Updated on 2026/06/12

Information

 

写真a

 
NISHI AYUMI
 
Organization
Faculty of Languages and Cultures Department of Multicultural Society Assistant Professor
Title
Assistant Professor
Contact information
メールアドレス
External link

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / English literature and literature in the English language

Degree

  • MA in English (University of Warwick)

  • MA (Hitotsubashi University)

  • Ph.D (Hitotsubashi University)

Research History

  •  Faculty of Languages and Cultures Department of Multicultural Society  Assistant Professor 

    2023.4 - Present

Education

  • Hitotsubashi University    

    2016.4 - 2022.7

Research Interests・Research Keywords

  • Research theme: My research focuses on Anglophone postcolonial literature, with emphasis on the works of J.M. Coetzee, South African writers, and the African diaspora. I am particularly interested in exploring the connections between narrative form and political vision in novels.

    Keyword: Global Anglophone Literature

    Research period: 2024.4

Papers

  • A Hope for Feminist Friendship across the Colour Bar?: The Question of Alterity and Realist Form in Nadine Gordimer's July's People. Reviewed

    Nishi, Ayumi

    黒人研究   ( 91 )   96 - 109   2022.3

     More details

    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)  

    A Hope for Feminist Friendship across the Colour Bar?: The Question of Alterity and Realist Form in Nadine Gordimer's July's People.

  • Complexity of Silence: Disability and Narrative Strategy in J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K Reviewed

    Nishi, Ayumi

    Correspondence: Hitotsubashi Journal of Arts and Literature   ( 7 )   59 - 78   2022.3

     More details

    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)  

    Complexity of Silence: Disability and Narrative Strategy in J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K

  • Between Alterity and Solidarity: Feminist Ideas in Contemporary South African Novels in English Reviewed

    Nishi Ayumi

    PhD Thesis   2022

     More details

    Authorship:Lead author   Language:English   Publishing type:Doctoral thesis  

    researchmap

  • Body, Race, and Place in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light. Reviewed

    Nishi, Ayumi

    言語社会   ( 13 )   340 - 354   2019.3

     More details

    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)  

    Body, Race and Place in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light.

  • Rewriting Women's History: Zoë Wicomb's David's Story. Reviewed

    Nishi, Ayumi

    Correspondence: Hitotsubashi Journal of Arts and Literature   ( 2 )   83 - 104   2017.3

     More details

    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)  

    Rewriting Women's History: Zoë Wicomb's David's Story.

Books

  • Reading Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Beyond Feminist Dystopia

    Ayumi NISHI(Role:Sole translator ,  Original_author:Margaret Atwood ,  "The Handmaid’s Tale: A Feminist Dystopia ?")

    Suiseisha  2023.12 

     More details

  • 『ジョージ・オーウェル『一九八四年』を読む』

    西あゆみ(Role:Sole translator ,  Original_author:マーガレット・アトウッド ,  「ジョージ・オーウェル──いくつかの個人的なつながり」)

    水声社  2021.5 

     More details

    Language:Japanese   Book type:Scholarly book

Presentations

  • Masculinity and Nationhood in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

    Nishi, Ayumi

    Tenth Annual Postgraduate Symposium,Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick  2014.5 

     More details

    Language:English  

    Country:Other  

    Masculinity and Nationhood in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

  • 「現代南アフリカ文学における土地表象とその問題:J.M.クッツェー『恥辱』とゼイクス・ムダ『赤の奥』の比較から」

    西あゆみ

    世界文学・語圏横断ネットワーク、東京外国語大学  2015.3 

     More details

    Language:Japanese  

    Country:Other  

  • Rewriting Women's History: The Treatment of Truth in Zoe Wicomb's David's Story.

    Nishi, Ayumi

    Correspondence One-Day Forum: Feminist Narratives and Liberation, Hitotsubashi university  2016.9 

     More details

    Language:English  

    Country:Other  

    Rewriting Women's History: The Treatment of Truth in Zoe Wicomb's David's Story.

  • 「『マイケル・K』における身体と語りの構造」

    西あゆみ

    日本英文学会関東支部夏季大会、東洋大学  2019.6 

     More details

    Language:Japanese  

    Country:Other  

    The Body and Narrative Structure in Life & Times of Michael K

  • “Sex in the Grey Area in J. M. Coetzee’s Works”

    Ayumi Nishi

    Work-in-progress Sessions, University of York, UK  2019.12 

     More details

    Language:English  

    Country:Other  

    “Sex in the Grey Area in J. M. Coetzee’s Works”

  • J. M. クッツェー作品における性の倫理とポリティクス

    西あゆみ

    黒人研究学会全国大会  2022.6 

     More details

    Language:Japanese  

    Country:Other  

    The Ethics and Politics of Sex in the novels of J. M. Coetzee

  • 南アフリカの英語文学:アパルトヘイトと白人作家たち Invited

    西あゆみ

    青山学院大学グローバル文学理論 ゲスト講義  2022.7 

     More details

    Language:Japanese  

    Country:Other  

    South African Literature in English: Apartheid and White Writers

  • J. M. クッツェー作品における沈黙

    西あゆみ

    九州大学大学院言語文化研究院 言語研究会  2023.10 

     More details

    Language:Others  

    Country:Other  

    Silence in J. M. Coetzee's Novels

  • Bernardine Evaristo’s Verse Novels and Activism: From Lara (2009) to Girl, Woman, Other (2019))

    Ayumi Nishi

    Japan Black Studies Association the 70th Annual Conference  2024.6 

     More details

    Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    researchmap

  • Intersectionality

    Ayumi Nishi

    Kyushu University Public Lecture Series  2023.11 

     More details

    Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    researchmap

▼display all

MISC

  • Book Review of The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed, translated by Ayako Aihara Invited

    Ayumi Nishi

    Black Studies   95   58 - 60   2026.3

     More details

    Authorship:Lead author   Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

  • [Book Review] Hiroko Hagiwara, The Politics of Exhibitions and Black Art Discourse: A Study of the Black Art Movement in 1980s Britain (Suzusawa Shoten, 2022) Invited

    Ayumi Nishi

    Black Studies   94   82 - 84   2025.3

     More details

    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

    researchmap

  • Book Review of Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue by bell hooks and Stuart Hall

    Dokushojin (Weekly book review journal)   2023.6

     More details

    Authorship:Lead author   Publishing type:Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

    researchmap

  • 『マイケル・K』における身体と語りの構造

    西 あゆみ

    日本英文学会関東支部大会Proceedings(オンライン)   2019.10

     More details

    Language:Japanese  

Professional Memberships

  • The Japan Black Studies Association

  • The English Literary Society of Japan

Committee Memberships

  • 九州大学大学院言語文化研究院 言語研究会   庶務  

    2024.4 - 2025.3   

      More details

    Committee type:Academic society

  • 黒人研究学会   事務局補佐、会計監査   Domestic

    2023.6 - 2025.6   

      More details

    Committee type:Academic society

Other

  • 中学校教諭一種免許状(英語)

  • 高等学校教諭一種免許状(英語)

Research Projects

  • イギリス移民文学におけるインターセクショナル・フェミニズムと小説形式の研究

    Grant number:24K16004  2024 - 2027

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Early-Career Scientists

    西 あゆみ

      More details

    Grant type:Scientific research funding

    本研究は1970年代以降のイギリス移民作家による文学作品において表現されるフェミニズム思想と小説の美的形式の関連に焦点を当てたものである。移民女性作家や移民第一世代の子孫としてイギリスに生まれた作家がいかにインターセクショナルなフェミニズム思想をつむいできたかを語りや文体に着目しながら明らかにする。

    CiNii Research

  • 現代南アフリカの英語文学における身体表象

    2019 - 2020

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Body Representations in Contemporary South African Literature

      More details

    Authorship:Principal investigator  Grant type:Competitive funding other than Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Class subject

  • 学術英語・アカデミックライティング

    2025.10 - 2026.3   Second semester

  • 学術英語・アカデミックリテラシー

    2025.6 - 2025.8   Summer quarter

  • Intensive English: Academic Issues 2

    2025.6 - 2025.8   Summer quarter

  • 学術英語・インタラクション

    2025.4 - 2025.9   First semester

  • 学術英語・アカデミックリテラシー

    2025.4 - 2025.6   Spring quarter

  • Intensive English: Academic Issues 1

    2025.4 - 2025.6   Spring quarter

  • 学術英語・プロダクション2

    2024.12 - 2025.2   Winter quarter

  • 学術英語・プロダクション1

    2024.10 - 2024.12   Fall quarter

  • Intensive English: Academic Issues 2

    2024.6 - 2024.8   Summer quarter

  • 学術英語・グローバルイシューズ

    2024.4 - 2024.9   First semester

  • 学術英語・アカデミックイシューズ

    2024.4 - 2024.9   First semester

  • Intensive English: Academic Issues 1

    2024.4 - 2024.6   Spring quarter

▼display all

FD Participation

  • 2024.8   Role:Participation   Title:2024年度科研費対策FD

    Organizer:[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

  • 2023.11   Role:Participation   Title:言語文化研究院FD:ハラスメント防止のための研修

    Organizer:[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

  • 2023.10   Role:Participation   Title:言語文化研究院FD:研究データ管理・公開に係る部局説明会

    Organizer:[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

  • 2023.10   Role:Participation   Title:言語文化研究院FD「LANGX Speaking: 会話AIによる英語コミュニケーション能力診断サービス」

    Organizer:[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

  • 2023.5   Role:Participation   Title:言語文化研究院FD:外国語教育における機械翻訳等の支援ツールの使用についてー英語科目を事例として

    Organizer:[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

  • 2023.4   Role:Participation   Title:令和5年度 第1回全学FD(新任教員の研修)The 1st All-University FD (training for new faculty members) in FY2023

    Organizer:University-wide

▼display all

Social Activities

  • 世界の新語から紐解く令和の 4 年間 英語圏"Intersectionality — 交差する場所から問う— "

    九州大学言語文化研究院公開講座  九州大学伊都キャンパス  2023.11

     More details

    Audience:General, Scientific, Company, Civic organization, Governmental agency

    Type:Lecture