Ghosts and Outsiders in Gothic Fiction

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During 2022, my research activities increased significantly, back to nearly pre-pandemic levels. I co-organized two conferences, Asian Folklore, Folk Horror, and the Gothic (September 2022), and Captivating Criminality 9 (March 2023) and one conference panel (at the International Gothic Association Conference, July 2022) with Katarzyna Ancuta (Chulalungkorn University, Thailand), Chiho Nakagawa (Nara Women's University, Japan), and Li-Hsin Hsu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan). I also gave conference lectures related to this JSPS project at two of the events: at Asian Folklore, Folk Horror, and the Gothic, and at the International Gothic Association conference.In addition, I conducted library and archival research, and completed fieldwork during August 2022 in Vermont and in Swarthmore, PA during March 2023. To further contribute to and improve international cooperative efforts with Gothic scholars in Asia, I also conducted fieldwork in Kansai region on Japanese ghosts and dark tourism. I published an analysis and translation of Okamoto Kido’s short story “Sea Turtles,” and submitted a book chapter on Shirley Jackson and folklore, which was accepted for publication.In 2022, in order to improve ties between myself and other researchers in Asia so that we can grow our GAA network and to guarantee research output during the pandemic, in 2022, I added to my research focus with two topics: the influence of European and American Gothic fiction on Japanese fiction, and contemporary perspectives on haunted spaces in Japan and their reception in English translation.