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Arisa Nakagoe

Faculty of Humanities
Lecturer/Senior Assistant Professor

Profile[Research Topics] ・Representations of East Asia in 19th-Century British Novels ・Travel Writings on East Asia by 19th-Century British Authors ・Receptions of 19th-Century British Literature in East Asia

Researcher information

■ Degree
  • Master of Studies, University of Oxford
  • Master of Arts, The University of Tokyo
  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Tokyo
■ Research Keyword
  • Nineteenth Century
  • Orientalism
  • Postcolonialism
  • Realism
  • Travelogues
  • Novels
  • Meiji Japan
  • Qing China
  • Victorian Britain
■ Field Of Study
  • Humanities & social sciences, Literature - General, English Literature

Career

■ Career
  • Apr. 2025 - Present
    Fukuoka University, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, Lecturer
  • Oct. 2024 - Mar. 2025
    Institute of Science Tokyo, Institute for Liberal Arts, Part-Time Lecturer
  • Aug. 2023 - Mar. 2025
    The University of Tokyo, Center for Global Communication Strategies, Research Assistant
  • Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025
    Kanagawa University, Faculty of Business Administration, Part-Time Lecturer
  • Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Postgraduate Researcher (DC1)
  • Apr. 2024 - Sep. 2024
    Tokyo Institute of Technology, Institute for Liberal Arts, Part-Time Lecturer
■ Educational Background
  • Apr. 2020 - Present
    The University of Tokyo, PhD, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
  • Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2020
    The University of Tokyo, MA, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
  • Oct. 2018 - Jul. 2019
    University of Oxford, MSt, Faculty of English
  • Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2018
    The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters, BA, English Department
  • Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2016
    The University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences, BA, Human Sciences III

Research activity information

■ Award
  • Feb. 2025
    Sumitomo Life, Woman Researcher Encourgement Prize
    Arisa Nakagoe
  • Oct. 2024
    The Gaskell Society of Japan, Encourgement Prize
    Arisa Nakagoe
  • Jun. 2024
    The 11th Liberlit Conference, First Prize
    The Graduate Presentation Competition
    Arisa Nakagoe
■ Paper
  • The Lady Caged or the Princess Freed: Anne Noble and the Opium War from British and Japanese Perspectives
    Yang Liu; Arisa Nakagoe
    War & Society, Nov. 2025, 0(0):1 - 20, Refereed
  • 'China's Earth and Indian Leaf': Oriental Commodities in Elizabeth Gaskell's Condition-of-England Novels
    Arisa Nakagoe
    Gaskell Studies, Oct. 2024, 34:77 - 92, Refereed
  • 捕われた王女：アヘン戦争期における英公主訛伝の起源
    Yang Liu; Arisa Nakagoe
    China: Society and Culture, Jul. 2024, 39:96 - 113, Refereed
  • 'A Taste for Reading': Edward Petherick's Lists of Selected Books for Children in "The Torch and Colonial Book Circular" (1887-92)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The University of Tokyo: Reading, Jan. 2020, 40:18 - 37, Refereed
  • 'Making Money out of the Dead': Financial Aspects of "The Life of Charlotte Brontë" (1857)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    Gaskell Studies, Sep. 2019, 29:25 - 40, Refereed
  • Chinese Commodities and British Characters: Tea, Opium and Silk in Charles Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend" (1864-65)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The University of Tokyo: Reading, Mar. 2019, 39:3 - 16, Refereed
  • Mr. Hopper's Australia and Miss Worsley's America: Representations of the New World in Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1893) and "A Woman of No Importance" (1893)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The University of Tokyo: Reading, Mar. 2019, 39:17 - 36, Refereed
  • 'Unintelligible' Asians and Animals: A Comparison of Thomas De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" (1821) and Charles Dickens's "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (1870)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The Japan Branch Bulletin: The Dickens Fellowship, Nov. 2018, 41:3 - 18, Refereed
■ MISC
  • [Book Review] Debra Gettelman "Imagining Otherwise: How Readers Help to Write Nineteenth-Century Novels" (2024)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    Studies in Victorian Culture, Nov. 2025, 23:143 - 147
  • [Book Review] Tomoe Kumojima "Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable Friendship" (2022)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    Fukuoka University Review of Literature and Humanities, Sep. 2025, 57(2):435 - 441
  • [Short Essay] Studying at Oxford: The Days of Sweetness and Light
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The Japan Branch Bulletin: The Dickens Fellowship, Dec. 2021, 44:58 - 64
  • [書評] 廣野由美子『批評理論入門 : 「フランケンシュタイン」解剖講義』(2005)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    Fukuoka University OPAC, Jan. 2026
  • [Conference Proceedings] Hats and Kimonos: Cross-Cultural Dressing in Isabella Bird's "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" (1880)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The English Literary Society of Japan, May 2023
  • [Conference Proceedings] 'A Might Have Been on the Other Side': Laurence Oliphant's Missions to and Japan in Margaret Oliphant's "Memoir" (1891)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    Kanto Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, Oct. 2022
  • [Research Note] A Trilingual Creature: Language Learning in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" (1818)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    Sophia Journal of European Studies, Mar. 2019, 11:107 - 123
  • [Book Review] Tanya Agathocleus "Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century: Visible City, Invisible World" (2011)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The Japan Branch Bulletin: The Dickens Fellowship, Nov. 2014, 37:21 - 25
■ Books and other publications
  • 新訳：北と南
    Mieko Matsumoto; Ryota Kanayama; Miwa Ota; Tatsuhiro Ohno; Ruri Yajima; Tomoko Uda; Izumi Kashiwagi; Tomoko Kanda; Akiyuki Omae; Kotaro Murakami; Mariko Nagahama; Aiko Matsuura; Arisa Nakagoe; Junko Kawai; Mitsuki Ezawa; Yuriko Hayakawa; Aiko Saiki; Nanae Hama; Masako Kimura; Yuko Ota, Masuko Adachi, Hanako Endo, Joint translation, Volume 1 Chapter 25 "Frederick", Volume 2 Chapter 1 "Mother and Son", Volume 2 Chapter 2 "Fruit-Piece", pp. 202-222, Elizabeth Gaskell
    Osaka Kyouiku Tosho, Nov. 2025
    9784271310440
  • Dickens and the Anatomy of Evil: Sesquicentennial Essays
    Mitsuharu Matsuoka; Paul Schlicke; Kotaro Murakami; Mark Weeks; Mio Hatada; Mizuki Tsutsui; Ryota Kanayama; Yasuki Kihara; Nanako Konoshima; Tomoya Watanabe; Hiroshi Enomoto; Manami Tamura; Aya Yatsugi; Keiko Inokuma; Keiko Kiriyama; Arisa Nakagoe; Masayo Hasegawa; Fumie Tamai; Sari Nishigaki; Akiko Kimura; Yasuhiko Matsumoto, Joint work, Chapter 15 'Foreigners are Always Immoral': Rigaud and Cavalletto in "Little Dorrit", pp. 259-276
    Athena Press, Dec. 2020
    9784863403376
■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
  • The China Question: Harriet Martineau, Thomas De Quincey, and the Opium Wars
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The 55th Meeting. Victorian Studies Workshop. Doshisha University, Imadegawa Campus., 14 Sep. 2025
  • A Royal Rumour: Cross-Cultural Transformations of Anne Noble's Captivity Narrative During the Opium War
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The 11th Liberlit Conference. Seikei University., 15 Jun. 2024
  • A Mandarin's Dinner Party: Food and Hospitality in Constance Gordon Cumming's "Wanderings in China" (1886)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    Comparative Empire: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation, 1750-1914. The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. World Congress. Singapore Management University., 19 Jun. 2023
  • Hats and Kimonos: Cross-Cultural Dressing in Isabella Bird's "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" (1880)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The 95th Annual Conference. The English Literary Society of Japan. Kanto Gakuin University, Sekiuchi Campus., 21 May 2023
  • Blue Eyes and Yellow Faces: Issues of Eurasian Children in Alicia Little's "A Marriage in China" (1896)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    English Literature and the Pacific. One-Day Symposium. Meiji University., 21 Jan. 2023
  • 'A Might Have Been on the Other Side': Laurence Oliphant's Missions to China and Japan in Margaret Oliphant's "Memoir" (1891)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The 22nd Conference. Kanto Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan. At Chuo University, Ichigaya-Tamachi Campus., 30 Oct. 2022
  • 'China's Earth and Indian Leaf': Oriental Commodities in Elizabeth Gaskell's Condition-of-England Novels
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The 34th Annual Conference. The Gaskell Society of Japan. Japan Red Cross College of Nursing., 01 Oct. 2022
  • 'To Know Something About China': Harriet Martineau and the Opium Wars
    Arisa Nakagoe
    COEDA 2022: Rupture and Continuity. The Coalition of English Departments in Asia. Seoul National University. Online., 16 Sep. 2022
  • エリザベス・ギャスケルの『北と南』における日本語訳の諸問題 (第25章〜第27章)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The Gaskell Society of Japan. Online., 12 May 2024
  • 捕らわれた王女：アヘン戦争期におけるアン・ノーブル伝説の起源
    Liu Yang; Arisa Nakagoe
    The 15th Workshop. Society of Asian History of Exchanges. Daito Bunka University., 26 Jan. 2024
  • Exploring the East: Victorian Travel Writing on China and Japan
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The 46th Meeting. Victorian Studies Workshop. The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus., 28 Mar. 2023
  • Reviewing Tomoe Kumojima's "Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable Friendship" (2022)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    The 44th Meeting. Victorian Studies Workshop. The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus., 17 Sep. 2022
  • Olfactory and Gustatory Senses in Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" (1843)
    Arisa Nakagoe
    UTokyo & NTU Conference: Emerging Medical Narratives. The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus., 10 Dec. 2019
  • The Linguistic and Literary Lineage of Frankenstein's Monster
    Arisa Nakagoe
    Dr. Nahoko Alvey. Workshop: Reading "Frankenstein and the Origin and Extinction of Species" with Professor Alan Bewell. The University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus., 11 Jul. 2018
■ Courses
  • Aspects of British and American Culture and Literature
    Apr. 2026 - Present
    Fukuoka University
  • English for Academics
    Apr. 2026 - Present
    Fukuoka University
  • Media English
    Apr. 2026 - Present
    Fukuoka University
  • Advanced English
    Apr. 2026 - Present
    Fukuoka University
  • Intermediate English
    Apr. 2025 - Present
    Fukuoka University
  • Practical English
    Apr. 2025 - Present
    Fukuoka University
  • Core English
    Apr. 2025 - Present
    Fukuoka University
  • English Reading
    Apr. 2025 - Present
    Fukuoka University
  • English Writing
    Apr. 2025 - Mar. 2026
    Fukuoka University
  • Oral Expression in English
    Oct. 2024 - Mar. 2025
    Institute of Science Tokyo
  • TOEFL Seminar
    Oct. 2024 - Mar. 2025
    Institute of Science Tokyo
  • Intermediate English
    Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025
    Kanagawa University
  • Oral Expression in English
    Apr. 2024 - Sep. 2024
    Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • TOEFL Seminar
    Apr. 2024 - Sep. 2024
    Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Elementary English
    Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2023
    Kanagawa University
■ Affiliated academic society
  • The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
  • The Victorian Studies Society of Japan
  • The English Literary Society of Japan
  • The Gaskell Society of Japan
  • The Dickens Fellowship Japan Branch
■ Research Themes
  • 19世紀イギリスの未出版旅行記における日本と中国
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
    Fukuoka University
    Aug. 2025 - Mar. 2027
  • 19世紀イギリスの女性作家・旅行家が描いた日本と中国
    Sumitomo Life, Woman Researcher Grant
    Apr. 2025 - Mar. 2027
  • 19世紀のイギリス人女性作家・旅行家の作品における日本と中国の表象
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Special Grants-in-Aid for Research
    The University of Tokyo
    Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2025
  • 19世紀のイギリス人女性作家・旅行家の作品における日本と中国の表象
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow
    The University of Tokyo
    Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025
  • 19世紀のイギリス文学におけるアジア・アジア人表象
    The University of Tokyo, World-Leading Innovative Graduate Study Program
    The University of Tokyo
    Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2020
■ Media Coverage
  • 対談から探る日中のこれから：文化から交流を

    The University of Tokyo Newspaper, 22 Sep. 2015, Paper
■ Academic Contribution Activities
  • [Student Helper] Romantic Regenerations: International Conference
    Planning etc
    Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo, Jul. 2018
  • [Student Helper] Pacific Gateways: International Symposium on English Literature and the Pacific Ocean
    Planning etc
    Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo, Nov. 2017
  • [Student Helper] History of Consumer Culture: Objects, Desire and Sociability
    Planning etc
    Gakushuin University, Mar. 2017
  • [Teaching Assistant] IARU Global Summer Program Tour
    Planning etc
    The University of Tokyo, Jul. 2018
  • [Student Helper] The 90th Annual Conference of the English Literary Society of Japan
    Planning etc
    Tokyo Women's Christian University, Mar. 2018
  • [Student Helper] The Annual General Meeting of the Dickens Fellowship Japan Branch
    Planning etc
    Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo, Oct. 2017
■ Others
  • 東京大学フューチャー・ファカルティ・プログラム

    Apr. 2022 - Jul. 2022
  • 東京大学国際卓越大学院次世代育成プログラム

    Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2020
  • 東京大学トライリンガル・プログラム中国語コース

    Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2018
  • 東京大学上級中国語北京研修プログラム

    Nov. 2016
  • 南京大学サマースクール中国語プログラム

    Aug. 2015
  • TOEIC 990
  • IELTS 8.5
  • 漢語水平考試 6級
  • 英語技能検定 1級