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TAKEI Akiko
School of Global Studies
Professor
Last Updated :2025/05/31

Researcher Profile and Settings

Profile and Settings

Name

  • Name

    TAKEI Akiko

Profile & Settings

Affiliations

Affiliation (Master)

  • School of Global Studies, Professor
  • Department of , Professor
  • Institute of Culture, Researcher
  • Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor

Education, Etc.

Education

  • May 2004, University of Aberdeen

Degree

  • British literature, May 2004, University of Aberdeen
  • British literature, Mar. 1995, Tokyo Woman's Christian University
  • British literature, Mar. 1987, Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Research Activities

Research Areas, Etc.

Research Areas

  • British novels, history, culture

Research Interests

  • The Industrial Revolution, class, work, gender

Book, papers, etc

Published Papers

  • The Decline of Inherited Property and Rise of Working Gentlemen in Bleak House
    Akiko TAKEI
    The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2024 Official Conference Proceedings, 505, 513, 2024, refereed, Single Work
  • From Visual Tools to Body Parts: Functions of Eyeglasses in The Pickwick Papers
    Akiko TAKEI
    The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2023: Official Conference Proceedings, 371, 378, 2023, refereed, Single Work
  • What Draws Young Men Overseas? Identifying the Impact of Overseas Business Experiences on Young Men in Dickens's Life and Novels
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 13th Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities Official Conference Proceedings, 89, 99, 2022, refereed, Single Work
  • Disease Selects Its Victims: Inequality in Falling Ill to Infectious Disease in Bleak House
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 9th European Conference on Arts and Humanities Official Conference Proceedings, 145, 153, 2021, refereed, Single Work
  • Analyzing the Source of Wealth of Mr. Suckling and Mrs. Elton in Jane Austen's Emma
    Akiko TAKEI
    The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2020 Official Conference Proceedings, 153, 161, 2021, refereed, Single Work
  • Who is Oliver? Unexecuted Wills and Threatened Legal Rights in Oliver Twist
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 8th European Conference on Arts and Humanities Conference Proceedings, 185, 192, 2020, refereed, Single Work
  • Sanditon and the Uncertain Prospects of a Resort Business
    Akiko TAKEI
    Persuasions On-Line, 38, 2, n/a, n/a, 2018, refereed, Single Work
  • Beatrix Potter's Room of Her Own: From Restriction in London to Independence at Hill Top Farm
    Akiko TAKEI
    Proceedings of the 2016 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 517, 532, 2017, refereed, Single Work
  • Difficulty in Teaching Nineteenth-Century British Literature to Japanese Undergraduate Students
    Akiko TAKEI
    Proceedings of the 13th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, 1885, 1890, 2015, refereed, Single Work
  • "Mr. Cole is Very Bilious": The Art of Lay Medicine in Jane Austen's Characters
    Akiko TAKEI
    Persuasions On-Line, 30, 1, n/a, n/a, 2009, refereed, Single Work
  • General Tilney and Bath Water
    Akiko TAKEI
    Persuasions, 28, 264, 269, 2006, refereed, Single Work
  • Jane Austen and "A Society of Sickness"
    Akiko TAKEI
    Persuasions, 27, 142, 151, 2005, refereed, Single Work
  • Benevolence or Manipulation? The Treatment of Mr Dick
    Akiko TAKEI
    Dickensian, 101, 2, 116, 131, 2005, refereed, Single Work
  • "Your Complexion Is So Improved!": A Diagnosis of Fanny Price's "Dis-ease"
    Akiko TAKEI
    Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 17, 683, 700, 2005, refereed, Single Work

Books etc

  • Dickens in Japan: Bicentenary Essays
    HARA, Eiichi, et al
    Ch7, Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 2013

Conference Activities & Talks

  • Agnes Wickfield's Temporary Entrepreneurship and the Boom of Home Schools in the Mid-Victorian Period
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 29th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Single Work
  • The Decline of Inherited Property and Rise of Working Gentlemen in Bleak House
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 15th Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, Single Work
  • Akiko TAKEI
    The 28th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Single Work
  • From Visual Tools to Body Parts: Functions of Eyeglasses in The Pickwick Papers
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 14th Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities, Single Work
  • Why is the 1971 Version Still the Best? The History of A Christmas Carol in Animation Films
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 27th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Single Work
  • What Draws Young Men Overseas? Identifying the Impact of Overseas Business Experiences on Young Men in Dickens's Life and Novels
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 13th Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, Single Work
  • Disease Selects Its Victims: Inequality in Falling Ill to Infectious Disease in Bleak House
    Akiko TAKEI
    The European Conference on Arts & Humanities, Single Work, refereed
  • Analyzing the Source of Mr Suckling's Wealth in Jane Austen's Emma
    Akiko TAKEI
    The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media, and Culture, Single Work
  • Who is Oliver? Unexecuted Wills and Threatened Legal Rights in Oliver Twist
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 8th European Conference on Arts and Humanities, Single Work
  • Why did He/She Choose Her/Him? International Marriage, Race, and Gender in Sherlock Holmes
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 18th Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Single Work
  • Why New Names? Nicknaming and Renaming of Dickens's Characters
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Single Work
  • Dangerous Men and Attractive Women: USA and Americans in Sherlock Holmes
    Akiko TAKEI
    Mapping Victorian Empire, Cultures, Identities, Single Work
  • Facts and Falsehoods in the Narratives in Hard Times
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 23rd Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Single Work
  • Success or Failure? Evaluating Dickens's Management of Urania Cottage
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 22nd Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Single Work
  • Every Body Must Now Move in a Circle: Obsession with Health and Amusement in Sanditon
    Akiko TAKEI
    Sanditon: 200 Years, Single Work
  • Nicholas, David, and Pip Go to Japan: Soseki Natsume's Adaptations of Dickens
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 21st Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Single Work
  • Beatrix Potter's Room of Her Own: From Restriction in London to Independence at Hill Top Farm
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 14th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Single Work
  • Comedy and Tragedy in Drinking and Drinkers in Dickens's Novels
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 20th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Single Work
  • Difficulty in Teaching Nineteenth-Century British Literature to Japanese Underground Students
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 13th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, Single Work
  • The Symbolical Landscapes of Prisons in Little Dorrit
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 19th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Single Work
  • Complexity of Domestic Violence in Dickens's Novels
    Akiko TAKEI
    Charles Dickens: Births, Marriages, Deaths, Single Work
  • Alcott's Rewriting of Dickens in Little Women
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 17th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Single Work
  • The Art of Lying and Fiction-Making in Northanger Abbey
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 32th Annual General Meeting of Jane Austen Society of North America, Single Work
  • The Art of Lay Medicine of Jane Austen's Characters
    Akiko TAKEI
    New Directions in Austen's Studies, Single Work
  • Jane Austen and "A Society of Sickness"
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 27th Annual General Meeting of Jane Austen Society of North America, Single Work
  • "Your Complexion Is So Improved!": A Diagnosis of Fanny Price's "Dis-ease"
    Akiko TAKEI
    The 4th International Conference of Institute for Feminist Theory and Research, Single Work

Other Research Activities

Awards & Honors

  • Akiko TAKEI, The Fukuhara Memorial Fund for the Studies of English and American Literature, The 14th Fukuhara Award for the Rising Scholar of English

Research Grants & Projects

  • JSPS
    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
    Working Environment in Dickens's Novels: Class and Gender in Victorian Britain, 2024
  • JSPS
    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
    The Industrial Revolution and Victorian Literature, 2013
  • JSPS
    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
    Historical and Cultural Context in British Novels from the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century to the Early Nineteenth Century, Focusing on Jane Austen, 2010
  • JSPS
    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
    Medical Context and Gender Issues in Eighteenth-Century British Novels, Focusing Jane Austen, 2007
  • The Fukuhara Memorial Fund for the Studies of English and American Literature
    The 14th Fukuhara Award for the Rising Scholar of English
    Jane Austen and Medicine, 2005

内外研究・留学実績

内外研究・留学実績

Social Contribution

  • 201509, 201609, UK, University of Manchester
  • 200010, 200405, UK, University of Aberdeen

Educational Activities

Educational Activities

Teaching Experience

  • Seminar for freshers, Seminar for juniors, Media literacy, Senior thesis


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