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• I have been researching (long) 19th-century British literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on British Aestheticism in its global context. My current project investigates the historical connection between curiosity and cosmopolitan aestheticism in various 19th- and early 20th-century writers, including Walter Pater, J. A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde and Lafcadio Hearn, with the aim to contextualise them within a broader map of curiosity and the history of ideas.
  
  I am a passionate ‘bibliophile’, serving as Secretary of The Keio University Society of Bibliophiles for over a decade. I am also a member of various international societies for bibliophiles, including The University of London Society of Bibliophiles, of which I served as a founding committee member (Treasurer) in 2016-18, and also of The Bibliographical Society of London and The Private Libraries Association.

  Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater (2017; paperback 2019)

  

  Travelling Books: History in Europe and Japan (Keio University & British Library [FutureLearn], 2022)

  

Career 【 Display / hide 】

Career 【 Display / hide 】

• 2024.04

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  Present

  English Section, Department of Foreign Languages and Liberal Arts, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Senior Assistant Professor

• 2020.04

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  2023.03

  English Section, Department of Foreign Languages and Liberal Arts, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Assistant Professor

• 2018.09

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  2020.03

  Faculty of Letters, Keio University, Part-time Lecturer

• 2019.04

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  2020.01

  College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Part-time Lecturer

• 2013.04

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  2014.03

  Graduate School of Letters, Keio University, Assistant Professor (fixed-term)

Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

• 2006.04

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  2010.03

  Keio University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English and American Literature

  University, Graduated

• 2010.04

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  2012.03

  Keio University, Graduate School of Letters, Department of English and American Literature

  Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

• 2012.04

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  2015.03

  Keio University, Graduate School of Letters, Department of English and American Literature

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

• 2014.09

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  2018.09

  Queen Mary University of London, School of English and Drama, Department of English

  United Kingdom, Graduate School, Completed, Doctoral course

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Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

• Ph.D. (English), Queen Mary University of London, Coursework, 2018.09

  For Curiosity’s Sake: British Aestheticism and Cosmopolitan Notions of Curiosity in Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, and Lafcadio Hearn, 1864-1904

• M.A. (English), Keio University, Coursework, 2012.03

• B.A. (English), Keio University, Coursework, 2010.03

Licenses and Qualifications 【 Display / hide 】

Licenses and Qualifications 【 Display / hide 】

• Queen Mary Diploma of Researcher Development (Q-Dip), Awarded by the Doctoral College at Queen Mary University of London in recognition of the completion of (over) 210 hours of researcher development activities over the course of a Ph.D., 2018.09

Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

• Humanities & Social Sciences / English literature and literature in the English language

• Humanities & Social Sciences / Aesthetics and art studies

• Humanities & Social Sciences / History of thought

Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

• English Literature

• British Aestheticism

• Curiosity

• Cosmopolitanism

• Intellectual/Cultural History

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Books 【 Display / hide 】

Books 【 Display / hide 】

• Travelling Books: History in Europe and Japan

  Educators: Takami MATSUDA, Takahiro SASAKI, Toru ISHIKAWA, Satoko TOKUNAGA, Daichi ISHIKAWA, Kristian JENSEN, Karen LIMPER-HERZ, Hamish TODD, Alessandro BIANCHI, Keio University & The British Library (FutureLearn, UK), 2022.06

  Scope: Japanese-English translation / participation in the interview section (step 3.19) Original author： Keio University & The British Library , Accepted

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  3-week online course, jointly created by Keio University & The British Library

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• Reflections on Cleanth Brooks: Literature as a Sacred Urn; or, in Search of Close/Lost Reading, Extraterritorial, Deconstructive, Trans-Hemispheric: Humanities Unbound in the 21st Century, ed. by Takayuki Tatsumi, Michiko Shimokobe, Hiromi Ochi, Kazuhiko Goto and Noriyuki Harada (Tokyo: Takanashi Shobo, 2021) [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi, Takanashi Shobo, 2021.10,  Page： 4 (two-column text)

  Contact page： 428-31（2段組）

• A Great Chain of Curiosity: Pater’s ‘Sir Thomas Browne’ and its Nineteenth-Century British Context, Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater, ed. by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Martine Lambert-Charbonnier, and Charlotte Ribeyrol (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017; paperback 2019)

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi, Routledge, 2017.09,  Page： 16

  Contact page： 109-24 , Accepted

Papers 【 Display / hide 】

Papers 【 Display / hide 】

• 'The Importance of Doing Nothing': Styles of Radical Idleness/Laziness in Oscar Wilde [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  The Keio University Hiyoshi Review of English Studies （Keio University Press (The Hiyoshi Review Publishing Committee))   （ 77 ） 1 - 29 2023.03

  Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution), Single Work, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author, Accepted,  ISSN  0911-7180

• Old Wine, New Songs: Novelty in Walter Pater [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  The Geibun-Kenkyu: Journal of Arts and Letters (Essays in Honour of Professor Takami Matsuda （Geibun-Gakkai (The Keio Society of Arts and Letters))   （ 123-3 ） 97 - 116 2022.12

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author,  ISSN  0435-1630

• The Pleasures of Influence: Between Pater and Ruskin [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  News from the Ruskin Library （The Ruskin Society of Tokyo (The Ruskin Library))   （ 84 ） 1 - 5（4段組） 2022.10

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

• British Aestheticism and Cosmopolitan Notions of Curiosity in Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, and Lafcadio Hearn, 1864-1904

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  unpublished Ph.D. thesis （Queen Mary University of London)   2018

  Doctoral thesis, Single Work, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author, Accepted

• Diaphaneity, Divinity, Disguise: The Vocation of the Scholar in Walter Pater

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  The Geibun-Kenkyu: Journal of Arts and Letters （Geibun-Gakkai (The Keio Society of Arts and Letters))   （ 104 ） 20 - 44 2013

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author,  ISSN  0435-1630

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

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

• The importance of doing nothing' : styles of radical idleness/laziness in Oscar Wilde

  Ishikawa, Daichi

  The Keio University Hiyoshi review of English studies （慶應義塾大学日吉紀要刊行委員会)   （ 77 ） 1 - 29 2023.03

  ISSN  09117180

• Old wine, new songs : novelty in Walter Pater

  Ishikawa, Daichi

  The geibun-kenkyu : journal of arts and letters （慶應義塾大学藝文学会)  123 （ 3 ） 97 - 116 2022.12

  ISSN  04351630

• Remapping the development of cosmopolitan aestheticism in modern British literary culture and its place in the history of ideas

  Ishikawa, Daichi

  学事振興資金研究成果実績報告書 （慶應義塾大学)  2021

• Remapping the development of cosmopolitan aestheticism in modern British literary culture and its place in the history of ideas

  Ishikawa, Daichi

  学事振興資金研究成果実績報告書 （慶應義塾大学)  2020

Reviews, Commentaries, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

Reviews, Commentaries, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

• Et ego in Venezia fui [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  The Walter Pater Society of Japan Newsletter (The Walter Pater Society of Japan)   ( 44 ) 7 - 11 2023.10

  Meeting report, Single Work

• Books Recommended by Keio Professors 2023 (library exhibition) [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

   2023.03

  Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other), Single Work, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

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  Special exhibition held at Keio University Hiyoshi Library from 27 March to 31 May 2023 (also available online)

• The Cultural Values of Learning the English Words and Expressions that You Will Never Come Across in Exams: The Essence of British Culture Seen through an English Professor’s Idle Talk and Chit-Chat (Review of Satoshi Ando, Idle Talk and Useless Information on the English Language and British Culture (Heibonsha, 2022)) [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  Shukan Dokushojin (Dokushojin)     2023年1月20日号（4面・5段組） 2023.01

  Book review, literature introduction, etc., Single Work

• Uni-verse [poem]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  Right Margin (Special Issue in Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of The English Poetry Society of Japan) (The English Poetry Society of Japan)     179 - 182 2022.12

  Other, Single Work

• Why I Collect Antiquarian Books [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  The Keio Research Center for the Liberal Arts Newsletter  ( 40 )  2022.05

  Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (bulletin of university, research institution), Single Work

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Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

• The University Societies of Bibliophiles in the UK: 1950-2024 [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  The 47th Meeting of The Keio University Society of Bibliophiles (KUSB) (Keio University (Mita Campus)) , 

  2024.03

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  Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech, The Keio University Society of Bibliophiles (KUSB)

• Among the Oxford Cosmopolitans: Oscar Wilde and J. A. Symonds [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  The 48th Meeting of The Oscar Wilde Society of Japan (Symposium: 'Oscar Wilde's Oxford') (Chuo University (Korakuen Campus)) , 

  2023.12

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  Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), The Oscar Wilde Society of Japan

• The Past and Present of the University Societies of Bibliophiles at Oxford, Cambridge, London and Keio Universities [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  The World of Bibliography (a lecture series sponsored by Kyokuto Securities Co., Ltd.) (Keio University (Mita Campus) & Zoom) , 

  2023.11

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  Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech, Keio University Faculty of Letters

• No Traveller Returns: John Collier, Junzaburo Nishiwaki, Sofu Taketomo [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  The 46th Meeting of The Keio University Society of Bibliophiles (KUSB) (Keio University (Mita Campus)) , 

  2022.11

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  The Keio University Society of Bibliophiles (KUSB)

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  organiser/chair/speaker

• Ruskin and Pater: The Dream of Perfection, the Love of the Unfinished [in Japanese]

  ISHIKAWA, Daichi

  The 60th Annual Meeting of The Walter Pater Society of Japan ('Ruskin and Pater' symposium) (The Aoyama Gakuin University (Aoyama campus)) , 

  2022.10

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  Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), The Walter Pater Society of Japan

  Conference Programme

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Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

• An Empirical Study on the ‘Grammar of Realism’ in Modern Western Literature Using a Multilingual Approach

  2023.04

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  2026.03

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), KAKEN (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research), Minori NODA (Principal Investigator), Daichi ISHIKAWA, Takahiro NISHIO, Yosuke SHIMODA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Research grant, Coinvestigator(s)

• Remapping the Development of Cosmopolitan Aestheticism in Modern British Literary Culture and its Place in the History of Ideas

  2020.04

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  2023.03

  Keio University, Keio University Academic Development Fund (Individual Research), Research grant, Principal investigator

Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

• ENGLISH SPEAKING 2

  2024

• ENGLISH 4

  2024

• ENGLISH 3

  2024

• ENGLISH 2

  2024

• ENGLISH 1

  2024

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Courses Previously Taught 【 Display / hide 】

Courses Previously Taught 【 Display / hide 】

• English III・IV (Upper-intermediate)

  Faculty of Letters, Keio University

  2019.04

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  2020.03

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  Full academic year

• English III・IV (Intermediate)

  Faculty of Letters, Keio University

  2019.04

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  2020.03

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  Full academic year

• Academic Writing ID

  Department of English and American Literature, Faculty of Letters, Keio University

  2019.04

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  2020.03

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  Spring Semester, Seminar

• Academic Writing IID

  Department of English and American Literature, Faculty of Letters, Keio University

  2019.04

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  2020.03

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  Autumn Semester, Seminar

• English I (English for Arts and Sciences) S1/S2

  Department of English Language, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

  2019.04

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  2020.03

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  Spring Semester

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Academic Activities 【 Display / hide 】

Academic Activities 【 Display / hide 】

• The 47th Meeting of The Keio University Society of Bibliophiles (KUSB)

  The Keio University Society of Bibliophiles (KUSB),  （Keio University (Mita Campus)) , 

  2024.03

• Emotions and Realism: A Dialogue between Literary and Historical Studies (symposium)

  The Literary Realism Society,  （Keio University (Hiyoshi Campus) & Zoom) , 

  2024.01

• The 23rd Meeting of The English Poetry Society of Japan

  The English Poetry Society of Japan,  （The University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus) & Zoom) , 

  2023.09

• The 22nd Meeting of The English Poetry Society of Japan

  The English Poetry Society of Japan,  （The University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus) & Zoom) , 

  2023.03

• Kaiki and Realism (symposium)

  The Literary Realism Society,  （Online (Zoom)) , 

  2023.01

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Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

• The British Association of Decadence Studies, 

  2022.12

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  Present

• The Keio Research Center for the Liberal Arts, 

  2021.04

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  Present

• The John Ruskin Society of Tokyo, 

  2021.03

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  Present

• The Literary Realism Society, 

  2021.01

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  Present

• The Oscar Wilde Society of Japan, 

  2019.04

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  Present

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Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

• 2024.04

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  Secretary, The Victorian Studies Society of Japan

• 2024.03

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  Present

  Course Coordinator (English Section), Department of Foreign Languages and Liberal Arts, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University

• 2024.01

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  Present

  Committee Member, The Literary Realism Society

• 2023.10

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  Present

  Library Committee Member, English Section, Keio University (Hiyoshi Campus)

• 2023.03

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  Present

  Committee Member, The English Poetry Society of Japan

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  https://engpoetrysocj.wordpress.com

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