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.
Selected Publications
Books
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Fake Spectrum: Various Aspects of “Lies” in Literature (in Japanese), co-edited with Noburu Notomi, Bensei shuppan, 2022.
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What Is a Text?: An Introduction to Textual Scholarship (in Japanese) , co-edited with Noburu Notomi, Keio University Press, 2015
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Kafka Unkafkaesk (in Japanese), Keio University Press, 2014
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How Do You Edit "Verhaftung" and "Ende"? : An Editing and Translation Project of Der Process by Franz Kafka (in Japanese), co-written with Takuto Nito, Shunsuke Moribayashi, The Seijo University Arts and Literature Quarterly, Number257, pp.29-51, 2021
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Editing in the "Third Generation" : An Editing and Translation Project of Der Process by Franz Kafka (in Japanese), Saitama Universtity Review (Faculty of Liberal Arts), Vol.56(No.2), pp.151-164, 2021
Papers
Presentations
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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, Sep. 2023
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Kafka’s Gamble, The European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) annual conference, University of Kent, Apr. 2023
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Editionspraxis der Dritten Generation: Wie vermittelt man Franz Kafka einem japanischen Publikum? , Plenartagung "Edition als Vermittlung", Die 19. internationale Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für germanistische Editon, Universität Klagenfurt, Sep. 2022
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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, Mar. 2022
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The Contradictory Task of The Scholarly Translator, The 8th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, “InterNational and InterDisciplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing” (The European Society for Textual Scholarship / Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Germanistische Edition), University of Bern, Switzerland, Feb. 2012
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Images Which Were Not to Be Reproduced: Ironic Aspects of Kafka’s Texts, Cambridge University, Parker Library-Keio EIRI Conference on Medieval Manuscripts and Printed Books: “Text, Image and the Digital Research Environment”, University of Cambridge, Sep. 2011
Research Grants
Awarded
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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
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2016-2021, The Practices of Textual Scholarship: Towards Application for Cultural Preservation and Literary Education, MEXT / JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Principal Investigator
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2011-2015, Comprehensive Research Concerning Western Textual Scholarship: Towards a Critical Reception into the Humanities in Japan, MEXT / JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Principal Investigator
Contact
Department of European Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts and Literature,
Seijo 6-1-20, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8511, Japan
Phone: +81 (0)3-3482-9527
E-mail: kiyoko.myojo [at] seijo.ac.jp