ISHIKAWA, Daichi
Faculty of Science and Technology Dept. Foreign Languages and Liberal Arts Assistant Professor
Research Overview
I am researching (long) 19th-century British literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on British Aestheticism in its global context. My current project investigates the historical connection between curiosity and cosmopolitan aestheticism in various 19th- and early 20th-century writers, including Walter Pater, J. A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde and Lafcadio Hearn, with the aim to contextualise them within a broader map of curiosity and the history of ideas.
Specialty
English Literature, Aestheticism, Curiosity, Intellectual History