Professor Kei'ichi Yamanaka

Professor Yamanaka received his B.A. from the Tokyo Institute of Foreign Studies in 1963, and his M.A. from the University of Tokyo in 1965, specializing in English Philology. His first appointment was to Tokai University, where he remained until 1979; he then became an associate professor at the University of Tokyo, with promotion to professor in 1989. From 1993 until last year, he was a professor in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Sciences; following his retirement last March he took up a position as professor at Toyo University. He has also been a lecturer at many other universities, most recently at Seisen University.

His M.A. thesis was on "Properties of Poetic Language", and since then he has published many works on linguistic themes, such as "Roman Jakobson's Science of Language: Part I, Language and Poetry, Part II, Meaning and Form" (Tokyo, Keiso Shobo, 1989, 1995).

Lectures available: 2002-02