Researcher Profile and Settings

Name

• Name

  TOMOAKI Suwa

ID

• ID

  30633408

Education, Etc.

• Waseda University
• Waseda University
• University College Dublin, Ireland, School of English, Drama and Film, Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama

Job

• University College Dublin, Applied Language Center, Tutor (Japanese Language)
• Waseda University, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Science, Research Associate
• Tokyo Joggakan College, Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Assistant Professor
• Tokyo University of Agriculture, Faculty of International Agriculture and Food Studies, Assistant Professor
• Waseda University, The Institute for Irish Studies, Adjunct Researcher

Researcher Profile and Settings

Research Areas

• Irish Literature and Culture, Poetry in English, and Japanese Poetry

Researcher Profile and Settings

Published Papers

• Revisiting the Debate over the Bollingen Prize Controversy about Ezra Pound: Beyond the Binary Opposition between Form and Content, Mar. 2023, Tomoaki Suwa, Ezra Pound Review, Ezra Pound Society in Japan
• W. B. Yeats and the Blueshirts: The Poetics of Irish Fascism in the 1930s, Mar. 2023, Tomoaki Suwa
• From Nameless Love to Named One: De Profundis and Homosexuality, 2022, Tomoaki Suwa, Journal of Jissen English Department, Department of English, Jissen Women's University, 74, 19 - 30
• American "flilthy modern tide"――Modernity and W. B. Yeats for New Critics in the South, Mar. 2021, Tomoaki Suwa, The Faculty of Letters of Jissen Women's University, The Faculty of Letters of Jissen Women's University, 63, 1 - 10
• Initiation into the Other: Seamus Heaney's Reading of W.B. Yeats Reconsidered, Oct. 2015, Tomoaki Suwa, Journal of Irish Studies, 30, 49 - 59
• Identification with Europe in Ireland: The Social and Literary Representations, Mar. 2015, Tomoaki Suwa, Bulletin of Tokyo Joggakan College, 12, 57 - 64
• Overcoming Modernity: Fascism for W.B.Yeats and Ezra Pound, Mar. 2014, Tomoaki Suwa, Waseda Contemporary Literary Studies, 4, 49 - 56
• Why Has Japanese Poetry Had No Stories?: Birth and Development of Modern Japanese Epic, Mar. 2013, Tomoaki Suwa, Waseda Studies of Modern Literature, 3, 91 - 100
• Thomas Davis: Gaelic Ireland Represented by English Language, Mar. 2012, Tomoaki Suwa, Horizon (Waseda University), 44, 16 - 29
• Counter-Ireland: W. B. Yeats and Education under the Free State, Dec. 2011, Tomoaki Suwa, Bulletin of the Graduate Division of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University, 57, 19 - 30
• Toward the Posthumanity?: The Un-Endings in Gulliver’s Travels, Mar. 2011, Tomoaki Suwa, Horizon (Waseda University), 43, 43 - 51
• Absence in Republic of Conscience: Seamus Heaney after the Mid-1980s, Mar. 2011, Tomoaki Suwa, English Literature: Appreciation and Study (Waseda University), 97, 13 - 23
• The Making of the Modern Irish Artist: Nation and Another Europe in William Butler Yeats’s Autobiographies, Aug. 2010, 諏訪　友亮, Master Dissertation, University College Dublin
• Nation as a Symbol: The Poetics of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Poets and Nationalism, Mar. 2007, Tomoaki Suwa, Master Disseration, Waseda University

Published Book

• Affect of Love in Seamus Heaney's Poetry: Empathizing Women and the Other, Mar. 2021, Tomoaki SUWA, Tsurumi Shoten, 362 - 369
• A Translation of Cantos VII by Ezra Pound, Mar. 2018, Tomoaki Suwa, The Ezra Pound Society of Japan, 89 - 104
• Book Review, Yeats and Modern Poetry by Edna Longley, Dec. 2014, Tomoaki Suwa, The Yeats Society of Japan, 79 - 81
• Book Review, In Search of Joyce by Mari Nakao, Mar. 2014, Tomoaki Suwa
• Book Review: "'Careful Excess': Irish Things Telling Tales by Nobuaki Tochigi", Jul. 2013, Tomoaki Suwa
• Book Review, "'An Epiphany after Losing Your Home': Brooklyn by Colm Toibin Translated by Nobuaki Tochigi, Oct. 2012, Tomoaki Suwa

Conference Activities & Talks

• De Profundis and Robert Ross: The Posthumous Ascendency, Dec. 2022, Tomoaki Suwa, The 47th Annual Conference of the Oscar Wilde Society of Japan, The Oscar Wilde Society of Japan, Tokyo
• Poetry and Popularity: Bodies in the Classroom, 18 Jun. 2022, Chair: Tomoaki Suwa, Speakers: Masahiko Abe, Shigeyoshi Hara, Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, 21st Conference of Kanto Branch of English Literary Society of Japan, Kanto Branch of English Literary Society of Japan, Tokyo
• From Nameless Love to Named One: De Profundis and Homosexuality in Britain and Ireland, 17 Nov. 2021, Tomoaki Suwa, Jissen Women’s University Open Lecture, Oscar Wilde and Dr Hisao Honma: Celebrating the New Digital Collection, Oscar Wilde Scrapbooks, Jissen Women's University
• Czesław Miłosz: A Branch of Eastern Europe in American Poetry, 30 Jan. 2021, Tomoaki Suwa, Regular Meeting, January, 2020-21, The Tokyo American Literature Society
• Perspectives of W. B. Yeats as “World Literature” (2), Nov. 2017, Miki Iwata, Akiyo Suzuki, Tomoaki Suwa, Nobuaki Tochigi, The 53rd Annual Conference of the Yeats Society of Japan, The Yeats Society of Japan
• Rethinking of Nationalism for Yeats, Nov. 2015, Ken'ichi Kihara, Tomoaki Suwa, Seishi Matsuda, The 51st Conference of the Yeats Society of Japan
• Persona and Voice in Cantos: Reading Canto III and Canto VII , Nov. 2014, Jun-ichi Koizumi, Tomoaki Suwa, Akiko Yamanaka, The 36th Conference of the Ezra Pound Society of Japan
• An Initiation into the Other: Seamus Heaney’s Reception of W.B.Yeats, Oct. 2014, Tomoaki Suwa, The 31st International Conference of IASIL Japan
• Anxiety Haunting the Artist in the Free State: W. B. Yeats's The Bounty of Sweden, Oct. 2013, Tomoaki Suwa, The 49th Conference of the Yeats Society of Japan
• Why Have Japanese Poetry Had No Stories?, Nov. 2012, Tomoaki Suwa, The 3rd Conference of Association of Waseda Creative Writing and Criticism
• Reading Fascism in Poets: The Cases of Yeats and Pound, Oct. 2012, Tomoaki Suwa, The 34th Conference of the Ezra Pound Society of Japan
• Ezra Pound and Fascism: Reading Canto XLI, Oct. 2012, Mamoru Mukaiyama,Tomoaki Suwa, Akiyoshi MIyake, The 34st Conference of the Ezra Pound Society of Japan
• Does an Affect of Love Lead Us to Others?: Women in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Oct. 2010, Motoko Sugano, Yumi Kawamura, Tomoaki Suwa, The 1st Graduate Symposium of Department of English, Waseda University
• Absence in the Republic of Conscience: Seamus Heaney after the Mid-1980s, Nov. 2007, Tomoaki Suwa, 早稲田大学英文学会・教育学部英語英文学会2007年度合同大会

Awards & Honors

• Government of Ireland International Scholarship, Tomoaki Suwa

Competitive funds

• Counter-Irishness in the Free States (1922-37): W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Frank O'Conner and F. Stuart, Tomoaki Suwa, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Education · Student guidance

Lesson

• Seminar for Bachelor Thesis
• First-Year Seminar
• Seminar D in British Literature and Culture
• Poetry in English

Researcher Profile and Settings

Academic association activities

• The Oscar Wilde Society of Japan)
• The Tokyo American Literature Society
• International Association for the Studies of Irish Literatures
• The Ezra Pound Society of Japan
• The Society of Waseda Literary Criticism and Journalism
• Modern Language Association
• The English Literary Society of Japan
• The Yeats Society of Japan
• Japan-Ireland Society
• Waseda English Literary Society

Outside campus committee activities

• Preparatory Committee Member, Kanto Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan
• Executive Board Member, The Yeats Society of Japan
• Secretary General, The Yeats Society of Japan
• The International Yeats Society and the Yeats Society of Japan Joint Symposium in Kyoto 2018, The Yeats Society of Japan
• Assistant Editor, The Ezra Pound Society of Japan
• A Board Member of Website Management, The Yeats Society of Japan