Research Interests

Linguistics

The classification of the Tsimshianic languages

The fortificaiton of the Japanese-Korean language hypothesis

Han character etymology

The origins of human language

Body as language

Hegel's divine abandonment

Psychoanalysis as philosophy

The biography of Woolf and the Bloomsbury group

Formalist studies of Woolf

The life and work of Mishima Yukio

Contemporary Norwegian literature

French and English Canadian modernist literature

20th c. aesthetic exchange between Japanese and English literature