■Faculty | Faculty Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Group of Language and Culture | |||
■Position | Lecturer |
I am interested in how non-native French readers can recognize rhythmic elements in written French (e.g., continuous accent, intonation, and foot-rhyme) and how these elements can be conveyed through translation. In my doctoral dissertation, I studied rhythm (rythme) and orality (oralité) in modern and contemporary French poetry, focusing mainly on the 20th century poet, translator, and linguist Henri Meschonnic.
Currently, I am conducting research on the paradigm shift in contemporary poetry from "poetry and music" to "poetry and the spoken word" (parole) by comparing poetry and poetic theory in the Anglo-American world (W. Whitman, G.M. Hopkins, T.S. Eliot), focusing on French poetry from around 1940.
Since 2013, we have been running the "Society for the Study of Contemporary French Poetry". In addition to research presentations, the study group holds reading sessions (where all participants taste two or three poems together). We hope to create a place where as many people as possible can experience French poetry, regardless of whether they are specialists or non-specialists.
If you are interested, please see the following link
https://poetique.github.io
We have an online Meschonnic study group every Monday at 17:00. Please feel free to contact us if you are interested.