Name
MATSUO, Risa
Degree
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Culture
HP (URL)
https://www.fmsh.fr/en/researchers/risa-matsuo
Status
Assistant Professor
Research Topic
The Intersection of Chopin, Sand, Mickiewicz, and La Mennais: A Comparative Study of Literature, Music, and Ideology in Poland and France in the 1830/40s.
This study examines the Fantaisies that Fryderyk Chopin wrote intensively in the 1840s through a comparative analysis with the works of two artists who were close to him －the French novelist George Sand and the Lithuanian-Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz. By unraveling the ideas they shared across nationalities, genders, languages, and artistic genres, it will lead to consideration of various issues in the modern world (international conflicts, emigration, religious issues, etc.).
Education and Academic Employment
Education
| 2018 | Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Culture, University of Tokyo |
| 2010-2013 | Overseas Student in the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw |
| 2010 | M.A. in Comparative Literature and Culture, University of Tokyo |
| 2008 | B.A. in Aesthetics, Keio University |
Academic Employment
| 2022-2024.3 | JSPS Overseas Research Fellow (Centre d’Études et de Recherches Comparatistes (CERC), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) |
| 2022 | Part-Time Lecturer (Comparative Arts / Polish language), Toyo University |
| 2020 | Part-Time Lecturer (Musicology), Hitotsubashi University Graduate School |
| 2018-2021 | JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University) |
| 2018 | Part-Time Lecturer (Music and Arts), Musashino University |
| 2010-2013 | JSPS DC1 Fellow (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture, University of Tokyo) |
Fields of Research Interests
Chopin, Sand, Mickiewicz, fantaisie, Polish literature, French literature, Great Emigration, literature and music
Academic Publications
[Books]
- Risa Matsuo, Chopin no Shigaku (Chopin’s Poetics – From Literary Ballade to Piano Ballade), Misuzu Shobo, Ltd., 2019.
[Selection of Articles]
- Risa Matsuo, “Fantaisie” by Fryderyk Chopin: A Study on the Relationship with French and Polish Literary Works,” Research Report of Tokyo Section, Japan Comparative Literature Association, no. 20, 2023.【To be published in March 2024】
- Risa Matsuo, “Aspekty dramatyzacji w balladach Fryderyka Chopina w odniesieniu do form romantycznej ballady literackiej,” Litteraria Copernicana, vol. 43, no. 3, 2022, pp. 149-163.
- Risa Matsuo, “Paroles et musique pour Lutosławski : article illustré par des poèmes de Iłłakowiczówna,” Slavia Iaponica = Studies in Slavic languages and literatures, vol. 24, 2021, pp. 77-103.
- Risa Matsuo, “Z gór, gdzie dźwigali: Chopin’s Song Interpreted by the Poem of Krasiński,” Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan, vol. 61, no. 1, 2015, pp. 16-34.
Other Interests
Steelband from Trinidad and Tobago
Affiliated Academic Organizations
Musicological Society of Japan (MSJ)
Japan Comparative Literature Association (JCLA)
International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA – AILC)
Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures (JSSSLL)
Awards
November 2020: The 25th Japan Comparative Literature Association Award
June 2020: 2018-19 Encouragement award of the Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures
October 1999: 2nd Prize of the 53th Student Music Concours of Japan (Piano Category in Fukuoka)
