European Languages and Cultures

Education and Research Fields and Faculty

KURODA Kiyoshi, Professor

I am engaged in research on mechanisms that allow the meanings of complex verbs and especially separable and inseparable verbs to be formed.

Keywords: complex verbs, separable verbs, inseparable verbs

ABE Yoshinori, Associate Professor

Historical study of German, espesially syntactic change in the period of Early New High German (Fruehneuhochdeutsch) and history of German orthography (Rechtschreibung).

Keywords: word order (Wortstellung), frame construction (Rahmenkonstruktion), orthography (Rechtschreibung)

NAKAJIMA Toshie, Professor

French poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I am especially interested in the influence of Charles Baudelaire on Lafcadio Hearn and on Renée Vivien.

Keywords: French modern poetry, 19th century, Baudelaire, Hearn, Vivien

UMEZAWA Aya, Ph.D., Associate Professor

French literature of the nineteenth century. Representation of marginal people (criminal, poor, "degenerate"…)

Keywords: French literature, Criminology, Psychiatry

TAKEDA Akifumi, Professor

I am studying Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the perspective of the development of cultural traditional consciousness that appeared in poetry and novels.

Keywords: Russia, Modern Russian literature