Robert PRESLAR

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

I am interested in studying adaptations, and the ways that stories are transformed across mediums, time periods, and cultures. I have focused most heavily on movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock and the ways those movies relate to their source materials.

研究概要

My research focuses on Alfred Hitchcock films adapted from novels or short stories. Studying the ways that stories and themes are transformed when a text is made into a film lets us understand how different contexts and mediums affect meaning. 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 source texts. 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. Most recently, I investigated the ways that ideas surrounding Shinto purification may have influenced Hayao Miyazaki's adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle.

主要研究業績等

• Robert Preslar(2025) Practices of Purification in Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle 『文藝と思想』第90号（福岡女子大学国際文理学部）
• 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

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学会発表

• Robert Preslar(2024) "Vertigo as Adaptation: Uncanny Desires and Narratives of the Past" Alfred Hitchcock 2: Math, Madness, and Mimesis, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) 2025 Conference, 21 February 2025, Marriott, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
• 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

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関連専門分野

Adaptation Studies, Film Studies, American Literature, Alfred Hitchcock

担当講義科目

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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.

関連領域

• 文化?歴史
• 社会システム
• 外国語教育
• 日本語教育
• 国際交流

　

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.