Mitsunori Sagae

European Language Literature

Russian literature, comparative literature (Russian and Japanese literature, Russian and American literature), comparative analysis of British and Russian literature with a focus on the works of Vladimir Nabokov

Basic seminar, Russian literature, human education theory, introduction to literary research methods, expression culture theory, etc.

Literary theory (Focusing on Bakhtin, Russian Formalism, and cultural semiotics)
Research into intermedia (expressive culture) through the application of literary theory and semiotics (literature, film, music, painting, and other representational arts)

Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture
Graduated Department of Law Soka Faculty of Law
Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Letters, Department of Slavic Language and Literature
Completed doctoral studies in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo, majoring in Western Cultural Studies and Slavic Language and Literature
After working at Tokyo University of Science (part-time) and Soka University (part-time), he is currently in his current position.

The Japanese Society of Russian Literature, The Nabokov Society of Japan, The Tolstoy Society of Japan, The Japanese Society of Slavic Studies, The Poe Society of Japan, The Japanese Society of Ethology, The Entomological Society of Japan

"The Pleasure Called Literature", Shunpusha (sole author), 2018.
"Introduction to Expression Cultural Theory: An Invitation to Intermediality", Daisanbunmeisha (co-editor/author), 2021.
Reading Balmont's "Rain" from the Perspective of "The Principles of Composition" (Poe), 2005 (Japan Russian Literature Society, sole author), The Motif of Rotation and Movement in V. Shilin's Poems: The Problem of Two Types of Visual Memory, 2010 (Japan Nabokov Society, sole author), "The History of Russia in World Textbooks" 2011 (Akashi Shoten, co-translator), "The Ark of Russian Culture: Twenty Years after the Destruction of the Soviet Union" (Toyo Shoten, co-author), "Towards the Restoration of the Humanities: An Invitation to Anthropology" (co-author), Keiso Shobo, 2018.

Don't try too hard!

Hobbies: Observing ornamental plants and insects, listening to music (creating playlists on iTunes, self-proclaimed researcher of Southern All Stars and Keisuke Kuwata)