Oya, Reiko

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Affiliation

Faculty of Business and Commerce ( Hiyoshi )

Position

Professor
Scopus Paper Info  
Paper Count: 7 Citation Count: 5 h-index: 2

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Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

  • 1987.03

    The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Liberal Arts

    University, Graduated

  • 1990.03

    The University of Tokyo, Graduate School, Division of Humanities

    Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 1991.09

    University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute, Shakespeare Studies

    United Kingdom, Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 1993.03

    The University of Tokyo, Graduate School, Division of Humanities

    Graduate School, Withdrawal after completion of doctoral course requirements, Doctoral course

  • 2003.08

    King's College London, Department of English, Shakespeare Studies

    United Kingdom, Graduate School, Completed, Doctoral course

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Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / European literature (European Language Literature)

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Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

  • 18th century

  • British culture

  • Shakespeare

  • reception

  • theatre history

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Books 【 Display / hide 】

  • The Pauper Prince Translates Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Ken’ichi Yoshida and the Poetics/Politics of Post-war Japan

    Oya R., Global Shakespeares, 2024

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    Author and literary critic Ken’ichi Yoshida (1912–1977) had a privileged, international upbringing. He enrolled at King’s College, Cambridge, to read English in 1930, but left the university half a year later to devote his life to Japanese literature back in Tokyo. It was only after World War II that the author turned to English literature once again to address the ideological and literary crises in the shattered, defeated nation. Shakespeare’s Sonnets held a special place in Yoshida’s post-war output: he not only translated many of the poems but also discussed, quoted, and assimilated them in his critical and literary essays. To him, “translation is a form of criticism” (“On Translation”, 1956), and, like Oscar Wilde, he regarded “The Critic as Artist.” My essay explores Yoshida’s engagement with Shakespeare’s Sonnets against the backdrop of the rapidly democratizing Japanese society of the late 1940s through the 60s. Yoshida’s idiosyncratic writing style was often criticized as “recondite” and “incomprehensible,” but his Sonnets translation exerted significant influence over distinguished contemporary poets, such as Hiroshi Yoshino (1926–2014) and Shuntaro Tanikawa (1931–). My essay examines how Yoshida’s reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets afforded him the insight into, and visions for, the literature and society of post-war Japan .

  • ‘AND WHICH THE JEW?’: REPRESENTATIONS OF SHYLOCK IN MEIJI JAPAN (1868–1912)

    Oya R., Shakespeare Survey 76 Digital and Virtual Shakespeare, 2023.01

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    When The Merchant of Venice was first introduced to Japan in the early years of the Meiji period, an overwhelming majority of the readers and members of the audience had not even heard the word Jew, let alone met one in the flesh. Japan had only recently (1854) abandoned its isolationist foreign policy that had severely limited relations with other countries and banned nearly all foreign nationals from entering the country for 265 years. James Shapiro has shown convincingly that, in England, Jews kept invoking cultural insecurities even after the Expulsion in 1290, and that the anxiety they generated directly influenced Shakespeare's Jewish characters.2 Even the brilliant Columbia professor, however, would have difficulty locating a Jewish question in Japan at the time of the Meiji Restoration. In fact, it was Shakespeare's Venetian comedy that would help frame that question in Japanese minds.

  • Shakespeare at War: A Material History

    Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2023

    Scope: 'G. Wilson Knight’s "Royal Propaganda" in This Sceptred Isle (1941),'

  • Shakespeare's Global Sonnets: Translation, Appropriation, Performance

    Jane Kingsley-Smith and William Rampone (eds), Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

    Scope: 'The Pauper Prince Translates Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Ken’ichi Yoshida and the Poetics/Politics of Post-war Japan'

  • Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives

    Paul Franssen、 Paul Edmondson , 2020.04

    Scope: Chapter 3 'Talk to Him': Wilde, his Friends and Shakespeare’s Sonnets ,  Contact page： 48-67

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Papers 【 Display / hide 】

  • 'And which the Jew?': Representations of Shylock in Meiji Japan (1868-1912),

    Shakespeare Survey 76 (Cambridge University Press)  76 2023

    Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Corresponding author

  • The Role of Shakespeare in W. B. Yeats’s Irish theatre: Diarmuid and Grania (1901) and Beyond

    Reiko Oya

    Archiv fuer das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 259 ( 2 ) 302 - 315 2022.12

    Research paper (scientific journal), Corresponding author, Accepted

  • The Comedy of Hamlet in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw: An Exploration of Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942)

    Reiko Oya

    Shakespeare Survey (Cambridge University Press)  72 2019

    Accepted

  • Denial and Assertion: W. H. Auden’s Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets　（forthcoming)

    OYA REIKO

    アートセンター・ブックレット  2017

  • Authenticating the Inauthentic: Edmond Malone as Editor of the Apocryphal Shakespeare

    OYA REIKO

    Shakespeare Survey (Cambridge University Press)  69   324 - 333 2016

    Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted

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Papers, etc., Registered in KOARA 【 Display / hide 】

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Reviews, Commentaries, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

  • Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan, (eds.), The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition

    Reiko Oya

    英文学研究 (日本英文学会)  96 2019

  • Akihiro Yamada's Readers and Audiences in the Age of Shakespeare

    OYA REIKO

    Studies in English Literature (English Literary Society of Japan)  57   83 - 88 2016

    Book review, literature introduction, etc., Single Work

  • Penny Gay's ‘Women and eloquence in Shakespeare and Austen’

    OYA REIKO

    ABES (Routlege)   2012

    Book review, literature introduction, etc., Single Work

  • Robert Tierney's ‘Othello in Tokyo: Performing Race and Empire in 1903 Japan’

    OYA REIKO

    ABES (Routledge)   2012

    Book review, literature introduction, etc.

  • Andrew Murphy's ‘Shakespeare and Chronology: Edward Dowden's Biographical Readings’

    OYA REIKO

    ABES (Routlege)   2011

    Book review, literature introduction, etc., Single Work

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Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

  • Coleridge, his ‘siblings’ and Shakespeare’s Sonnets

    OYA REIKO

    [International presentation]  London Shakespeare Seminar (London) , 

    2014.10
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    Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech, University of London

  • ‘Authenticating the Inauthentic: Edmond Malone’s Editions of The Passionate Pilgrim’

    OYA REIKO

    International Shakespeare Conference, 

    2014
    , 

    Symposium, workshop panel (public)

  • 『ソネッツ』 解釈の展望

    OYA REIKO

    [Domestic presentation]  第51回シェイクスピア学会 (秋田大学) , 

    2012.10
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    Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech, 日本シェイクスピア協会

  • Filming 'the weight of this sad time': Yasujiro Ozu’s rereading of King Lear in Tokyo Story

    OYA REIKO

    [International presentation]  International Shakespeare Conference (Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) , 

    2012.08
    , 

    Oral presentation (invited, special), International Shakespeare Association

  • シェイクスピアにおける歴史的名優達：声、スピード、そして情念

    OYA REIKO

    [Domestic presentation]  第49回シェイクスピア学会 (福岡女学院大学) , 

    2010.10
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    Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), 日本シェイクスピア協会

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Works 【 Display / hide 】

  • SEASONS: Representation of "Time" through the medium of space, music, and contemporary dance

    OOYA REIKO

    2004.10
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    Other, Joint

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Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • GENERAL EDUCATION SEMINAR (DB)

    2025

  • GENERAL EDUCATION SEMINAR (DA)

    2025

  • ENGLISH READING 2B(INTERMEDIATE)

    2025

  • ENGLISH READING 2A(INTERMEDIATE)

    2025

  • ENGLISH READING 1B(UPPER INTERMEDIATE)

    2025

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Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

  • 2022
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    Present

    Editorial Board, Shakespeare Quarterly, Oxford University Press

  • 2018
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    Present

    Advisory Board, Shakespeare Survey, Cambridge University Press

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