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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

  • Kafka Unkafkaesque (in Japanese), Keio University Press, 2014 (Korean version published from Munhakdongne Publishing Group in 2017)

  •    (Co-translated with Masahide Kanzaki) Electronic Textual Editing, Lou Bernard et al., Keio University Press, 2011

  •    (Co-translated with Yuzuru Okubo and Masahide Kanzaki) From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts, Peter Shillingsburg, Keio University Press, 2009

  •    (Translated with an afterword for Japanese readers) Kafka: A Very Short Introduction, Ritchie Robertson, Iwanami Shoten, 2008

  • The New Kafka: How Editing Changes the Text (in Japanese), Keio University Press, 2002

  •    (Translated from German) Netzkarte, Sten Nadolny, Dougakusha, 1998

Selected Papers

  • 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.

  • An Interim Report on the Possible Writing Sequence for “Gespräch mit Frau Grubach”, “Erste Untersuchung”, and “Im leeren Sitzungssaal”: An Editing and Translation Project of Der Process by Franz Kafka (in Japanese), co-written with Takuto Nito, and Shunsuke Moribayashi, European Culture Studies, Seijo University Graduate School of Literature (42), pp.143-162, 2022

  • 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

  • Editing in the “Third Generation”: An Editing and Translation Project of Der Process by Franz Kafka (in Japanese), Saitama University Review (Faculty of Liberal Arts), Vol.56(No.2), pp.151-164, 2021

  • Issues in the Editing of the "Translatable Text": An Editing and Translation Project of Der Process by Franz Kafka (in Japanese), co-written with Shunsuke Moribayashi, Yu Tomizuka, Saitama University Review (Faculty of Liberal Arts), Vol.55(No.1), pp.143-155, 2019

  • What is a Text? : Kafka’s Posthumous Manuscripts (in Japanese), What Is a Text?: An Introduction to Textual Scholarship, co-edited  with Noburu Notomi, by  Keio University Press, pp.221-244, 2015

  • The Functions of “Zenshu” in Japanese Book Culture: Practices and Problems of Modern Textual Editing in Japan, Variants 10, The European Society for Textual Scholarship, pp.257-267, 2013

  • The Melancholy of Kafka Studies: Literary Works in the Age of Advanced Reproduction Techniques (in Japanese), Illustrations and Paratexts of Rare Books, edited by Takami Matsuda, Keio University Press, pp.1-29, 2012

  • Exploring the Boundaries: On the Editing and Translation of Kafka (in Japanese) , Literature, Vol. 13(No.4), Iwanami Shoten, pp.112-126, 2012

  • Textual Scholarship as a Bridge “Between Philology and Hermeneutics”: Discussing the Translation of Terminology”, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference “Between Philology and Hermeneutics”, Nagoya University, pp.75-81, 2011

  • Beyond Good and Evil in Editing: Kafka, Manuscripts, and Textual Scholarship (in Japanese), Literature, Vol.11(No.5), Iwanami Shoten, pp.188-201, 2010

  • Contemplating the Foundation of Literary Studies for the Future: Synthesizing Scholarly Editing and Archival Science (in Japanese), Journal of the Japan Society for Archival Science, pp.92-111, 2009

  • “LiterarySpace”: A New Integrated Database System for Humanities Research, co-written with Shinichiro Sugo, Conference Abstracts Digital Humanities 2008, The Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, pp.260-262, 2008

  • Kafka and His Japanese Contemporary Kenji: On the Posthumous “Writing” of the Two Authors (in German), Saitama University Review (Faculty of Liberal Arts), Vol.39(No. 2), pp.215-225, 2004

  • The End of the “Authentic Text”: An Attempt at an Overview of the History of German Textual Scholarship (in Japanese), Saitama University Review (Faculty of Liberal Arts), Vol.36(No.2), pp.197-207, 2001

  • “The Private” and “the Public” - Considerations on Franz Kafka’s Das Schloß (in Japanese), German Literature, No. 99, The Japanese Society for German Studies, pp.80-90, 1997

  • “Der Jäger Gracchus” in a New Textual Form: The Significance and Limitations of the Critical Edition of Kafka’s Complete Works (in German), Poetry and Language, No.51, Department of German Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, pp.21-30, 1996

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

  •     The Contradictory Task of The Scholarly Translator, The 8th Annual Conference of the European Society   for Textual Scholarship: “InterNational and InterDisiplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing” (The European Society for Textual Scholarship / The Working Group for Germanic Editions), University of Bern, Switzerland, Feb. 2012

  • 　Images Which Were Not to Be Reproduced: Ironic Aspects of Kafka’s Texts, Parker Library-Keio EIRI Conference on Medieval Manuscripts and Printed Books: “Text, Image and the Digital Research Environment”, University of Cambridge, U.K., Sep. 2011

  • 　Public Editing and/or Private Editing: Changes in the Concept of Publication in the Digital Age, International Conference: “New Directions in Textual Scholarship”, Saitama University, Japan, Mar. 2010

  • 　“Zenshu”s Functions in Japanese Literary Studies: Practices and Problems of Modern Textual Editing in Japan, The 7th International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (The European Society for Textual Scholarship), Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy, Nov. 2010

  • 　Textual Scholarship as a Bridge “between Philology and Hermeneutics”: Discussing the Translation of Terminology, The 11th International Conference “Between Philology and Hermeneutics” (Global COE Program, Nagoya University), Nagoya University, Japan, Dec. 2009

  • 　Struggling with Soseki: Practices and Problems of Modern Textual Editing in Japan, The STS 14th Biennial International Conference (The Society for Textual Scholarship), New York University, U.S.A., Mar. 2009

  • 　LiterarySpace: A New Integrated Database System for Humanities Research, co-presented with Shin’ichiro Sugo, Digital Humanities 2008 (The 20th Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing), University of Oulu, Finland, Jun. 2008

  •    What is an “Authorized Text”?: Critical Editing and the Case of Kenji Miyazawa, The 11th International Forum on Publishing Studies, Wuhan University, China, Oct. 2004

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

  • 2011-2015, Comprehensive Research Concerning Western Textual Scholarship: Towards a Critical Reception of the Humanities in Japan, MEXT / JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Principal Investigator

  • 2009-2010, Some Observations on the Digitization of Texts for Literary Research Based on Theories of Scholarly Editing, Inamori Research Grants, Principal Investigator

  • 2006-2009, The Possibility that a Digital Archive will replace an author's Complete Works: In Search of a New Age of Philology Based on Textual Scholarship, MEXT / JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Principal Investigator

  • 2004,Received the Japanese Society for German Studies Award for my book The New Kafka: How Editing Changes the Text

  • 2002-2004, New Possibilities for Texts Pioneered by Digital Media: Contemplating Future Scholarly Editing. MEXT / JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Principal Investigator

  • 2001, JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results (The New Kafka: How Editing Changes the Text)

  • 2000-2001, The Current State of Computer-Aided Scholarly Editing, MEXT / JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Scientists, Principal Investigator

  • 1993-1994, Recipient of a scholarship from the Rotary Foundation

    *Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research are awarded to original research conducted by one or a relatively small number of researchers for a period of 3 to 5 years, the amount for A is 20 million to 50 million yen, B is 5 million to 20 million yen, C is 5 million yen or less)

Books
Papers
Prsentations
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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

Contact

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

Seijo University

​

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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