kumabe ayumi

Center for Language EducationAssistant Professor

Degree

  • Bachelor of Arts, Kyushu University, Mar. 2012
  • Master of Arts, Kyushu University, Mar. 2014
  • Doctor of Literature, Kyushu University, Mar. 2022

Research Keyword

  • Body (Corporeality)
  • gender
  • the view of life and death
  • the image of woman
  • Victorian literature
  • George MacDonald作品研究

Field of study

  • Humanities & social sciences, Gender studies, Gender
  • Humanities & social sciences, Literature - British/English-languag

Career

  • 01 Apr. 2020
    西南学院大学言語教育センター 助教
  • 01 Sep. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2020
    福岡女学院大学
  • 01 Apr. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2020
    九州女子大学・短期大学
  • 01 Apr. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2020
    福岡女子大学
  • 01 Apr. 2017 - 31 Mar. 2020
    九州工業大学
  • 01 Apr. 2016 - 31 Mar. 2020
    福岡女子短期大学

Educational Background

  • 01 Apr. 2014 - 23 Mar. 2022, Kyushu University, 人文科学府
  • 01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2020, Kyushu University, 人文科学府
  • 01 Apr. 2012 - 31 Mar. 2014, Kyushu University, 人文科学府
  • 01 Apr. 2008 - 31 Mar. 2012, Kyushu University, A1

Committee Memberships

  • Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2023
    事務局 書記・大会準備, 日本英文学会九州支部

Papers

  • "In a Fall of Torrent Hair:" The Image of Woman and the View of Life in George MacDonald’s Works
    Ayumi Kumabe
    North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, 42, 1-28, Oct. 2024, Reviewed
  • The "Antenatal" Tomb and the Singing Women: The Female Voice and Body in George MacDonald’s Phantastes
    Ayumi Kumabe
    North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, 42, 1-66, Oct. 2024, Reviewed
  • Death as Birth and the Mutuality of Life: Being Born into the World through the Female Body as a Door in At the Back of the North Wind
    Ayumi Kumabe
    North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, 41, 1-40, Sep. 2023, Reviewed
  • The "Antenatal Tomb" and Singing Women: Female Voice and Body, and the View of Life in George MacDonald's Phantastes
    Ayumi Kumabe
    Kyushu University English Review, (65), 41-80, Mar. 2023, Reviewed
  • The Image of Woman and the View of Life through Untying Hair in George MacDonald's Works
    Ayumi Kumabe
    Tinker Bell: Studies in Children's Literature in English, (68), 17-32, Mar. 2023, Reviewed
  • “Lilith Shall Be Saved by Her Childbearing:” Gynocentric Consideration on the Female Body and the Relationship between Mother and Daughter in George MacDonald’s Lilith
    Ayumi Kumabe
    North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, 40, 1-101, Aug. 2022, Reviewed
  • Speaking the Unspoken Tales: The Image of Woman and the View of Life and Death in George MacDonald's Works
    Ayumi Kumabe
    Doctoral Dissertation, 1-317, Mar. 2022, Reviewed
  • Lona, "An Open Channel" Lets Lilith's Stream of Life Flow: The Inseparable Relationship between Mother and Daughter in Lilith
    Ayumi Kumabe
    Center for Language Education: Annual Review of Language Learning and Teaching, (12), 1-14, Mar. 2022
  • Day and Night Observed by the Girl with Innocent Eyes and the Existence of Her Blind Mother: Life and Death in George MacDonald's "The History of Photogen and Nycteris"
    Ayumi Kumabe
    Center for Language Education: Annual Review of Language Learning and Teaching, (11), 1-31, Mar. 2021
  • 珠を持った乙女の成長―George MacDonaldのPhantastesにおける女性像と死生観―
    隈部歩
    英語圏児童文学研究 Tinker Bell, (62), 49-63, Mar. 2017, Reviewed
  • To "Go Out" and See the World through Innocent Eyes: The View of Life and Death in George MacDonald's "The Day Boy and the Night Girl"
    Ayumi Kumabe
    九大英文学, (58), 37-56, Mar. 2016, Reviewed
  • George MacDonaldのAt the Back of the North Windにおける「死のドア」と「生のドア」
    隈部歩
    英語圏児童文学研究 Tinker Bell, (61), 29-42, Mar. 2016, Reviewed
  • The Family Tree in Blossom: The Structure of Peace in George MacDonald's Princess Books
    Ayumi Kumabe
    九大英文学, (57), 21-40, Mar. 2015, Reviewed
  • 「リリスでさえも出産によって救われるだろう」―ジョージ・マクドナルドの『リリス』における生命の輪の継承と新生の可能性
    隈部歩
    九大英文学, (56), 15-34, Mar. 2014, Reviewed

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • Seeing from Women's Points of View: The Mother-Daughter Relationship through MacDonald's Imaginatively Prophetic Descriptions of the Female Body.
    Ayumi Kumabe
    George MacDonald Bicentenary Conference, May 2024
  • 触れ合う手、流れる血―George MacDonaldのAt the Back of the North WindとThe Princess and the Goblinにおける女性の身体性、女性同士の関係、そして少女像
    隈部歩
    英語圏児童文学会西日本支部秋の研究会, Sep. 2023
  • 身体と魂を得たウンディーネーGeorge MacDonaldの“The Light Princess”における女性の身体性と生命観
    隈部歩
    日本英語圏児童文学会西日本支部春の研究会, Mar. 2023, 日本英語圏児童文学会西日本支部
  • Ireneで始まりIreneで終わる―George MacDonaldのPrincess二部作における平和の円環構造―
    隈部歩
    日本イギリス児童文学会第46回研究大会, Nov. 2016
  • 少女の無垢な目を通して見るgo outした先の世界とblind motherの存在―George MacDonaldの"The Day Boy and the Night Girl"における生と死-
    隈部歩
    日本イギリス児童文学会第45回研究大会, Nov. 2015
  • "The Door of Death" and "The Door of Life" in At the Back of the North Wind
    隈部歩
    日本イギリス児童文学会第44回研究大会, Nov. 2014
  • Lilithにおける「生命の輪」の起点の苦悩
    隈部歩
    第66回日本英文学会九州支部大会, Oct. 2013

Academic society affiliations

  • May 2019
    国際ジェンダー学会
  • Apr. 2015
    日本ヴィクトリア朝文化研究学会
  • Apr. 2014
    英語圏児童文学会(旧:日本イギリス児童文学会)
  • Apr. 2013
    日本英文学会

Others

  • Lilith’s Closed Hand Becomes the Seed of Life
    Feb. 2021