Hearing Lives: Women Writers, Music, and Modernist Autobiografiction

• Project/Area Number: 25K03945
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: Tsai Tsung・Han 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 助教 (30991012)
• Project Period (FY): 2025-04-01 – 2028-03-31
• Project Status: Granted (Fiscal Year 2025)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000); Fiscal Year 2027: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2026: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
• Keywords: autobiografiction / women's writing / modernism / music / form

Outline of Research at the Start

This project examines how women writers in the early twentieth century used music as a means of creating various autobiografictions. Combining life-writing and musical-literary studies, it explores the relationship between fiction, auto/biography, music, gender, subjectivity, and representation.