Ghosts and Outsiders in Gothic Fiction

在2022年期间，我的研究活动大幅增加，回到了几乎大流行前的水平。我与泰国Chulalungkorn大学的Katarzyna Ancuta、日本奈良女子大学的Chiho Nakagawa和台湾国立政治大学的立新共同组织了两次会议，亚洲民俗、民间恐怖和哥特式(2022年9月)，以及与Katarzyna Ancuta(泰国朱拉隆功大学)、Chiho Nakagawa(日本奈良女子大学)和立新(台湾国立政治大学)的会议小组讨论(2023年3月)和一个会议小组(2022年7月国际哥特式协会会议)。我还在其中两个活动上做了与JSPS项目相关的会议演讲：亚洲民俗、民间恐怖和哥特式，以及国际哥特式协会会议。此外，我进行了图书馆和档案研究，并于2022年8月在佛蒙特州和宾夕法尼亚州斯沃斯莫尔完成了实地考察工作。为了进一步促进和改善与亚洲哥特学者的国际合作努力，我还在关西地区进行了关于日本鬼魂和黑暗旅游的田野调查。我发表了冈本木藤的短篇小说《海龟》的分析和翻译，并提交了一本关于雪莉·杰克逊和民俗的章节，这一章被接受出版。2022年，为了加强我与亚洲其他研究人员的关系，以便我们能够扩大我们的GAA网络，并保证在2022年大流行期间的研究成果，我在研究重点上增加了两个主题：欧美哥特小说对日本小说的影响，以及当代对日本闹鬼空间的看法及其在英语翻译中的接受。

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.