Roger J.A. PRIOR

Title	Associate Professor
Degree	M.A.
Department	Centre for Fundamental Education (Hibikino)
E-mail	r-prior[ at ]kitakyu-u.ac.jp ＊Please change "[at]" to "@".
Education	1997 B.A. Hons (First Class) in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield 2005 M.A. in Modern Japanese Literature, Seijo University
Employment History	2005-2009 Hosei University (part-time) 2006-2009 Tokyo Institute of Technology (part-time) 2006-2009 Seisen Women's University (part-time)
Teaching Activities	TOEIC, English language, English presentation; debate
Research Interest	Translation and translation theory Comparative Literature Early Detective Fiction in Britain, Japan, and the USA
Publications	Essays Hara Houitsuan's "Shiizaa Zansatsu Jiken" and the Translation of Humour: the Interpretation and Rendering of Literary Allusions, Bulletin of Seisen Unversity Research Institute for Cultural Science (Vol. XXVIII) (2007) Empirical Approaches to Text Translation - Resurrecting the "Dead" Author, Bulletin of the Center for Fundamental Education (Vol. 8), The University of Kitakyushu (Nov. 2010) The Translation of Puns and the Voice of the Translator: Japanese Translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Bulletin of the Center for Fundamental Education Vol 12, 【平成24年度（2012）】 Translations Masaru's Song (Ori no Uta) (A play). Included in a collection of plays by Aramaki Mizue entitled Hoshiai (Kadensha, October 2002). Agasa Kurisuti Daijiten (The Complete Christie - An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia) by Matthew Bunson (English to Japanese). Translated with Hiroko Sasada. (Shufusha, November 2010) The Oral Chronicle of the Boorana in Southern Ethiopia: Modes of Construction and Preservation of History among People without Writing (joint translation with James Watt) (Lit Verlag GmbH & Co., 2016). 原作は、大場千景著『無文字社会における歴史の生成と記憶の技法』（清水弘文堂書房、2014年） Politics of Human Network in African Conflicts: Kamajor/The CDF in Sierra Leone" (joint translation with James Watt) (Langaa Rpcig, 2019) 原作は岡野英之著の『アフリカの内戦と武装勢力ーーシエラレオネにおける人脈ネットワークの生成と変容』(昭和堂、2015年) by Okano Hideyuki, The Three Kingdoms Volume 1: The Peach Garden Oath. A bilingual edition of selected sections of Yokoyama Mitsuteru's manga 『三国志』(Ushio Shuppansha, 2019) The Three Kingdoms Volume 2: What Makes a Hero?. A bilingual edition of selected sections of Yokoyama Mitsuteru's manga 『三国志』(Ushio Shuppansha, 2019)
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Roger J.A. PRIOR

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