KAMBE NAOKI
| Department of Foreign Language Studies | Associate Professor |
Degree
Career
- Apr. 2026 - Present
Seinan Gakuin University, Faculty of Foreign Language Studies, Department of Foreign Language Studies, Associate Professor - Apr. 2024 - Present
RIKKYO UNIVERSITY, College of Intercultural Communication Department of Intercultural Communication, 兼任講師 - Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2026
Hirosaki Gakuin University, Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of English Language and Literature, Professor - Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2024
Musashino University, Faculty of Global Studies Department of Global Business, 非常勤講師 - Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2024
International Christian University, College of Liberal Arts Division of Arts and Sciences, 非常勤講師 - Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2024
RIKKYO UNIVERSITY, College of Intercultural Communication Department of Intercultural Communication, Specially Appointed Associate Professor - 01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2019
RIKKYO UNIVERSITY, College of Intercultural Communication Department of Intercultural Communication, Assistant Professor - Sep. 2007 - Mar. 2018
Kanda University of International Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of International Communication, International Communication Major, 非常勤講師 - Sep. 2007 - Mar. 2008
Tokai University, 外国語教育センター, 非常勤講師
Educational Background
Award
Papers
- Multiple Temporalities of the Idomeni Camp in Greece
Naoki Kambe
Local Theories of Argument, 327-332, 2021, Reviewed - Accumulating Affect and Visual Argument: The Case of the 2015 Japanese Hostage Crisis
Naoki Kambe
Networking Argument, 203-208, 2020, Reviewed - Perspective by Incongruity in Internet Memes: The Case of the 2015 Japanese Hostage Crisis
Naoki Kambe
Recovering Argument, 252-257, 2018, Reviewed - Representing Disaster with Resignation and Nostalgia: Japanese Men’s Responses to the 2011 Earthquake
Naoki Kambe
RCC Perspectives Men and Nature: Hegemonic Masculinities and Environmental Change, 4, 15-22, 2017, Reviewed - The Logic of "Jiko Sekinin" (Self Responsibility) and "Proper" Citizenship in Contemporary Japan
Naoki Kambe
Proceedings of the 3rd Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, 119-125, Aug. 2008, Not reviewed
Books and other publications
- Gender Fluidity in Japanese Arts and Culture: Critical Essays
Dean Conrad; Sayuri Hirano, Contributor, The Politics of Trans Visibility in Japanese Film: Close-Knit and Midnight Swan (pp.139-160)
McFarland, 2025, Reviewed
9781476690070 - Men, Masculinities and Earth: Contending with the (m)Anthropocene
Paul Pulé; Martin Hultman, Contributor, Expressing Resignation and Nostalgia as/for Ecological Masculinities: Japanese Male Writers’ Responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake (pp.373-392)
Palgrave, 2021
9783030544850 - グローバル社会における異文化コミュニケーション―身近な「異」から考える
池田理知子; 塙幸枝; 青沼智; 宮崎新; 神戸直樹; 石黒武人; 鳥越千絵; 師岡淳也; 河合優子, Contributor, 異文化交流の意味：期待にそえないメッセージ (pp.99-109)
三修社, 2019
9784384059373
Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
- A Democratic Way of Seeing: Dorothea Lange’s Impounded Images of Japanese American Internment as Visual Argument
Naoki Kambe
The 22nd Alta Conference on Argumentation (Utah, USA), Aug. 2025 - Queering English-Japanese Translation
Naoki Kambe
Japan: Pre-Modern, Modern, Contemporary (at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies), Sep. 2024 - A Non-Western Perspective on Care and Ecological Masculinities
Naoki Kambe
Performing Care & Carelessness (at University of Otago, Dunedin), Feb. 2024 - Beyond the Family and Normativity: A Queer Reading of Spy x Family
Naoki Kambe
第５２回日本コミュニケーション学会年次大会, Jun. 2023 - The Politics of Trans Visibility: A Feminist Analysis of Close-Knit (2017) and Midnight Swan (2020)
Naoki Kambe
第５１回日本コミュニケーション学会年次大会, Jun. 2022 - 日本のディベート教育再考「日本のアカデミックディベートは『オワコン』である。真か 偽か。(パネルディスカッション)
菅家知洋, 神戸直樹, 是澤克哉, 田島慎朗, 師岡淳也, 青沼智, 瀬能和彦, 松本茂
第５０回日本コミュニケーション学会年次大会, Jun. 2021 - Multiple Temporalities of the Idomeni Camp in Greece: A Non-Local’s Speculative Exercise in Visual Argument
Naoki Kambe
The 21st Alta Conference on Argumentation, Aug. 2019 - Vulnerability in Resistance: A Japanese (Former) Hostage’s Vulnerable Body as Irony
Naoki Kambe
第４８回日本コミュニケーション学会年次大会 - Accumulating Affect: The Case of the “I am Kenji Movement
Naoki Kambe
The 8th Budapest Visual Learning Conference - Perspective by Incongruity in Juxtaposed Photographs: Memories of the Idomeni Refugee Camp
Naoki Kambe
The 8th Tensions of Europe Conference - Nature and Mujo: The Ecological Nihonjinron after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Naoki Kambe
The 15th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies - Accumulating Affect and Visual Argument: The Case of the Japanese Hostage Crisis in 2015
Naoki Kambe
The 20th Alta Conference on Argumentation - Affects and Global Pictorial Discourse: The Case of the Japanese Hostage Crisis in 2015.
Naoki Kambe
The 5th Tokyo Conference on Argumentation - Reflecting on My/His Feminist Pedagogy
Naoki Kambe
Sex and the Academy Conference - Perspective by Incongruity in Internet Memes
Naoki Kambe
The 19th Alta Conference on Argumentation - Circulation of Affects in Digital Culture: The Case of the Japanese Hostage Crisis in 2015
Naoki Kambe
第４５回日本コミュニケーション学会年次大会 - Nature, Aesthetics, and the Japanese
Naoki Kambe
The 12th International Conference on History and Archeology - コミュニケーション教育における「見る」実践：「非言語コミュニケーション論における試 み
神戸直樹
第４４回日本コミュニケーション学会年次大会 - Nature and the Japanese: The Nihonjinron after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Naoki Kambe
第４３回日本コミュニケーション学会年次大会 - 大学教育におけるコミュニケーション学の位置づけ：非言語コミュニケーション論教授法か らみえてくる今後の可能性
神戸直樹
第４３回日本コミュニケーション学会年次大会 - Representations/Reconstructions of the Japanese after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Naoki Kambe
The 4th Tokyo Conference on Argumentation
Courses
- General English 総合英語
2026 - Present
Seinan Gakuin University - 基礎演習
2026 - Present
西南学院大学 - Communication Studies A
2026 - Present
Seinan Gakuin University - Communication and Citizenship
2024 - Present
Rikkyo University - 非言語コミュニケーション論
2016 - Present
立教大学 - Seminar in Sexuality Studies I & II （欧米文学・文化演習IB・IIB)
2024 - 2025
Hirosaki Gakuin University - Seminar in Gender Studies I & II （欧米文学・文化演習IA・IIA)
2024 - 2025
Hirosaki Gakuin University - Introduction to American Culture （欧米文学・文化概論 I）
2024 - 2025
Hirosaki Gakuin University - Basic English Reading II
2024 - 2025
Hirosaki Gakuin University - 非言語コミュニケーション論（教養演習H）
2024 - 2025
弘前学院大学 - 異文化コミュニケーション概論（教養演習D）
2024 - 2025
弘前学院大学 - Cultural Studies A: Introduction to Cultural Studies
2024 - 2025
Hirosaki Gakuin University - Graduation Thesis
2025
Hirosaki Gakuin University - 基礎演習I・II
2024 - 2024
弘前学院大学 - Cultural Studies D: Introduction to Visual Culture
2024 - 2024
Hirosaki Gakuin University - Cross-cultural Communication A & B
2023 - 2023
Musashino University - Gender and Communication
2022 - 2023
Rikkyo University - Language, Politics, and the Media
2021 - 2023
International Christian University - Senior Thesis & Research
2020 - 2023
Rikkyo University - Advanced Seminar I, II, III (Gender and Sexuality Studies)
2019 - 2023
Rikkyo University - Introduction to Communication
2016 - 2023
Rikkyo University - Communication Seminar 3AR: Academic Listening & Speaking
2014 - 2023
Rikkyo University - 基礎演習
2014 - 2023
立教大学 - Seminar in English (Gender and Sexuality in the Media)
2019 - 2021
Rikkyo University - Gender Issues in Communication
2016 - 2021
Rikkyo University - Reading & Writing 1, 2
2016 - 2018
Rikkyo University - Seminar in English (Persuasion)
2016 - 2018
Rikkyo University - Cultural Exchange
2014 - 2018
Rikkyo University - 非言語コミュニケーション論 I、II
2009 - 2018
神田外語大学 - Seminar in English (Argumentation and Debate)
2017 - 2017
Rikkyo University - Communication Seminar 3A: Japanology
2014 - 2016
Rikkyo University - Introduction to Communication I
2014 - 2016
Kanda University of International Studies - 異文化コミュニケーション学への招待
2015 - 2015
立教大学 - English Lecture (Gender & Nonverbal Communication)
2014 - 2015
Rikkyo University - 日本語プレゼンテーション
2007 - 2014
神田外語大学 - English Public Speaking
2007 - 2014
Kanda University of International Studies - Debate (Japanese)
2007 - 2014
Kanda University of International Studies - コミュニケーション学入門
2007 - 2007
東海大学 - Persuasive Speaking
2005 - 2006
Wayne State University - Public Speaking
2004 - 2006
Wayne State University - Oral Communication
2002 - 2003
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