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Kiyoko Myojo

Kiyoko Myojo  Ph.D.

Professor, Seijo University

Kiyoko Myojo is a professor in the Faculty of Arts and Literature, Seijo University. She established the Research Center for Textual Scholarship at the university in 2022 and is currently the Director. In 1998, she obtained her PhD from the University of Tokyo after studying at the University of Munich for three years. In 2004, she received the "Japan Society for German Literature Award" for her book, The New Kafka (in Japanese). She worked at Saitama University for 20 years, from 2000 to 2010 as an associate professor and then from 2010 to 2020 as a professor. She also served at the "Japan Society for the Promotion of Science" as a program officer from 2014 to 2017. From 2024 to 2025 she is a visiting senior research fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford.

Key Publications

Books

  • (Co-edited with Noburu Notomi), Fake Spectrum: Various Aspects of “Lies” in Literature (in Japanese), Bensei Shuppan, 2022

  • (Co-edited with Arata Ide and Takami Matsuda), Reading “A Booke of Christian Prayers”: Proceedings of the International Workshop at Saitama University: Theory and Practice in Textual Scholarship, Studies in Liberal Arts, Vol. 11 (in Japanese), Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University, 2020

  • (Co-edited with Noburu Notomi), What Is a Text?: An Introduction to Textual Scholarship (in Japanese), Keio University Press, 2015

  • A New Approach to Editing Kafka’s Der Process: Creating a Base Text for Japanese Translation, Variants, vol.17-18, forthcoming

  • Kafka’s Texts on the Centenary of His Death: Dilemmas Surrounding Editing Since The 70th Anniversary of His Passing (in Japanese), Contemporary Philosophy, Vol.51-17, pp.431-447, 2023

  • Fake Love, Fake Letters: On Franz Kafka's “Das Urteil” and “Die Verwandlung” (in Japanese), Fake Spectrum: Various Aspects of “Lies” in Literature, co-edited with Noburu Notomi, Bensei Shuppan, pp.221-245, 2022.

Selected Papers

Selected
Conference
Presentations

  • Concepts of reality in textual scholarship: The case of the posthumous editing of Kafka’s writings: Symposium on the 60th birthday of Prof. Michael Resch, “Reality in Science, Art, and the Humanities”, High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 2024

  • Towards a dynamic edition: making Kafka's writing process accessible to a general audience: The Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory (OCTET), Jesus College, Oxford, UK, Oct. 2024

  • (Co-presented with Cheung Si Wei Rachael): Why literary Researchers Should Care about Editing Practices: The fate of Kafka in China and Japan: International Seminar on Manuscript Studies 2024, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, Oct. 2024

  • (Co-presented with Yasuhiro Sakamoto): How generative AI will revolutionize dynamic editing: Towards an intelligent edition: The 19th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, “Textual Scholarship, Artificial Intelligence, Corpora, and Intelligent Editions," (The European Society for Textual Scholarship), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 2024

  • Further transformations of Kafka’s writings: towards a dynamic edition. : Kafka Transformed International Conference, Wadham College, Oxford, UK, Sep. 2024

  • Can genetic criticism account for the creative role of editing? : The case of Kafka's The Castle, Genesis Bologna 2024, ”Constants and Variants in Genetic Criticism.” University of Bologna, Italy, May 2024

  • Kafka’s Fictional Writings as Disguised Letters, Genesis Taipei 2023: the draft and its environs (presenter and panel chair), National Central University and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Sep. 2023

  • Kafka’s Gamble, The 18th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, “Authorship, Identity, and Textual Scholarship: from Antiquity to Modern days” (The European Society for Textual Scholarship), University of Kent, U.K., Apr. 2023

  • Editing Practices of the Third Generation: How do you introduce Franz Kafka to a Japanese audience? (in German), The 19th International Conference of the Working Group for Germanic Editions: “Edition as Mediation” (The Working Group for Germanic Editions), University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Sep. 2022

  • A New Approach to Editing Kafka’s Der Process: Creating a Base Text for Japanese Translation, The 17th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, “Histories of the Holograph from Ancient to Modern Manuscripts and Beyond” (The European Society for Textual Scholarship), University of Oxford, U.K., Mar. 2022

Awards and
Research Grants

  • 2022-2026, The Third Generation of Editing: Textual Scholarship Research with the Aim to Regenerate the Classics and to Revitalize Literary Studies, MEXT / JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Principal Investigator

  • 2016-2021, Practical Development of Textual Scholarship: Application to Cultural Transmission and Literary Education, MEXT / JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Principal Investigator

  • 2012-2014, A Study Concerning the Archiving and Editing Process of Kafka's Manuscripts: An Attempt at an Interpretation of Kafka's Works as Dynamic Writing, MEXT / JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), Principal Investigator

Contact

Contact

Department of European Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts and Literature,

Seijo University

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Seijo 6-1-20, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8511, Japan

Phone: +81 (0)3-3482-9527

E-mail: kiyoko.myojo [at] seijo.ac.jp

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