Dr. Hisaaki Yamanouchi
Dr. Yamanouchi has been professor of English at Japan Women's University since his retirement from the University of Tokyo in 1995. In 1975 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge with a dissertation on "The Mind's Abyss: A Study of Melancholy and Associated States in Some Late-Eighteenth-Century Writers, and in Wordsworth and Coleridge". During the extended period of his stay in Cambridge he also taught Japanese as Lector in the Faculty of Oriental Studies and he gave a series of lectures on Japanese literature, which was published as A Search for Authenticity in Modern Japanese Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1978; later translated into Romanian). Having been made Honorary Professor at the Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies in the University of Warwick in 1995, he is trying to accommodate traditional English Studies to British Cultural Studies to meet the needs of the students at his home university.