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bevuan guretsugu

General Education Center
Professor

Researcher information

■ Degree
  • Master of Fine Arts: Writing
■ Field Of Study
  • Humanities & social sciences, Literature - British/English-languag

Career

■ Educational Background
  • Sep. 1994 - Jun. 1996
    University of Virginia, English, MFA

Research activity information

■ Paper
  • Perfomance Appraisal: Reinterpreting Tropic of Orange
    Greg Bevan
    Literature, Mar. 2023, Refereed
    Lead
  • Bowles’ Up Above the World as Beatnik Murder Mystery
    Greg Bevan
    CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture, Dec. 2016, Refereed
    Lead
  • Change of Key: A Reinterpretation of Paul Bowles’ The Delicate Prey
    Greg Bevan
    Studies in English Literature, Mar. 2015, Refereed
    Lead
  • Perception and the Postwar in Paul Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky
    Greg Bevan
    Fukuoka University Review of Literature and Humanities, Jun. 2022
    Lead
  • Charting a False Course in Robert Stone’s Outerbridge Reach
    Greg Bevan
    The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan, Mar. 2021, Refereed
    Lead
  • No Comment: Depictions of the Transnational in Paul Bowles’ Points in Time
    Greg Bevan
    Journal of Keio American Studies, Sep. 2020, Refereed
  • A Lingering Sense of Absence in the Fiction of Vladimir Nabokov
    Greg Bevan
    Fukuoka University Review of Literature and Humanities, Sep. 2019
    Lead
  • Seeking the Inaccessible in Robert Stone’s A Flag for Sunrise
    Greg Bevan
    Bulletin of the Central Research Institute, Fukuoka University, Humanities Series A, Jan. 2017, Refereed
    Lead
  • Orientalist on Trial: The Evidence of Paul Bowles’ Travels
    Greg Bevan
    Bulletin of the Central Research Institute, Fukuoka University, Humanities Series A, Nov. 2013, Refereed
    Lead
  • Progenitors Confronted: Poe’s ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ and Bowles’ ‘In the Red Room
    Greg Bevan
    Journal of the Poe Society of Japan, Sep. 2011, Refereed
    Lead
  • “Language Awareness, the Native-Speaking English Instructor, and the Japanese University
    Greg Bevan
    Fukuoka University Review of Literature and Humanities, Jun. 2011
    Lead
  • Paul Bowles’ The Time of Friendship and the Scope of Expatriate Literature
    Greg Bevan
    Kyushu American Literature, Nov. 2010, Refereed
  • Modes of Consciousness: Paul Bowles’ ‘The Hours After Noon’ and ‘Too Far From Home'
    Greg Bevan
    Bulletin of the Central Research Institute, Fukuoka University, Humanities Series A, Nov. 2010, Refereed
    Lead
  • "The Sentience of All Vegetable Things": Paul Bowles, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Paranormal
    Greg Bevan
    The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan, Mar. 2010, Refereed
    Lead
  • Early Reports of the Death of God: Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky and Camus’ The Stranger
    Greg Bevan
    Kyushu American Literature, Nov. 2008, Refereed
    Lead
  • Ode to a Night Game: Popular Culture and Irony in Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter
    Greg Bevan
    The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan, Mar. 2008, Refereed
    Lead
  • Outside and Beyond Life: Paul Bowles’ Nonconfessional Fiction
    Greg Bevan
    Kyushu Studies in English Literature, Mar. 2007, Refereed
    Lead
  • Beyond the Father and Son: The Rise of Modern Morocco in Bowles’ The Spider’s House
    Greg Bevan
    The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan, Feb. 2007, Refereed
  • Two Approaches to Genre-Based Writing Instruction: A Comparative Study
    Greg Bevan; Catherine Matsuo
    Fukuoka University Review of Literature and Humanities, Mar. 2006
    Corresponding
  • The American Journey Abroad: Bowles’ Let It Come Down and Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King
    Greg Bevan
    Kyushu Studies in English Literature, Mar. 2006, Refereed
    Lead
  • A Twenty-First-Century View of Bowles’ Let It Come Down
    Greg Bevan
    Fukuoka University Review of Literature and Humanities, Dec. 2005
    Lead
  • Russell Banks’ The Sweet Hereafter and the Critical Quest for Blame
    Greg Bevan
    Kyushu American Literature, Nov. 2005, Refereed
    Lead
  • “The Impossible Flight: Paul Bowles’ ‘The Echo’
    Greg Bevan
    Fukuoka University Review of Literature and Humanities, Sep. 2005
    Lead
  • The Desert of Insight: Orientalism and Paul Bowles
    Greg Bevan
    Kyushu American Literature, Nov. 2004, Refereed
    Lead
  • "The Dark Apollo": The Portrayal of Science in Alice Munro’s "Vandals"
    Greg Bevan
    Kyushu American Literature, Nov. 2002, Refereed
    Lead
■ MISC
  • William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion
    Greg Bevan
    Studies in English Literature, Dec. 2017
    Lead
  • Henry D. Thoreau: His Educational Philosophy and Observation of Nature
    Greg Bevan
    Studies in American Literature, Mar. 2015
    Lead
  • Melville and the Wall of the Modern Age
    Greg Bevan
    The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan, Mar. 2012
    Lead
  • Nakapunxet
    Greg Bevan
    Portland Review (Portland State University), Jul. 2007, Refereed
    Lead
  • Outside the Aquarium
    Greg Bevan
    Salt Hill (Syracuse University), Nov. 2005, Refereed
    Lead
  • North Woods
    Greg Bevan
    Northwest Review (University of Oregon), Jun. 1996, Refereed
    Lead
■ Books and other publications
  • Paul Bowles - The New Generation: Do You Bowles?
    Anabela Duarte; Editor, Contributor, The Perceptual is Political: Modes of Consciousness in The Spider's House
    Rodopi, Dec. 2014
    9789042039087
  • Reflections on Narrative: Interdisciplinary Storytelling
    Stansbie, Lisa; Borlescu; Ana Maria; Editors, Contributor, Drawing from the Well: Paul Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, and the Notion of Authorship
    Interdisciplinary Press, Oct. 2013
    9781848882454
  • ポストモダン・アメリカ : 一九八〇年代のアメリカ小説
    安河内, 英光; 馬塲, 弘利, Contributor, リチャード・フォード『スポーツライター』--リアリズムの政治的含意
    開文社出版, Dec. 2009
    9784875710547
■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
  • No Comment: Depictions of the Transnational in Paul Bowles’ Points in Time
    Greg Bevan
    First Annual International Conference of Keio University’s American Studies Association, Dec. 2019
  • "Imminence of Breakthrough": Transcending the Material in Robert Stone’s Bear and His Daughter
    Greg Bevan
    29th Annual Conference of the English & American Literature Association, Taiwan, Oct. 2021
  • Perception and the Postwar in Paul Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky
    Greg Bevan
    27th Annual Conference of the English & American Literature Association, Taiwan, Nov. 2019
  • Charting a False Course in Robert Stone’s Outerbridge Reach
    Greg Bevan
    26th Annual Conference of the English & American Literature Association, Taiwan, Oct. 2018
  • Myth and Insight in William T. Vollmann’s Last Stories and Other Stories
    Greg Bevan
    63rd Annual Kyushu American Literature Conference, May 2017
  • Seeking the Inaccessible in Robert Stone’s A Flag for Sunrise
    Greg Bevan
    23rd Annual Conference of the English & American Literature Association, Taiwan, Oct. 2015
  • Destruction of the Ego in Paul Bowles’ Up Above the World
    Greg Bevan
    European Beat Studies Network Third Annual Conference, Nov. 2014
  • Crazy Rhythm: The Significance of Music in Paul Bowles’ The Delicate Prey
    Greg Bevan
    86th Annual Conference of the English Literary Society of Japan, May 2014
  • Drawing from the Well: Paul Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, and the Notion of Authorship
    Greg Bevan
    Second Global Conference on Storytelling, Nov. 2012
  • Missing Persons Report: Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
    Greg Bevan
    57th Annual Kyushu American Literature Society Conference, May 2011
  • Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
    Greg Bevan
    Fukuoka Research Society of American Novels, Mar. 2011
  • Predecessors and Parents Confronted: Poe’s "The Cask of Amontillado" and Bowles’ "In the Red Room"
    Greg Bevan
    3rd Annual Conference of the Poe Society of Japan, Sep. 2010
  • Ways of Knowing in The Spider’s House
    Greg Bevan
    Paul Bowles Centennial-International Conference, Sep. 2010
  • Modes of Consciousness: Paul Bowles’ "The Hours After Noon" and "Too Far From Home"
    Greg Bevan
    56th Annual Kyushu American Literature Society Conference, May 2010
  • Citizens of Somewhere Else: Dis-Locating American Literature (Baldwin, Melville, Bowles)
    Greg Bevan; David Farnell; Taras Sak
    48th Annual Conference of the American Literature Society of Japan, Oct. 2009
  • Paul Bowles’ "Doña Faustina" and the Shadow of "Usher"
    Greg Bevan
    1st Annual Conference of the Poe Society of Japan, Sep. 2008
  • The Reagan Eighties, Realism, and Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter
    Greg Bevan
    54th Annual Kyushu American Literature Society Conference, May 2008
  • Early Reports of the Death of God: Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky and Camus’ The Stranger
    Greg Bevan
    53rd Annual Kyushu American Literature Society Conference, May 2007
  • Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter
    Greg Bevan
    Fukuoka Research Society of American Novels, Sep. 2006
  • Beyond the Father and Son: Two Cultures Meet in Bowles’ The Spider’s House
    Greg Bevan
    52nd Annual Kyushu American Literature Society Conference, May 2006
  • The American Journey Abroad: Bowles’ Let It Come Down and Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King
    Greg Bevan
    58th Annual Kyushu English Literature Society Conference, Nov. 2005
  • A Tale of Two Syllabi: Investing in Writing
    Greg Bevan
    28th Annual Conference of the Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT), Nov. 2002
■ Courses
  • English
    99 Apr. 2001
    Seinan Gakuin University
  • English
    99 Apr. 2001
    Fukuoka University
  • English
    20 Apr. 2007
    The University of Kitakyushu
  • English
    20 Apr. 2002
    Kyushu University
  • English
    20 Sep. 2000
    Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University Junior College
■ Affiliated academic society
  • Apr. 2022 - Present
    Editorial Board, The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan
  • Mar. 2015 - Present
    English and American Literature Association of Taiwan
  • Jan. 2014 - Present
    European Beat Studies Network
  • Jan. 2008 - Present
    Poe Society of Japan
  • Apr. 2007 - Present
    Fukuoka University American Literature Research Group
  • Mar. 2004 - Present
    English Literary Society of Japan
  • Sep. 2001 - Present
    American Literature Society of Japan
  • Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2015
    Editorial Board, The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan