Graduation theses, 1989 to the present
Here's a list of the graduation theses I've supervised -- and
those I am supervising now.
What it means
You can see the graduate or student's name, the subject (or
title) of the thesis, and very roughly where the graduate is
now.
Name
This is the name the student was using at the time. Of
course some people may have got married
since. . . .
Subject (or title)
For most of these theses, I've given the subject rather
than the title. (I've identified films by their directors. Yes, I
realize that this is simplistic at best.) Thesis subjects may change,
of course, and the subjects specified now (January '01) by people
intending to hand in theses a year from now are only provisional.
Place
The locations are very vague. For example, you should
take "Tokyo" to mean "within commuting distance of
Tokyo".
[Note]
Sorry, I don't have records for people who graduated before 1989
-- can you jog my memory? And I'd be very grateful for any addition
or correction.
-- Peter Evans
| 1988-89 |
| Hashimoto Naoko |
Japanese loanwords in English |
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| Moriya Takayuki |
Call-and-response in black music |
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| Sasaki Naoko |
English education for black children in US ghetto schools |
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| Shaku Yuki |
Metaphors in the 1988 American presidential election |
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| Sugawa Akiko |
Vladimir Nabokov's novel The Gift |
Tokyo |
| Tsuboi Sachiko |
Monty Python |
|
| Tsukiyama Yoshiko |
Tay Garnett's film The Postman Always Rings
Twice |
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| 1989-90 |
| Asano Michiko |
James Joyce's story "The Dead" |
Tokyo |
| Chiba Yukiko |
William Blake's poem "The Sick Rose" |
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| Ikeda Kazuomi |
English education in Japan |
|
| Jouke Sachiko |
Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the
D'Urbervilles |
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| Ookura Kazuhiro |
"H. P. Lovecraft's fish-motif" |
|
| Suzuki Youko |
Philip Kaufman's film The Unbearable Lightness of
Being |
Tokyo |
| Takushima Sakae |
"Silence as message" |
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| Watanabe Shinji |
"James Thurber and the short story" |
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| 1990-91 |
| Fujimura Kanae |
David O. Selznick's film A Farewell to
Arms |
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| Kataniwa Yuki |
Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing |
Tokyo |
| Kidooka Hiroko |
Reading in children's English-language acquisition |
|
| Kuraoka Toshiaki |
Peter Weir's film Dead Poets Society |
|
| Morita Tetsu |
J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye and
Dazai Osamu's novel No Longer Human |
|
| Nakamura Yasuko |
Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey into
Night |
|
| Ra Reiko |
Malamud's novel The Assistant |
|
| Satou Eriko |
Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice |
Tokyo |
| Shibaguchi Sachiko |
Barry Levinson's film Rain Man |
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| 1991-92 |
| Fujisawa Hideko |
Vladimir Nabokov's novel Invitation to a
Beheading |
Singapore |
| Kondou Masaru |
"The life and poetry of Jim Morrison" |
|
| Kuroda Ichirou |
Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland |
|
| Mizuno Takeya |
"American news media and the Gulf War" |
Missouri |
| Mutou Kumiko |
Jay McInerney's novel Bright Lights, Big City |
|
| Oka Ami |
Daniel Keyes' novel Flowers for Algernon |
|
| Saitou Madoka |
Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day |
|
| Sugahara Tomomi |
George Seaton's film Miracle on 34th Street |
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| Takahashi Ken |
Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing |
|
| Takano Yumi |
Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary |
|
| Tsuda Keijiro |
Nicholson Baker's novel The Mezzanine |
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| Yamaguchi Tatsuyuki |
The Japanese-American relationship |
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| Yamano Tomoko |
H. P. Lovecraft's story The Dream-Quest of Unknown
Kadath |
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| 1992-93 |
| Higashi Youko |
John Barth's novels The Floating Opera
and The End of the Road |
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| Kawai Shin'ichi |
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess' novel and Kubrick's
film) |
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| Kobiyama Shigeo |
Jim Jarmusch's film Stranger than Paradise |
|
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Tachibana Takeshi |
Lawrence Durrell's novel The Black Book |
Tokyo |
| Takahashi Seiichirou |
Karen Karbo's novel Trespassers Welcome Here |
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| Takayanagi Satoru |
Wim Wenders's film Paris, Texas |
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| Takeda Sachiko |
"Linguistic differences according to sex" |
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| 1993-94 |
| Araki Emi |
Alan Sillitoe's novel Saturday Night and
Sunday Morning |
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| Gu Qianhong |
Ada Leverson's novel Love's Shadow |
|
| Hattori Akiko |
James Joyce's Dubliners |
Melbourne |
| Katou Ai |
Raymond Carver's poetry |
|
| Kuroiwa Satoshi |
Woody Allen's film Hannah and Her Sisters |
Nagano |
| Masuzawa Keisuke |
Jacques Tourneur's film The Body Snatcher |
Los Angeles |
| Naitou Masako |
Vladimir Nabokov's novel The Real Life of Sebastian
Knight |
|
| Okuno Kouichi |
Dashiell Hammett's characters the Continental Op and Sam
Spade |
Tokyo |
| Yamashita Yuki |
E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India |
New York |
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| 1994-95 |
| Higa Miyuki |
Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane |
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| Kiyokawa Houmi |
Kate Chopin's The Awakening |
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| Kojima Mariko |
Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot |
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| Kondou Junko |
Subtitles in movies |
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| Miura Mihoko |
Bernard Malamud's story "The First Seven Years" |
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| Miyaji Ryuuji |
Julian Barnes' novel Staring at the Sun |
|
| Ogawa Ayumi |
Robertson Davies' novel What's Bred in the
Bone |
Tokyo |
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| 1995-96 |
| Hamatsuki Risa |
"The automobile and American roadside
architecture" |
Tokyo |
| Hatta Hiroyuki |
Billy Wilder's film The Apartment |
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| Hisajima Mayumi |
James Michener's novel Sayonara |
Hong Kong |
| Mori Takashi |
Gore Vidal's novel The City and the Pillar |
Tokyo |
| Noma Kikuko |
William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the
Shrew |
Tokyo |
| Onuma Nobue |
Estuary English |
Tokyo |
| Shigaki Yoshio |
Robert Zemeckis' film Forrest Gump |
|
| Tsukada Marico |
"The 'Generation X' stereotype" |
Tokyo |
Top
| 1996-97 |
| Endou Kaori |
Penny Marshall's film Awakenings |
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| Kawada Hiromi |
Ed Wood's film Glen or Glenda |
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| Kojima Yukiko |
Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club |
Tokyo |
| Morizumi Takako |
Monty Python's Flying Circus |
|
| Nakayama Ryuuji |
Machine translation |
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| Naoki Fusako |
Felipe Alfau's novel Locos |
Tokyo |
| Sakamoto Kaoru |
Ernst Lubitsch's film Heaven Can Wait |
Tokyo |
| Tsuji Akio |
Tom Stoppard's radio plays If You're Glad I'll Be
Frank and Albert's Bridge |
Tokyo |
| Tsuruoka Yumiko |
"Writing style in The New York Times" |
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| Wakao Yasko |
"The evil of Dorian Gray and Edward Hyde" |
Tokyo |
| Yamaguchi Michiko |
Gregory Nava's film El Norte |
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| 1997-98 |
| Iwai Masami |
Personal space and body contact |
|
| Okano Noriko |
"India's need for English" |
San Diego |
| Satou Youko |
The formal garden at Cliveden |
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| Shibahara Chizuyo |
Dissent in the US before and after the Vietnam War |
Tokyo |
| Uchida Yuki |
Interlanguage |
Tokyo |
| Watanabe Megumi |
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton |
|
| Yamaya Yukiko |
"St Ives in Mother Goose" |
Tokyo |
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| 1998-99 |
| Hanazato Jun'ichi |
Helen Mears' book Mirror for Americans:
Japan |
Tokyo |
| Kanasaki Yumiko |
Japanese adaptation of English words |
|
| Kaneko Chinatsu |
The relationship between English/American novels and film |
Tokyo |
| Minekawa Kanako |
Acculturation in second-language learning |
Tokyo |
| Sakaue Azumi |
The films Stand by Me and The Shawshank
Redemption |
|
| Satou Misato |
Billy Wilder's film Sunset Boulevard |
Tokyo |
|
Shitaya Junko |
Dawn Powell's novel Dance Night |
Tokyo |
| Takahashi Ken'ichi |
English as an international language |
|
| Yamauchi Amane |
C. S. Lewis' novel series "Chronicles of Narnia" |
Tokyo |
| Yasumura Miharu |
David Lynch's film Lost Highway |
Tokyo |
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| 1999-2000 |
| Hayasaka Risa |
Paul Bowles and Morocco |
Tokyo |
| Horigome
Kosuke |
Origin of the National Trust (of England &
Wales) |
Tokyo |
| Iwama Hiroshi |
Hollywood images of the Japanese |
Tokyo |
| Kubota Kazumasa |
US/Japanese automobile advertising |
Tokyo |
| Ooya Chie |
Homeschooling and public schools in the US |
Tokyo |
| Shibata Rika |
George Martin and the Beatles |
Tokyo |
| Shibayama Chiaki |
Esperanto, Volapük and Ido |
Tokyo |
| Sonoyama Ai |
Tobacco advertising in the US |
Tokyo |
| Suzuki Tomohiro |
"Old-world" and "new-world" wine |
Tokyo |
| Yoshioka Takashi |
Jackie Robinson |
Tokyo |
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| 2000-2001 |
| Kamochi Tomoyuki |
Japanese video games in the US |
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| Kunii Hirono |
divorce rates in Australia and Japan |
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| Nomoto Masato |
English education in Japan |
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| Okada Akiko |
Uniqlo and GAP advertising |
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| Ootomo Kazutaka |
Vietnam war movies and American society |
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| Takashima Misako |
the paintings of Thomas Cole |
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| Yagisawa Nakako |
Volkswagen ads of the 1960s |
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| 2001-2002 |
| Arai Chiaki |
American culture |
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| Kaneko Teppei |
American society and culture |
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| Kawabata Koutarou |
Comedy and nonverbal communication |
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| Kutsuwada Sae |
Gays and lesbians in literature |
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| Motoki Takumi |
English pronunciation for Japanese people |
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| Murase Yuuko |
Movies based on violent crimes |
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| Nakamura Keiko |
American culture |
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| Narita Tomonari |
American society |
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| Ochiai Tetsuya |
Orwell's 1984 or Wilde's The Picture
of Dorian Gray |
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| Takekawa Yousuke |
Monty Python's Flying Circus and
antiauthoritarian comedy |
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| Usumura Yuuichi |
American culture |
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Created: 28 June 1998. Last fiddled with: 4 February 2001.
