Representations of "Goddess Worship" by contemporary American Minority Women Authors.

首席研究员（杉山）完成了少数民族女性文学、女神崇拜、宗教和性别方面的参考文献。她根据这些资料收集资料，并在访问美国后，与一些美国学者，如印第安纳大学的Susan Gubar讨论了这些想法和手稿，完成了一篇论文，并将其作为论文提交给印第安纳大学，并成功被录取。本论文所探讨和分析的部分思想和主题，在国内外学术场合发展为口头报告。他们是；2003年参加美国研究协会年会、日本妇女研究协会年会、企业家研究论坛；美国新英美文学研究会、美国亚裔文学协会、立命馆美国研究会。这里提到的最后两个是国际会议。在这些口头报告的基础上，杉山共同发表了4篇论文（详见下文第11条）。2005年还计划出版另一本合著的书和一篇学术期刊文章。在《美国的制度：家庭、教会、学校、社区和组织》（Minerva）一书中，杉山将介绍“权威的母亲与和平的父亲：家庭、权力、技术”一章。在《语言与文化》杂志上，她将发表《这只是肤浅的》——托妮·莫里森的过往故事。她现在正在完成一本书，《母性的叙述，母性的力量：当代美国文学中的女神》这本书将在2005年以日语和英语两种形式出版。

The head investigator (Sugiyama) completed bibliographies on minority women's literature, goddess worship, religion and gender. She collected material according to them and, after visiting the US and discussing the ideas and manuscripts with some US scholars such as Susan Gubar at Indiana University, completed a thesis, which she submitted to Indiana University as a dissertation and was successfully accepted. Part of the ideas and themes that this thesis explores and analyzes developed into the oral presentations at both domestic and international scholarly occasions. They are ; annual meetings of American Studies Association, Japan Women's Studies Association, Forum for Entrepreneur Studies in 2003 ; and, MESA, New English and American Literature Studies Association, Asian American Literary Association, and Ritsumeikan American Seminar. The last two mentioned here are international conferences. Based on these oral presentations, Sugiyama developed 4 co-authored publications (see #11 below for publication details). Also scheduled in 2005 are publications of another co-authored book and a scholarly journal article. In Institutions in America : Family, Church, School, Community, and Organizations (Minerva), Sugiyama will present a chapter "Authoritative Mother and Peaceful Father : Family, Power, Technology." In Language and Culture, she will publish "It's Only Skin Deep'-Toni Morrison's Passing stories." She is now also completing a book, Maternal Narraitve, Maternal Power : Goddesses in Contemporary American Literature which will be in a publishable form both in Japanese and in English, within the year of 2005.