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Literary Geographies of Folklore

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K12954
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

THURGILL James  東京大学, 教養学部, 特任准教授 (20783210)

Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
KeywordsLiterary Geography / Human Geography / Folklore / Place / Narrative / Spatiality / Space / Identity / Cultural Geography / Space and Place / Folktales / Literature / Cultural Studies / Landscape
Outline of Research at the Start

This research examines how folklore literature, cultural narrative and belief inform our understanding of geography, and assesses the educational nature of folklore and its role in shaping past, present and future perceptions of geography through its traditions, customs and literary imaginings.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project produced multiple outputs. The successes of the project include: 1x co-authored book, 8x published articles in journals, 2x co-authored articles published, 6x book chapters have been published. I also have 1x encyclopaedia entry accepted and in press with Springer Press. Another 1x co-authored article has been written and is under review, 1x monograph has been commissioned with University of Wales Press due for submission autumn 2024. I edited a themed section of 'Literary Geographies' journal containing 10x contributions, and have launched a book series with University of Wales Press, co-edited with Sheila Hones.
I've given 12 presentations in total, including 7 invited lectures. I also organised 2x conference sessions organised and chaired at Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

The research conducted has been paramount to understanding more precisely the connections between people, folk narratives, and place. The project has produced valuable information about the way local, regional and national identities are created through literary-geographical processes.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (27 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020

All Journal Article (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 8 results,  Peer Reviewed: 7 results,  Open Access: 7 results) Presentation (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Invited: 9 results) Book (7 results)

  • [Journal Article] Revenant narratives/literary hauntings: on the spectral geography of the Japanese metropolis2024

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Journal Title

      Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural

      Volume: 11

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Spatial Hinge: An Introduction2023

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Journal Title

      Literary Geographies

      Volume: 9 Pages: 234-236

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Spatial Hinge: Reframed2023

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Journal Title

      Literary Geographies

      Volume: 9 Pages: 261-265

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] A Relational Literary Geography of George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman’2023

    • Author(s)
      Pazdziora, J.P. and Thurgill. J
    • Journal Title

      North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies

      Volume: 41 Pages: 21-42

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Spectral Geography: Ghostly narratives and the construction of place in a haunted Tokyo suburb2022

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Journal Title

      Lo Squaderno

      Volume: 63 Pages: 13-18

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report 2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Literary Geography and the Spatial Hinge2021

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Journal Title

      Literary Geographies

      Volume: 7(2) Pages: 152-156

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Extending Hot Authentication: Imagining Fantasy Space2021

    • Author(s)
      Jane Lovell and James Thurgill
    • Journal Title

      Annals of Tourism Research

      Volume: 87 Pages: 103-138

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.annals.2020.103138

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] In Spite of Cosmic Loneliness: Exploring literary geographies of folklore from lockdown2020

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Journal Title

      Literary Geographies

      Volume: 6 Pages: 284-289

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Literary Geography of Folklore: Place, Narrative, (Inter)Spatiality2024

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      Faculty Research Forum, Center for Global Education, The University of Tokyo
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Literary Geographies of Folklore2023

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      Association for Cultural Studies Virtual Lecture Series
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Strange Constellations: On the interspatiality of folklore2023

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      3S Research Group, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia,
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Folklore as Common Space2022

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      History and Theory of Common Spaces: The Second Symposium of the Room and Space Research Group, UTokyo
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Veganism, Politics, Place2022

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      Guest lecture in Environmental Politics, Rikkyo University,
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Spatiality and the Urban Experience: Revisiting Jinnai Hidenobu’s Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology2022

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      Room and Space” Research Group, East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, The University of Tokyo
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Beyond Text and Space: The Fantastic Geography of Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      Fantastiche Geographien, 13th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Legends of Tono: Literary Geography, Folklore, Interspatiality2022

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      RGS-IBG Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2022
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Absence and the Spatial Experience (Keynote)2022

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      East Asian Academy of New Liberal Arts "Room and Space" Public Review
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Numinous Borders of Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan, or A Literary Geography of Folklore2021

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Watkinsian Geography: Memory, mapping and place in the work of Alfred Watkins2021

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      Invited Lecture, Malvern Dowsers Online Monthly Lecture Series (Online, UK)
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Constraint, Curiosity, and Chronotopes: Encountering literary geographies of folklore in a pandemic2021

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Organizer
      University of Glasgow Human Geography Research Group, (Online, UK)
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] New Directions in the Ghost Story, Vol. 1 (chapter contribution)2024

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Total Pages
      19
    • Publisher
      Palgrave
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Encyclopedia of Human Geography2024

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Publisher
      Springer
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] History and Theory of Common Spaces (chapter contribution)2024

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Total Pages
      21
    • Publisher
      East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts/ The University of Tokyo
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (chapter contribution)2023

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Total Pages
      11
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9781032042831
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] サーギル博士と巡る 東大哲学散歩: 場の地理学的解釈に向けて2021

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill and Mon Madomitsu
    • Total Pages
      208
    • Publisher
      Seeds Planning
    • ISBN
      9784434299254
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Literary Journeys (Edited by John Sutherland)2021

    • Author(s)
      Various
    • Publisher
      Modern Books
    • ISBN
      9781912827213
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Place, Space, Art (Book Chapter)2020

    • Author(s)
      James Thurgill
    • Total Pages
      14
    • Publisher
      China Academy of Art Press
    • ISBN
      9787550318212
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report

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Published: 2020-04-28   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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