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ひびきのキャンパス

Roger J.A. PRIOR

Roger J.A. PRIOR

Title Associate Professor
Degree M.A.
Department Centre for Fundamental Education (Hibikino)
E-mail r-prior[ at ]kitakyu-u.ac.jp
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Education 1997 B.A. Hons (First Class) in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield
2005 M.A. in Modern Japanese Literature, Seijo University
Employment History 2005-2009 Hosei University (part-time)
2006-2009 Tokyo Institute of Technology (part-time)
2006-2009 Seisen Women's University (part-time)
Teaching Activities TOEIC, English language, English presentation; debate
Research Interest

Translation and translation theory

Comparative Literature
Early Detective Fiction in Britain, Japan, and the USA

Publications

Essays
Hara Houitsuan's "Shiizaa Zansatsu Jiken" and the Translation of Humour: the Interpretation and Rendering of Literary Allusions, Bulletin of Seisen Unversity Research Institute for Cultural Science (Vol. XXVIII) (2007)

Empirical Approaches to Text Translation - Resurrecting the "Dead" Author, Bulletin of the Center for Fundamental Education (Vol. 8), The University of Kitakyushu (Nov. 2010)

The Translation of Puns and the Voice of the Translator: Japanese Translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Bulletin of the Center for Fundamental Education Vol 12,

【平成24年度(2012)】

Translations
Masaru's Song (Ori no Uta) (A play). Included in a collection of plays by Aramaki Mizue entitled Hoshiai (Kadensha, October 2002).
Agasa Kurisuti Daijiten (The Complete Christie - An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia) by Matthew Bunson (English to Japanese). Translated with Hiroko Sasada. (Shufusha, November 2010)

The Oral Chronicle of the Boorana in Southern Ethiopia: Modes of Construction and Preservation of History among People without Writing (joint translation with James Watt) (Lit Verlag GmbH & Co., 2016). 原作は、大場千景著『無文字社会における歴史の生成と記憶の技法』(清水弘文堂書房、2014年)

Politics of Human Network in African Conflicts: Kamajor/The CDF in Sierra Leone" (joint translation with James Watt) (Langaa Rpcig, 2019) 原作は 岡野英之著の『アフリカの内戦と武装勢力ーーシエラレオネにおける人脈ネットワークの生成と変容』(昭和堂、2015年)

by Okano Hideyuki,

The Three Kingdoms Volume 1: The Peach Garden Oath. A bilingual edition of selected sections of Yokoyama Mitsuteru's manga 『三国志』(Ushio Shuppansha, 2019)

The Three Kingdoms Volume 2: What Makes a Hero?. A bilingual edition of selected sections of Yokoyama Mitsuteru's manga 『三国志』(Ushio Shuppansha, 2019)

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