NAKANO Yukio
Faculty of Global and Regional Studies Department of Global and Regional Studies
Associate Professor
Last Updated :2025/07/10

Researcher Profile and Settings

    Profile

    May 2007 Kandidat Nauk, Department of History of Twentieth-Century Russian Literature, Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University.
    March 2009 Completion of Course Work in Doctor Course, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo.
    April 2009 - March 2012 Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
    June 2012 - March 2013 Research Assistant, Department of Policy Studies, Faculty of Policy Studies, The University of Shimane.
    April 2013 - August 2015  Researcher,Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo.
    April 2014 - August 2015 Part-time lecturer, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kanto Gakuin University
    September 2015 - March 2023 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University.

    April 2024 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University.

     

    Russian online publications
    https://magazines.gorky.media/authors/n/yukio-nakano

    Research funding number

    40640800

Research Interests

  • Russian Culture
  • Emigre Literature
  • Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Literature - European / Russian Literature

Research Experience

  • Doshisha University, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Associate Professor, 2024/04 - Today
  • National Institute for the Humanities, National Museum of Ethnology, 2024/04 - 2027/03
  • Doshisha University, Faculty of Global and Resional Studies, Assistant Professor, 2015/10 - 2024/03
  • Kanto Gakuin University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Part-time lecturer, 2014/04 - 2015/09
  • University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Researcher, 2013/04 - 2015/09
  • Faculty of Policy Studies, The University of Shimane, Research Assistant, 2012/06 - 2013/03
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Fellow, 2009/04 - 2012/03
  • Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo., Research Assistant, 2008/07 - 2008/12

Education

  • University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, European and American Studies, 2012/03 - 2012/03
  • The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, European and American Studies, Doctor Course, Completion of Required Courses, 2003/04 - 2009/03
  • Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology, Department of History of Twentieth-Century Russian Literature(MEXT, Long-term Study Abroad Program), 2004/09 - 2007/05
  • The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, European and American Studies, Master Course, 2001/04 - 2003/03
  • Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies, Master Course (Dropout), 2000/04 - 2001/03
  • Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Department of Russian and East European Studies, 1996/04 - 2000/03

Degree

  • Kandidat Nauk, Moscow State University
  • Doctor of Letters, University of Tokyo

Association Memberships

  • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
  • Japanese Association of Russian Scholars

Published Papers

  • Marc Slonim in the History of Russian Emigre Literature
    Yukio Nakano
    Doshisha Global and Regional Studies Review, (21/22) 19 - 45, Apr. 2024, Scientific journal
  • "New Review" in the 1950s
    Yukio Nakano
    New Review, (311) 340 - 347, Jun. 2023, Scientific journal
  • Andrei Sinyavsky and the discourse of madness : psychiatry and punishment in Russia
    Yukio Nakano
    Doshisha Global and Regional Studies Review, (19) 35 - 58, Oct. 2022, Scientific journal
  • The Correspondence between Ivan Bunin and Alexander Bacherac
    Yukio Nakano
    New Review, (303) 325 - 331, 2021, Scientific journal
  • Samidat and Internet: Natalia Gorbanevskaia in LiveJournal
    Yukio Nakano
    Slavistika, 35 329 - 342, 20 Aug. 2020, Research institution
  • Abram Tertz as a medium for interpreting contemporary culture
    Yukio Nakano
    Aspects of interrelation of cultures: Russia-Japan-Sweden, 46 - 54, Jan. 2020, Research institution
  • Russian reception of Japanese Manga and Anime and Russian Youth Culture
    Yukio Nakano
    Eurasian Studies, (57) 49 - 52, 2018, Scientific journal
  • American Period of Mark Aldanov
    Yukio Nakano
    New Review, (286), Mar. 2017, Scientific journal
  • From the Correspondence of Gleb Struve
    Yukio Nakano
    New Review, (282), 2016, Scientific journal
  • Internet as Metephor of Samizdat
    Yukio Nakano
    Value Orientations of Contemporary Journalism(Penza, Russian Federation), 66 - 70, Sep. 2015, International conference proceedings
  • Internet and Dissident Movement in the 1960s in Russia: Natalia Gorbanevskaia in LiveJournal
    Yukio Nakano
    Journalism and Culture(Penza, Russian Federation), 17 - 22, Dec. 2014, Scientific journal
  • History of publishing the novel "We" in Russian language on the basis of archival materials of Gleb Struve, Michael Karpovich and Chekhov Publishing House
    Yukio Nakano
    Modern Study of Literature. Theory. History of Literature. Creative Personalities. To 130-Anniversary of E.I.Zamyatin. Adapted from the Papers of the International Congress of Literary Scholars on 1-4 October 2014. Issue 2., 1 202 - 210, Oct. 2014, International conference proceedings
  • History of Publishing the Novel "We" in Russian
    Yukio Nakano
    New Review, (277), 2014, Scientific journal
  • On the History of the Novel We, 1937-1952: Zamiatin's We and the Chekhov Publishing House.
    Yukio Nakano
    Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 45 441 - 446, 2011, Scientific journal
  • On Gleb Struve, Historian of Russian Emigrant Literature
    Yukio Nakano
    Japan Border Studies, 北海道大学スラブ研究センター内グローバルCOEプログラム「境界研究の拠点形成: スラブ・ユーラシアと世界」, (1) 145 - 164, 2010, Research institution
  • Biography of a Russian Emigrant Historian of Literature: On D.S.Mirsky
    Yukio Nakano
    Slavistika(Tokyo), 26 115 - 127, 2008, Research institution
  • Creative Biography of Andrei Sinyavsky through the Prism of Literary Emploi Abram Tertz
    Yukio Nakano
    Moscow State University, 2007, Research society
  • Abram Tertz and "Manuscriptness": Creation of Literary Emploi in the works of A. Sinyavsky
    Yukio Nakano
    Bulletin of Moscow State university, (1) 88 - 94, 2007, Research institution
  • Abram Tertz as a Literary Emploi in the works of Andrei Sinyavsky
    Yukio Nakano
    Studia Slavica(Tallinn, Estonia), (6) 67 - 76, 2006, Research institution

MISC

  • Tidbits: Literature
    Yukio Nakano
    Eurasian Studies, (68) 96 - 99, Mar. 2024, Introduction scientific journal
  • Some Words on the Works of Professor Melnikova
    Yukio Nakano
    Doshisha Global Regional Studies Review, (18) 165 - 168, 2022
  • A Summary of the Worship at JASRLL 2020
    Yukio Nakano
    Eurasian Studies, (64) 50 , Jul. 2021, Summary national conference
  • Some Words on the Works of Professor Matsumoto
    Yukio Nakano
    Doshisha Global;Regional;Studies Review, (15) 253 - 255, 2021
  • Book Review: Shunichiro Akikusa. How "World Literature" was tempered.
    Yukio Nakano
    Bulletin of the Japan Association for the Study of Russian Language and Literature, (53) 143 - 158, 2021
  • Representations of Japanese Culture in Contemporary Russian Society
    Kaori Yunoki; Naoya Watanabe; Elena Baibikova; Yukio Nakano
    Bulletin of the Japan Association for the Study of Russian Language and Literature, (53) 307 , 2021
  • Interview with JSPS Fellow in the U.S.
    Yukio Nakano
    JSPS Newsletter, (18) 8 - 8, Jun. 2010, Others

Books etc

  • Rappers On the Border: An Ethnography of Voice
    Yukio Nakano
    Seidosha, Jun. 2024, Joint work, "Emigrating" Rappers : "Literary Trials" in the 2020s and War in Ukraine
  • The Journey from Russian Literature. Interlacing People and Language.
    Tadashi Nakamura; Atsushi Sakaniwa; Hikaru Ogura
    Publishing House "Minerva", May 2022, Contributor, Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky(Abram Tertz) "Good Night"(1984)
  • Natasha's Dance A Cultural History of Russia
    Figes, Orlando; Yusuke Toriyama; Yukiko Tatsumi; Yukio Nakano
    Hakusuisha, Aug. 2021, Joint translation
  • Encyclopedia of Russian Culture
    Yukio Nakano
    Maruzen Publishing, Oct. 2019, Contributor, Famous Russians Around the World, Dictionary or encycropedia
  • Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History
    Andrei Sinyavsky
    Misuzu Shobo, Dec. 2013, Joint translation
  • Russian Literature: Masterpieces and Heroes
    Yukio Nakano
    Jiyu-Kokuminsha, 2009, Contributor, 233-236

Presentations

  • SIlence of Russian Hip-Hop in Ukrainian War: Russian Pop Culture 2022-2025 after the publication of "Rappers of Borders"
    Yukio Nakano
    Popular Music Practice of "Non-Western" Countries, National Museum of Ethnology, 25 May 2025, 25 May 2025, 25 May 2025, Oral presentation
  • The New Review and Russian Émigré Editors in Correspondence
    Yukio Nakano
    Annual Congress of Association for Slavic and East European and Eurasian Studies, 14 Oct. 2022, Oral presentation
  • War in Ukraine and Russian Hip-hop: Postsocialistic Music and Nationalism
    Yukio Nakano
    Meeting on Religion and Subculture in East Eurasian Research at National Institute for the Humanities, 17 Jul. 2022, 17 Jul. 2022, 17 Jul. 2022, Oral presentation
  • Marc Slonim and Gleb Struve in Their Correspondence
    Yukio Nakano
    Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, 03 Dec. 2021, 01 Dec. 2021, 03 Dec. 2021, Oral presentation
  • Ivan Bunin and Alexander Bakhrakh in Correspondence: From Archival Materials
    Yukio Nakano
    ASEEES, 07 Nov. 2020, 05 Nov. 2020, 08 Nov. 2020, Oral presentation
  • Three historians of Russian literature: Mirsky, Struve, Slonim(based on archival materials)
    Yukio Nakano
    Forum "Outline of History of Russian Emigre Literature", 19 Feb. 2020, 19 Feb. 2020, Nominated symposium
  • Russian Emigrants in Japan
    Yukio Nakano
    ASEEES, 23 Nov. 2019, Oral presentation
  • Foreign language education in Russia
    Yukio Nakano
    Research on Foreign language education abroad, 02 Mar. 2019, Public discourse
  • Evgeny Zamiatin and Jean Renoir
    Yukio Nakano
    ASEEES, 11 Nov. 2017, Oral presentation
  • Mark Aldanov and the Chekhov Publishing House
    Yukio Nakano
    ASEEES, 18 Nov. 2016, Oral presentation
  • Utopian imagination in Russia and the West in the 1950s and 1960s in the correspondence of Gleb Struve and Russian emigrant writers
    Yukio Nakano
    ASEEES, 20 Nov. 2015, Oral presentation
  • Aleksander Bacherac in his correspondence with Russian emigre writers
    Yukio Nakano
    ICCEES IX World Congress, 08 Aug. 2015, Oral presentation
  • Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Gleb and Petr Struve
    Yukio Nakano
    International conference "Russian literature and culture in the conditions of globalization". Annual scientific conference of Chinese Association for the Study of Russian Literature., 26 Apr. 2015, Invited oral presentation
  • Polish Emigre Journal "Kultura" and Jerzy Giedroyc
    Yukio Nakano
    Annual Congress of the Japan Association for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 20 Mar. 2015, Oral presentation
  • Good Night, Soviet Civilization: Lectures of Andrei Sinyavsky in France
    Yukio Nakano
    International Workshop "The Collasp of Soviet Union and the Possibilities of Literature of Historical Fantasy, 14 Feb. 2015, Invited oral presentation
  • Internet and dissident movement: Natalia Gorbanevskaia in LiveJournal
    Yukio Nakano
    Association for the studies of representations in Eurasia, Slavic and Eurasian Research Center, 18 Dec. 2014, Oral presentation
  • History of Russian Emigre Literary Criticism: Mirsky, Struve, Slonim.
    Yukio Nakano
    Russian Literature in the Context of Twenty First Century: Past, Present, and Future, 25 Nov. 2014, Public discourse
  • Edmund Wilson and Roman Grynberg in archival materials
    Yukio Nakano
    Russian Literature in the Context of Twenty First Century: Past, Present and Future., 25 Nov. 2014, Invited oral presentation
  • Gleb Struve and Michael Karpovich: the Chekhov Publishing House and the Revival of the 'Blacklisted' Writers
    Yukio Nakano
    46th Annual Conference, Association for Slavic East European, & Eurasian Studies(San Antonio, USA), 20 Nov. 2014, Oral presentation
  • Russian transnational literature as diaspora literature
    Yukio Nakano
    Annual Conference of Japanese Association of Russian Scholars(Yamagata, Japan), 02 Nov. 2014, Oral presentation
  • History of publishing the novel "We" in Russian language on the basis of archival materials of Gleb Struve, Michael Karpovich and Chekhov Publishing House
    Yukio Nakano
    The First Russian-Ukrainian Philological Lectures. "Dialogue of Slavic Cultures". International Conference of Literary Scholars. To the anniversaries of M.Y.Lermontov, T.G.Shevchenko and E.I.Zamiatin(Tambov and Elets, Russia), 02 Oct. 2014, Oral presentation
  • Nikolai Gumilev and Gleb Struve
    Yukio Nakano
    Literary World of Modernism and Modernism in World Literature International Conference (Shanghai, China), 07 Dec. 2013, Oral presentation
  • Alien as a Soviet citizen: Andrei Sinyavsky's "Pkhents" and Representation of alienation
    Yukio Nakano
    Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (Boston, USA), 23 Nov. 2013, Oral presentation
  • "Borisoglebskii Soiuz" and Tamizdat
    Yukio Nakano
    Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Russian Literary Scholars(Weihai, China), 24 Jul. 2013, Invited oral presentation
  • Emigration and Canonization: Marc Slonim and his Predecessors
    Yukio Nakano
    44th Annual Conference, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies(New Orleans, USA), 15 Nov. 2012, Oral presentation
  • Giedroyc and Tamizdat - Publishing Russian Literature in Polonia in Paris
    Yukio Nakano
    Annual Conference of Japanese Association of Russian Scholars, Nov. 2011, Oral presentation
  • Speed of Sinyavsky: On "Unguided Thoughts"
    Yukio Nakano
    International Conference "Andrei Sinyavsky in the Context of Period"(Moscow, Russia), Mar. 2011, Oral presentation
  • Sinyavsky and Brodsky: Writing on Art beyond Emigration
    Yukio Nakano
    42nd Annual Conference, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies(Los Angeles, USA), Nov. 2010, Oral presentation
  • Abram Tertz as a Medium for Interpreting Contemporary Culture
    Yukio Nakano
    Annual Convention 2009, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies(Boston, USA), Nov. 2009, Oral presentation
  • Abram Tertz or Pushkin: "Pure Art" in the Works of Andrei Sinyavsky
    Yukio Nakano
    International Conference of Young Philologists(Tartu, Estonia), Apr. 2006, Oral presentation
  • Abram Tertz as a Literary Emploi in the works of Andrei Sinyavsky
    Yukio Nakano
    Second International Conference of Young Philologists(Tallinn, Estonia), Feb. 2005, Oral presentation

Research Projects

  • East Eurasian Studies Project
    National Institutes for the Humanities, Global Area Studies Program, 2022/04 -2027/03, Coinvestigator not use grants, Religion and Subculture, National Museum of Ethnology
  • ソヴィエトの非公式文学・亡命文学における狂気の言説
    岩本 和久; 中野 幸男; 宮川 絹代
    本研究はソ連の非公式文学における「狂気」の諸相を探り、作家たちの「抵抗」の対象を明らかにしようとするものである。冷戦期の政治イデオロギーとは別の観点から非公式文学を特徴づけること、すなわち、ソ連批判のテクストとしてではなく、近代批判のテクストとしてソヴィエトの非公式芸術を理解することを目指し、さらにソ連後の文学との影響関係をも明らかにしようとしている。 2021年度はアンドレイ・タルコフスキーの映画製作を再検討し、日本ロシア文学会での報告を行なった。また、最初の長編映画である『僕の村は戦場だった』について、詳細な分析を行なった。タルコフスキーはかつてソ連体制との軋轢という観点から議論されており、公式な路線として強要される社会主義リアリズムと、それと異なる自由な創造の対立の図式を典型的に表すものと理解されていた。しかし、タルコフスキーの創作は社会主義体制を直接に批判するものではなく、むしろ、近代文明の批判というべきものである。そこには超自然的な神秘や魔力への関心、あるいはカルロス・カスタネダなどのオカルトの影響を見ることができる。 2021年度の研究では、反体制芸術としてではなく「普通の映画」としてタルコフスキー作品を論じることを試み、「追跡と逃走」という古典的ハリウッド映画の基本的な形式の観点から、タルコフスキーの創作史を論じた。その成果は日本ロシア文学会で口頭発表を行っている。また、タルコフスキーの最初の長編映画である『僕の村は戦場だった』について、同様に危機やそこからの逃走というテーマを検討した。これについては2022年度に論文の形で発表する予定である。 その他、2021年度も検討したパーヴェル・ペッペルシテインの短編集『地獄の裏切者』について、同書の日本語訳(水声社)の解説として研究成果を公開し、その反近代性やロシア思想との関連を明らかにした。, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 2020/04 -2023/03, 基盤研究(C), 札幌大学
  • Return of Russian Emigrant Literature and its Reception: Diaspora, Trauma, Visual Culture.
    Yukio Nakano
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2013/04 -2017/03, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • Research on "Multiplicity of Visions" and "Consciousness of Alienation" in Russian Emigre Literature
    Yukio Nakano
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2009/04 -2012/03, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • Research on "Multiplicity of Visions" and "Consciousness of Alienation" in Russian Emigre Literature
    Yukio Nakano
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Excellent Young Researcher Overseas Visit Program, 2009/12 -2011/02, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • Beyond the Dissidence: Critical Cultural Succession in the 1970's Russian Emigrant Culture
    Yukio Nakano
    The Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation, Research Grant, 2006/09 -2007/08, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding