<Books>
The Bakhtinian Concept of Chronotope and Toni Morrison’s Novels. Tokyo: Eihosha, 2009. 1-177.
<Chapters>
“Race, Class, and Culture in Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father.” Barack Obama’s Dremas From My Father—A Memoir about Race and America. Tokyo: Eiho P, 2011. 156-174.
“‘Republican Motherhood’ and the Politics of Motherhood—Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Mercy.” Transcending Time and Change—American Literature and Utopia.Tokyo: Eiho P, 2011. 156-172.
“Little Red Riding Hood and Fairy Tales—Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Carter’s Wolf Series.” English Literature and Folklore—Songs, Festivals, and Narrative. Tokyo: Nannundo Phenix P, 2008. 198-211.
“Black Women and Religion in Toni Morrison’s Novels.” Hurston, Walker, and Morrison—African American Women’s Literary Tradition. Nannundo Phenix P, 2007. 106-119.
Black Studies Handy Dictionary. Ed. Noboru Matsumoto. Tokyo: Nannundo P, 2006.
“African American Literature—From Harlem Renaissance to the Present.” Literary Guide to Twentieth Century American Literature. Kyoto: Sekai Shisou P., 2006. 98-111.
“From Bondage to Liberation: Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother.” Wind from the Caribbean: English Literature and its Periphery. Tokyo: Takashobou-Yumi Press, 2004. 211-223.
“Body as ‘Templates’: Transfiguration of Subjectivity in Paradise.” Body, Gender, Ethnicity: Subjectivity in American Literature at the Turn of the 21st Century. Kamogawa Takahiro and Ito Sadamoto Ed. Tokyo: Eiho P, 2003. 241-260.
<Papers>
“Attending to ‘Silence’ in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan.” Gengo to Hyogen (Journal of Language and Expression). No. 11, 2014. 1-11.
“The Story of Cleo’s Non-growth: Dorothy West’s Living Is Easy.” Journal of the Society of English and American Literture. No 57 130-143. 2013.
“”The Japanese Motherhood Myth and Its Effects on Women and Family in Contemporary Japan” Sugiyama Jogakuen University Journal. No 43 59-68. 2012.
“Images of Queen Bee/Ant/Termite and Female ‘Selfhood’: Sylvia Plath, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.” Gengo to Hyogen (Journal of Language and Expression). No. 5, 2009. 11-24.
“Motherhood Discourse and Literary Studies on Motherhood.” Sugiyama Jogakuen University Journal. 39, 2008. 1-12.
“Lesbian Continuum in Toni Morrison’s Love.” Journal of Black Studies 75, 2006. 23-28.
“Rewriting Bertha as Antoinette/Tia: Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea.” Journal of the Society of English and American Literature. Kwansei Gakuin University Vol. XLVII, Nos. 1/2 march 2003 Ser. Nos. 66/67. 188-204.
“Transgression or Transcendence?: Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig.” Journal of the Society of English and American Literature. Kwansei Gakuin University Vol. XLVI No2 March 2002. 149-163.
“Mother and Daughter in Comic Realism: Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.” JIMBUN RONKYU: Humanities Review. Vol. LI No.4 February 2002. 174-188.
“Is Beloved a Fantasy?” Journal of the Society of English and American Literature. Kwansei Gakuin University Vol. XLV, No 2 March 2001 Ser. No.63. 80-95.
“The Structure of Polychronotope in Toni Morrison’s Sula.” Kobe College Studies Vol. XLVII No.3 (No. 139) March 2001. 173-185.
“Mythologizing the ‘Self’: Audre Lorde’s Zami and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.” Journal of the Society of English and American Literature. Kwansei Gakuin University Vol. XLV, No 1 December 2000. 45-61.
“Are Chronotopes Gendered?: Toni Morrison’s Fiction.” Kansai American Literature Vol 37 2000. 5-21.
“Gendered narrator and Its Role: Toni Morrison’s Jazz.” Journal of the Society of English and American Literature. Kwansei Gakuin University Vol. XLIV No2 March2000. 118-131.
“The Inverted World in Toni Morrison’s Sula.” Journal of the Society of English and American Literature. Kwansei Gakuin University Vol. XLIII No 1 February 1999. 195-206.
“Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: The Narrative Structure that Breaks the Silence.” JIMBUN RONKYU: Humanities Review. Kwansei Gakuin University Vol. XLVII, No 4 February 1998. 156-168.
“Resonance of the ‘Unvoiced’ in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Journal of the Society of English and American Literature. Kwansei Gakuin University Vol. XLV, No 2 March 2001 Ser. No.63. 80-95.
