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Robert PRESLAR

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略歴

2009年 12月 Graduated from the State University of New York at Albany, Faculty of Humanities, English Department, BA
2010年 9月 Fence Books コンサルタント<米国>
2012年 12月 Graduated from the State University of New York at Albany, Faculty of Humanities, English Department, MA
2012年 8月 ECC Corporation 英語講師
2014年 4月 九州産業大学 非常勤講師
2016年 4月 中村学園大学 非常勤講師
2019年 4月 西南学院大学言語教育センター 助教
2021年 4月  西南学院大学大学院文学研究科英文学専攻博士後期課程修了

研究テーマ

My research focuses on the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the texts (including novels, short stories, and stage plays) those films are based on.

研究概要

In achieving my MA degree from SUNY Albany, I took a special interest in the works of William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, and Alfred Hitchcock, and in the philosophies and theories of Ferdinand de Saussure and Jacques Lacan. My current research focuses on adaptations, especially films directed by Alfred Hitchcock which have been adapted from novels or short stories. Viewing these films in light of their literary sources can provide new insights and perspectives on both film and text. In my PhD dissertation, “Webs of Signification in Hitchcock’s Adaptations: An Analysis of Interconnecting Tropes in The Lodger and Vertigo,” I analyzed the Hitchcock films The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) and Vertigo (1958) alongside their respective source texts (The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes and D’entre les morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac). In this dissertation, the source texts of each film were investigated in order to explicate the differences and continuities between film and novel, as well as to better understand the ways that The Lodger and Vertigo relate to one another. Currently, I am analyzing Hitchcock’s 1929 film, Blackmail, in relation to the stage play on which it is based, paying particular attention to the ways that geographic movements and dialogue signify in both source text and adaptation. My research is not limited to film and literature, however. I have also investigated the ways that video games, specifically Detroit: Become Human (2018), relates to and is influenced by other, more classic literary works, such as Karel ?apek's 1920 stage play, R.U.R.

主要研究業績等

  • Robert Preslar(2024) "Embodied Knowledge and Impenetrable Subjectivities: Lowndes' and Hitchcock's, The Lodger." Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, Apr. 2024, pp. 1.1-1.19.
  • Robert Preslar(2020) "Traces of Poe's 'pestilent and mystic vapor' in Hitchcock's Vertigo" QUEST, vol. 25, 2020, pp. 1-15
  • Robert Preslar(2017) "Making Sense: Materiality and Performance in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony" Kyushu American Literature, no. 58, 2017, pp.1-13

学会発表

  • Robert Preslar(2022) "Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: Guilt, Obsession, and the Revivification of the Past." InMind Support 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference, "Memory, Guilt and Shame." InMindsupport.com
  • Robert Preslar, Tasuke Okamoto, Takashi Yagura, and Azrail(2019) "Playing American Literature, Reading Detroit: Become Human" The 2019 December Annual Meeting of the Kyushu American Literature Society, Seinan Gakuin University
  • Robert Preslar(2019) "Traces of Poe's 'pestilent and mystic vapor' in Hitchcock's Vertigo" 65th Annual Kyushu American Literature Society Conference, The University of the Ryukyus

関連専門分野

Adaptation, Film Studies, American Literature

担当講義科目

学部

担当科目 開講期 開講年度 内容
欧米言語文化演習Ⅰ?Ⅱ 前期 2022年度 Film Studies Seminar
英語文化文献講読(英米言語文化文献講読Ⅱ) 1Q 2022年度 Reading American literature
英語文章表現演習 2Q 2022年度 Writing Skills
Studying Japanese and Western Narratives through the Films of Hayao Miyazaki 3Q 2022年度 Japanese Culture and Film
英語文化概論 4Q 2022年度 Western Culture and Film

活用可能な分野(社会への貢献等)

Film and literature pose questions concerning the most fundamental aspects of human experience, and offer the opportunity to discuss and to investigate a myriad of topics which will always be relevant to contemporary culture. The topics examined through my research often include but are by no means limited to issues of gender, violence, embodied identity, and the limitations of visual and linguistic expression.

研究者としてのニーズ

Access to research journals, books, and other materials relating to literature, film, literary criticism and philosophy.

高校等への出前講義テーマ

Considering how to “read” and discuss a film or a classic text, as well as how to form and express opinions on complex subjects.

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