role: Sole translator)

Kegan Paul International, London, 1993
How to Read Soseki's Kokoro

(Role: Contributor, The Margins of Meaning in Kokoro)

Shinyosha, Nov, 1992
The Idea of Europe, B.Nelson and D.Roberts (eds)

Toshiko Ellis (Role: Contributor)

Berg Publishers, 1992
Hagiwara Sakutaro: The Structure of Poetic Imagery

Chusekisha, Sep, 1986

Presentations

"Hagiwara Sakutaro and the Politics of Nostalgia" (Session: Poetry and Political Engagement in Modern Japan)

Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Hawaii [online], Mar 27, 2022
"Opening Canonical Texts: Quotation, Retelling and Potential Criticality"

Toshiko Ellis

Jul 1, 2021
「私の瞳の中を音をたてて水が流れるー左川ちかの声を聴く」

エリス俊子

<<ワークショップReD # ensemble>> 左川ちか生誕110周年記念会、滋賀大学令和2年度学長裁量経費「女性が語る社会問題」（責任：菊地利奈）[オンライン], Feb 14, 2021 Invited
Hagiwara Sakutaro's "After the Blue Cat" and the Vision of the "Backside": Hometown, Ghosts and Colonies

Nov 30, 2019 Invited
"Comparative Literature Today: On the Question of Borders", Symposium: Japanese Literature in the Context of World Literature

Nov 23, 2019 Invited
"Japan's Islandic Imagination and the Poetics of the Sea", "Pacific Insularity: Imaginary Geography of Insular Spaces in the Pacific"

Toshiko Ellis

22nd Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Macau University, Jul 29, 2019
Challenges in the Conceptualization of 'Japanese Literature': from an East Asian Perspective

Toshiko Ellis

Future and Past in East Asian Studies 東京大学-成均館大学学術交流フォーラム, Jul 12, 2019 Invited
State, Body, Poetry

Toshiko Ellis

May 28, 2019 Invited
Globalization and Imagination: Literature, Culture and the Media in Contemporary Japan

Toshiko Ellis

International Conference: Japan and Estonia: Contemporary Challenges in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tartu University (Estonia), Sep 28, 2018 Invited
「日露戦争と日本近代詩」

エリス俊子

第３回東京大学-清華大学合同シンポジウム（東京大学）, Jul 24, 2018
"Liberation and Self-Discovery in Early 20th Century Japan"

Toshiko Ellis

The 9th Chinese Cultural Renaissance Forum: Conceptual System and Poetic Creativity in Literature, Jul 8, 2018 Invited
"Small Voices, Screaming Bodies: Poetic Witnesses of the Showa Period"

Toshiko Ellis

GJS Public Lecture Series, The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, Dec 7, 2017
"Liberal Arts Education in Japan"

Toshiko Ellis

Tsinghua University-Tokyo University Joint Symposium, Apr 13, 2017 Invited
"Challenges and Prospects: Recent Developments in Australia-Japan University Exchange"

Toshiko Ellis

"Towards Successful Partnerships: Learning from Experience", Hosted by Kyushu Uiversity, Co-hosted by the University of Sydney, Nov 25, 2015 Invited
World War One and the Transformation of Japanese Modernity

Japan Comparative Literature Association Tokyo Region Annual Meeting, Oct 11, 2014
“Japanese Language and Area Studies in the Asian Century”

Toshiko Ellis

Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA) Annual Conference,, Jul 8, 2013 Invited
"Eloquence or Reticence? The Japanese Poetic Voices in the Age of Deprivation"

Toshiko Ellis

Research Lectures at the University of Melbourne, Mar 19, 2013
The Female Exophony: With Tawada Yoko

Nov 5, 2012
East Asian Modernism: The Formation of Modern Culture in Colonial Space and the Dynamics of Imperialism

Japan Comparative Association Annual Meeting Workshop, Jun 15, 2012
“The Invisible Other, or the Encounter with the New: Japanese Poetic Visions of the Colonial Pacific in the 1920s”

Toshiko Ellis

Pacific Solutions Congress, Centro de Estudios Australianos, Universitat de Barcelona, Dec 12, 2011

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Global Dissemination of Modernism and Human Diaspora

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2006 - 2009

NISHI Masahiko, KIMURA Kazuaki, NAKAGAWA Shigemi, IKEUCHI Yasuko, SAKIYAMA Masaki, OHIRA Tomohiko, ELLIS Toshiko, SUZUKI Masahisa, SUZUKI Masao, NAGAHATA Akitoshi, ANDO Tetsuyuki, ISHIKAWA Tatsuo, NOSAKA Masashi, HOSOMI Kazuyuki, OKA Mari, INOUE Akihiko, LIN Shaoyang, LEE Chong-wha, KUNO Ryoichi, KURODA Haruyuki
Fostering Japanese University undergraduate students to contribute to globalization of Japan : case studies of Japanese exchange students to Australian Universities

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2005 - 2007

ASAOKA Takako, YAMAMOTO Hajime, ELLIS Toshiko, ASAOKA Takako
Consciousness of Euro-American World in East-Asian Modern Literature and Inter-Asian Mutual Understanding

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2004 - 2006

SUGAWARA Katsuya, ELLIS Toshiko, TOKUMORI Makoto, LIU Anwei
Interrelationship of Modern Literary Endeavors in East Asia

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2001 - 2003

SUGAWARA Katsuya, OHSAWA Yoshihiro, ELLIS Toshiko, CAMPBELL Robert, KAMIGAITO Ken'ichi, LIU Jianhui
An International Comparative Study on the Relationship between the Transformation of the Media and Linguistic Communities

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1997 - 1999

TAKAMURA Tadaaki, KOMORI Yoichi, MIYASHITA Shiro, ISHIDA Hidetaka, NISHINAKAMURA Hiroshi, FUJII Sadakazu
A Study on Short-Term Exchange Programs : Towards the Development of Curriculum

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1997 - 1999

BOCCELLARI John, KONDO Atsuko, TAKADA Yasunari, KIBATA Yoichi, TSUNEYOSHI Ryoko, TSUKAMOTO Akiko
Communicative Competence and Four Skills of Language

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1996 - 1999

MATSUNO Kazuhiko, ELLIS Toshiko, KOHDA Kaoru, OKA Hideo, YOSHIJIMA Shigeru, SAITOH Yoshifumi
短期交換留学プログラムのための総合的カリキュラムの作成

科学研究費助成事業, 萌芽的研究, 日本学術振興会, 1996 - 1997

エリス俊子, 高田康成, 近藤安月子
Preliminary Studies Towards Systematizing the Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1994 - 1996

YAMANAKA Keiichi, ELLIS Toshiko, YAMAMOTO Shiro, KOHDA Kaoru, SAKAHARA Shigeru, NITTA Naruo
Production of New Print and Video Materials for College English Courses

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1994 - 1996

SHIBATA Motoyuki, ITO Takane, ELLIS Toshiko, NISHIMURA Yoshiki, UCHINO Tadashi, SATO Yosiaki