Welcome to Masahiro Kitano's Page

At present, most of my contents are Japanese. My English pages consist of this cv page and two of my English papers, Aristotle's Theory of Comedy (PDF and HTML) and The Poetics of Fabula: Mythos and Epeisodion in Aristotle's Poetics (PDF). See below for the links to the papers. In HTML versions, you have to install LaserGreek Fonts to see the Greek letters correctly.

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Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

Associate Professor of Aesthetics, Dept of Aesthetics and History of Arts, Gunma Prefectural Women's University

Education

1982-1987 Doctoral Course in the Department of Aesthetics, Osaka University.
1982 MA in Literature, Osaka University.
1980 BA in Literature, Osaka University.

Professional Experience

1995- Associcate professor of Aesthetics, Gunma Prefectural Women's University.
1992-1995 Full time lecturer of Aesthetics, Gunma Prefectural Women's University.
1987-1992 Research assistant of Aesthetics, Osaka University.
1991-1992 Part time lecturer of Theory of Art, Osaka Metropolitan University.
1988-1992 Part time lecturer of Literature, Osaka Dental University.
1983-1991 Part time lecturer of Literature, Naniwa College.

Publishings

(All in Japanese, unless otherwise indicated. English Translations of the titles are my own.)

Articles in Books

• 1987 "Theories of Beauty and Art before and in Plato," in Transformation of the Beauty, (Sekai Shiso Press)
• 1997 "The Author, the Work and the Reader," in the 7th volume of the Art Theory Forum, (Keiso Press)

Articles in Academic Journals

• 1983 "The Genesis of Greek Tragedy," in Bigaku (Aesthetics), vol. 33.
• 1985 "The examination of Plato's Theory of the Double Imitation," in Philokalia, vol. 2.
• 1985 "Plato's Banishment of Poetry," in Bigaku, vol. 36.
• 1990 "Mikhail Bakhtin and the Poetics of the Novel," in Philokalia, vol. 7.
• 1991 "An Essay on Lucian's True Story " in Epos, vol. 12
• 1994 "The Fifth Book of the Poetics of Philodemus and the Petipatetic Poetics (1)," in the Bulletin of the Gunma Prefectural Women's University, vol. 15.
• 1995 "Imitation and the Menippean Satire," in Philokalia, vol. 12.
• 1996 "The Fifth Book of the Poetics of Philodemus and the Petipatetic Poetics (2)," in the Bulletin of the Gunma Prefectural Women's University, vol. 17.
• 1997 "The Fifth Book of the Poetics of Philodemus and the Petipatetic Poetics (3)," in the Bulletin of the Gunma Prefectural Women's University, vol. 18.
• 1999 "Tragic Character in Aristotle's Poetics, " in the Bulletin of the Gunma Prefectural Women's University, vol. 20.
• 2000 “Classical Studies and Personal Computers,” in the Bulletin of the Gunma Prefectural Women's University, vol. 21.(PDF version)
• 2000 “Greek Tragedy as Performance” in the Bulletin of the Association for the Western Comparative Theatre in Japan.
• 2001 “Aristotle's Theory of Comedy : Its mythos and catharsis,” in Journal of Classical Studies (The Classical Society of Japan), vol. 49.(Japanese Version)
• 2001 “Aristotle's Theory of Comedy :mythos and catharsis, in the Bulletin of the Gunma Prefectural Women's University, vol. 22. (in English) HTML Version, PDF Version
• 2003 The Poetics of Fabula: Aristotle's Theory of Mythos and Epeisodhion, in the Bulletin of the Gunma Prefectural Women's University, vol. 22 (in English) PDF Version