2024/07/11
The Keio University Faculty of Letters has selected the winners of the 6th Nishiwaki Junzaburo Academic Award.
The Nishiwaki Junzaburo Academic Award is a research encouragement award established in 2015 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Letters, with the hope of encouraging the further success of up-and-coming researchers affiliated with the faculty. Eligibility is open to full-time faculty and staff of Keio University, graduates of the Faculty of Letters, and alumni of the Graduate School of Letters or the Graduate School of Human Relations, who are, in principle, under 50 years of age. The award covers publications in the research fields of literature, philology, aesthetics and art history, linguistics, and the arts.
The Toshihiko Izutsu Academic Award was also established as a research encouragement award around the same time as the Nishiwaki Junzaburo Academic Award. Since 2016, the Toshihiko Izutsu Academic Award and the Nishiwaki Junzaburo Academic Award have been presented alternately in odd- and even-numbered years, respectively.
The award ceremony was held on Tuesday, July 9, at the Mita Campus. Takao Sato, Dean of the Faculty of Letters, presented award certificates and supplementary prizes to the winners, Maiko Kodaira and Natsuko Kuwabara. Congratulatory remarks were also offered by the selection committee of the Nishiwaki Junzaburo Academic Award.
Award-winning work: "Tracing and Tearing: The Gender of Fiction" (Ibunsya, 2023)
Author: Maiko Kodaira (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Keio University)
Award-winning work: "The Later Life of the Virgin Mary: A Genealogy of Iconography in Medieval and Renaissance Italy" (Nagoya University Press, 2023)
Author: Natsuko Kuwabara (Full-time Lecturer, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)