Associate Professor

Department of British, American, and European Languages and Literatures, and Linguistics
(American and British Literature)

E-mail: kuraken[at]hiroshima-u.ac.jp

19th and 20th Century British Novels, Critical Theory

• English Novels
• Literary Theory
• George Eliot

My main interests are in George Eliot and psychoanalytic reading; however regarding tutorship any approaches to 19-20th century English novels would be welcome.

• George Eliot as a Reader of Ruth, Gaskell Studies, 25, 2015.
• George Eliot, Marcel Proust and the Logic of Desire, George Eliot Review, 44, 2013.
• George Eliot’s Middlemarch as Romantic Self-critique, Poetica, 79, 2013.