Updated on 2024/04/04

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KINUGAWA Shosuke
 
Organization
Graduate School of Humanities Department of Humanities Associate professor
Undergraduate School
School of Humanities
Title
Associate professor
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Research Interests 3

  1. American Literature

  2. Mark Twain

  3. Detective Fiction

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Research Areas 1

  1. Humanities & Social Sciences / English literature and literature in the English language

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Research History 3

  1. Nagoya University   Associate professor

    2024.4

  2. Kobe City University of Foreign Studies   Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of English Studies   Associate professor

    2018.4 - 2024.3

  3. Kobe City University of Foreign Studies   Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of English Studies   Lecturer

    2016.4 - 2018.3

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Education 2

  1. Ph.D. The State University of New York, Buffalo   Department of English, Ph.D Program

    2010 - 2016

  2. Hokkaido University   Graduate School of Letters

    2008 - 2010

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Professional Memberships 4

  1. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society

  2. THE AMERICAN LITERATURE SOCIETY OF JAPAN

  3. The Mark Twain Society of Japan

  4. The English Literature Society of Japan

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Awards 6

  1. SUNY Buffalo Outstanding Dissertation Award

    2017   The State University of New York, Buffalo  

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  2. Robert and Carol Morris Dissertation Completion Fellowship

    2015   SUNY Buffalo  

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  3. Composition Program Syllabus Prize 1st Place

    2015   SUNY Buffalo  

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  4. Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award

    2015   SUNY Buffalo  

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  5. Opler-Doubrava Dissertation Fellowship

    2014   SUNY Buffalo  

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  6. Fulbright Scholarship (Graduate Studies Program)

    2010  

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Papers 7

  1. Wordplay and Encoded Writing in Mark Twain's Literature. Reviewed

    Shosuke Kinugawa

    Mark Twain Journal (USA)   Vol. 60 ( 1 ) page： 87 - 122   2022

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

  2. Agatha Christie's secret fair play Reviewed

    Kinugawa S.

    Narrative   Vol. 26 ( 2 ) page： 163 - 180   2018.5

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Narrative  

    This essay challenges the skepticism towards the formal and thematic complexity of Agatha Christie's detective stories by revealing the role of covert wordplay in her works. In doing so, the essay also questions the consensus in detective fiction studies that the use of covert wordplay in British and American detective stories is a distinct feature of works by postmodern authors (with the exception of Edgar Allan Poe) writing in the metaphysical detective story tradition. Combining biographical criticism, close reading, and Michel Sirvent's concept of diegetic vs. extradiagetic clues as its critical framework, the essay analyzes Christie's novel The A. B. C. Murders (1936) and the short story "Strange Jest" (1950) to contend that Christie uses clandestine wordplay for two purposes. On the one hand, it functions as a tool for traditional fair play by serving as clues for readers in solving the plot-level mystery. The same wordplay, however, also functions as clues within an intertextual puzzle game in which readers are asked to decipher the stories as competitive rewritings of Poe's detective tales. As a result, the essay uncovers hitherto neglected aspects of Christie's formal craft, particularly in terms of the device of fair play, as well as the intertextual relationship between her works and those by Poe. Moreover, it shows that Golden Age detective fiction, like its postmodern successors, also employ clandestine wordplay as a part of an intricate and sophisticated metafictional narrative design.

    DOI： 10.1353/nar.2018.0009

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  3. “Taking Yet Mistaking: Puns in ‘The Purloined Letter.’” Reviewed

    Shosuke Kinugawa

    The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan   Vol. 14 ( 14 ) page： 5 - 18   2016

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：The American Literature Society of Japan  

    DOI： 10.20687/englishalsj.2015.14_5

  4. Mark Twain’s Secret Writings Reviewed

    Shosuke Kinugawa

    University at Buffalo, SUNY     2016

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Doctoral thesis  

    Ph.D Dissertation

  5. “‘He’s not dead - I know he isn’t’: The Narrative of Absence in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Stories.” Reviewed

    Shosuke Kinugawa

    The F. Scott. Fitzgerald Review   Vol. 12   page： 88 - 107   2014

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  6. The Agency of Awareness: Masculine Performance and Authorship in Louisa May Alcott's "Behind a Mask" Reviewed

    Shosuke Kinugawa

    ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK   Vol. 61 ( 4 ) page： 387 - 403   2013

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：KONIGSHAUSEN & NEUMANN GMBH  

    Critics of Louisa May Alcott's fiction have tended to discuss performativity as an exclusive attribute of her female characters, mainly in terms of their ability or inability to negotiate between the domestic/public spheres. While readings of "Behind a Mask; Or, A Women's Power" through the context of female performance in the nineteenth-century U.S. have shed ample light on the subversive qualities of the tale, these readings have yet to assess the full subversiveness of the story due to its neglect of the performative qualities of the male characters. It is by assessing its illustration of both female and male characters as having a performative selfhood that we are able to see a more complete view of the ways in which "Behind a Mask" engages critically with the cultural conventions of its time. By giving the female protagonist sole awareness of the innately fictional nature of subjectivity and the resulting agency to rewrite the selfhood of men who believe in the "realness" of their identity, Alcott presents a narrativized critique of the false hierarchy designating the male subject as real and authentic as opposed to that of women being transitory and derivative. At the same time, the story presents a singular theory of authorship that is neither romantic or postmodern in its proposal that the awareness of the fictional dimensions of the subject has the potential for securing a limited but nevertheless powerful measure of authorial agency.

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  7. The Ring and the Gaze: Robert Browning's LOVE AMONG THE RUINS Reviewed

    Shosuke Kinugawa

    EXPLICATOR   Vol. 68 ( 4 ) page： 235 - 238   2010

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：HELDREF PUBLICATIONS  

    DOI： 10.1080/00144940.2010.535472

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Books 3

  1. オン・ザ・ロード : 書物からみるカウンターカルチャーの系譜 : ビート・ジェネレーション・ブック・カタログ

    （ Role： Joint translator）

    2021.7  （ ISBN:9784910352060 ）

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    Total pages：269p  

  2. Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond.

    Shosuke Kinugawa, Emily Anderson (co-authored article（ Role： Joint author ,  "Kawaii Wilder: Little House in Japan."）

    University Press of Mississippi  2019.6 

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    Accepted: https://www.amazon.com/Reconsidering-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-Association/dp/1496823087

  3. Poetry For Students.Vol.41

    Shosuke Kinugawa（ Role： Joint author ,  "The Ring and the Gaze: Robert Browning's 'Love Among the Ruins.'"）

    Gale  2012 

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MISC 7

  1. 長い後の祭り Invited

    衣川将介

    日本マーク・トウェイン協会Newletter   Vol. 57   2023.2

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    Authorship：Lead author   Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other)  

  2. [Book Review] Translation of the Serialized Version of Mark Twain's Autobiography Invited

    Shosuke Kinugawa

        2020.10

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    Authorship：Lead author   Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

  3. （書評）Douglas Anderson, The Introspective Art of Mark Twain (2017) Invited

    衣川将介

    マーク・トウェイン研究と批評   ( 18 )   2019

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    Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

    掲載決定

  4. （Book Review）Ed. Kevin Mac Donnell and R. Kent Rasmussen. Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings (2016). Invited

    Shosuke Kinugawa

    マーク・トウェイン研究と批評   ( 17 ) page： 59 - 62   2018.6

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    Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

    Forthcoming

  5. 「472 Deleware Streetの謎」 Invited

    衣川将介

    マーク・トウェイン研究と批評   Vol. 15 ( 15 ) page： 119 - 121   2016

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    Language：Japanese   Publisher：南雲堂  

    CiNii Books

  6. (Book Review) Horst Kruse. F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work: The Making of The Great Gastby (2014) Invited

    Shosuke Kinugawa

    The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review   Vol. 13   page： 263 - 269   2015

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    Language：English   Publishing type：Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

  7. 「ハックと剽窃」 Invited

    衣川将介

    マーク・トウェイン研究と批評   ( 14 ) page： 119 - 121   2015

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    Language：English   Publisher：南雲堂  

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Presentations 3

  1. Plan D: What To Do After the PhD? (Interview) Invited

    Shosuke Kinugawa

    Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa  2021.11.4 

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    Presentation type：Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue：Online  

    Participated as interviewee. Interviewer: Dr. João Paulo Guimarães.

  2. "Realism and Conjecture in William Faulkner and Mark Twain's Detective Stories." International conference

    Shosuke Kinugawa

    Northeastern Modern Language Association  2017.3.24 

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    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue：Baltimore, MD  

    Co-Chair of Panel titled Realism in American Detective Fiction.

  3. "Mark Twain's Metaphysical Detective Stories." International conference

    Shosuke Kinugawa

    American Literature Association  2015.5.23 

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    Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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KAKENHI (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research) 3

  1. Uses of Covert Wordplay in Anglo American Detective Fiction

    Grant number：19K13109  2019.4 - 2023.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

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    Authorship：Principal investigator 

    Grant amount：\4160000 （ Direct Cost: \3200000 、 Indirect Cost：\960000 ）

    The purpose of this study is to understand the role of hidden wordplay in Anglo-American detective fiction. Toward this end, I began by collecting and organizing primary and secondary sources that serve as the basis for my research, mainly detective fiction, crime fiction, criticism concerning these genres and relevant scholarship on the topics of race, gender, wordplay and cryptography. I then selected fictional works from among the collected materials that will serve as the primary subject of analysis for the research project. Furthermore, I published an article elucidating an aspect of the relationship between Twain's detective fiction and wordplay in an international journal dedicated to Twain studies. The fact that the article was published in a leading Twain research journal is evidence that research coming out of this project has been recognized as meaningful. Moreover, I was able to find additional relevant fictional works that broaden the scope of the project.

  2. A Study of 1980s Anglo American Detective Fiction with Female Detectives

    2019.4 - 2020.3

    Foundation of Kinoshita Memorial Enterprise  Anglophone literature

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  3. Wordplay and Ciphers in Mark Twain's Literature

    Grant number：16H07128  2016.8 - 2018.3

    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

    Kinugawa Shosuke

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    Grant amount：\2080000 （ Direct Cost: \1600000 、 Indirect Cost：\480000 ）

    The purpose of this study is to show that the nineteenth-century U.S. author Mark Twain used wordplay as a medium of encryption in his literature. I gathered examples of Twain’s wordplay and encryption, as well as evidence of his interest in these two kinds of writing, from his published texts, notebooks, letters, manuscripts, and marginalia. I also conducted research on the culture of wordplay in the nineteenth-century U.S. from which Twain’s interest in wordplay developed. I then combined these two perspectives into a critical framework for examining the use of clandestine wordplay as a tool of encryption in Twain’s literature. Finally, I used this framework to examine how Twain uses wordplay to encode his prose fiction, mainly his short stories and novels.

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