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Futoshi Sakauchi is a full-time Professor at Waseda University's School of Culture, Media and Society and Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Holding a PhD from University College Dublin, his career spans over two decades of research and teaching in Anglo-Irish literature and performance studies.
- Current affiliations: Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Secondary affiliation: Global Education Center
Research focus examines:
- Body and image representations in Irish modernism
- Transformative public space in Joyce/Beckett
- Confession as secular/spiritual narrative
- Gendered corporeality in postcolonial contexts
- Cultural regeneration through performance
Publisher trends show consistent engagement with James Joyce's works, Irish nationalist theatre, and body-centric methodologies. His 2018 project on confession in Irish drama reveals institutional authority's decline in contemporary contexts.
Scientific recognition includes five consecutive Japan Society for the Promotion of Science grants (2007-2023) funding analyses of:
- Modernist body transfiguration
- Confession-as-secular-sacrament
- Technology's impact on bodily representations
As educator, he teaches graduate seminars on body/media studies and performance theory while supervising master's research projects.
