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RUZICKA EDWARD DAVID|Shinshu University Researcher List

RUZICKA EDWARD DAVID

Academic Assembly School of Humanities and Social Sciences Institute of Humanities

Center for General Education 

Associate Professor 

Researcher Information

Degree

  • MA, Cambridge University
  • PhD, Cambridge University

Field Of Study

  • European literature, Modern and Medieval European Literature
Research activity information

Paper

  • Dante and the Devastations of War: “Sanza danno di pecore o di biade” (Purg. XXXIII, 51)
    David Ruzicka
    Le tre corone. Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, 9, 43-75, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Poetry in the English Language Classroom: Experiments in Critical Reading
    David Ruzicka
    Shinshu University Journal of Arts and Sciences, (16), 242-258, 31 Mar. 2022リポジトリ
  • Teaching Academic English in the Age of AI: Notes on What Translation Software Means for University English Education
    David Ruzicka
    Shinshu University Journal of Arts and Sciences, 15, 133–145, 31 Mar. 2021リポジトリ
  • Metaphors of Nutrition in Inferno I: Dante's Veltro and the Philosophical Appetite
    David Ruzicka
    Ex-position, 45, 7-25, 2021
  • Dante's Veltro between History and Interpretation: A Material-Culture Reading of "non ciberà terra né peltro"
    David Ruzicka
    Dante Studies, 138 (2020), 1-25, 2021
  • Poetry and Performance : Prolegomenon to a Reading of Robin Kirkpatrick's A Collection 稻草
    David Ruzicka
    Shinshu University Journal of Arts and Sciences, (12), 182-193, 07 Mar. 2018リポジトリ
  • 'Anything that's mended is but patched' : Fortune and Forbearance in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
    David Ruzicka
    Shinshu University Journal of Arts and Sciences, (11), 231-250, 17 Mar. 2017リポジトリ
  • 'Such shaping fantasies' : Metamorphosis in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
    David Ruzicka
    信州大学人文社会科学研究, 10, 128-140, 14 Mar. 2016リポジトリ
  • ‘“Scegliendo fior da fiore”: Exile, Desire and the Fiorentinità of Dante’s Matelda’
    David Ruzicka
    Le tre corone. Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, 3, 25–56, Jan. 2016
  • 'Thou shalt have the air at freedom' : The Theme of Liberty in Shakespeare's The Tempest
    David Ruzicka
    信州大学人文社会科学研究, 9, 13-28, 28 Mar. 2015リポジトリ
  • ‘Florence and the Gran Contessa: An Historicist Reading of Dante’s Matelda’
    David Ruzicka
    Dante Studies. The Annual Journal of the Dante Society of America, 132 (2014), 35-57, 2015
  • Extensive Reading Research in a Japanese University: Some Thoughts on Culture and Ideology
    David Ruzicka
    Current Trends and Prospects of Communicative Language Teaching in the EFL Context. 2014 ETAK International Conference, 65-69, Jun. 2014
  • Uno lume apparente di fuori secondo sta dentro”: The Expressive Body in Dante’s Commedia
    David Ruzicka
    The Italianist, 34(1), 1-22, Jan. 2014
  • Developing institutional relationships through ER
    David Ruzicka and Mark Brierley
    The 2011 JALT Pan-SIG Conference Proceedings, 220–234, Jun. 2012
  • “Sì ch’a nulla, fendendo, facea male”: Dante’s Griffin and Florentine Civic Ritual (Purgatorio 29. 109–11)
    David Ruzicka
    Dante Studies, 130, 1-45, 2012
  • Teachers' Beliefs about Language Learning
    Brierley, Mark; Mehmet, Sean; Ruzicka, David
    信州大学人文社会科学研究, 5, 79-94, 2011リポジトリ
  • The measurement problem in Extensive Reading
    Mark Brierley, David Ruzicka, Hiroki Sato&Tomonori Wakasugi
    The Language Teacher, 34(5), 11–12, Sep. 2010
  • The measurement problem in Extensive Reading
    David Ruzicka, Mark Brierley, Hiroki Sato & Tomonori Wakasugi
    JALT2009 Conference Proceedings, 641–650, 20 Aug. 2010
  • Selling ER: Investigating Factors in Classroom Management that Affect Reading Performance
    David Ruzicka, Mark Brierley
    信州大学人文社会科学研究会 / Shinshu University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2, 223-238, Apr. 2008リポジトリ
  • The Representation of the Human Body in Dante’s Commedia
    David Ruzicka
    The Human Person and Nature in Medieval Literature, Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Fu Jen Medieval Conference, Taipei, 21–22 March, 2006, 23–42, Feb. 2008
  • Extensive Reading in Shinshu University: Rationale, Management and Motivation
    David Ruzicka, Mark Brierley
    高等教育システムセンター紀要 / Shinshu University Journal of Educational Research, 2, 3-26, Mar. 2006
  • The Peer Review Project: A Class in English Composition and a Class in Linguistics Taught in English
    Junko Nishigaki, David Ruzicka and Miki Hanazaki
    Journal of Educational Research, Shinshu University /「教育システム研究開発センター紀要」, (9), 97-104, 28 Mar. 2003
  • Bread for the People: Dante’s Didactic Aims in the Convivio and the Commedia
    David Ruzicka
    Journal of Educational Research, Shinshu University /「教育システム研究開発センター紀要」, (8), 151–161, 29 Mar. 2002
  • Seamus Heaney and Dante: The Making of a Poet
    David Ruzicka
    Journal of Educational Research, Shinshu University / 教育システム研究開発センター紀要, (2), 137-151, 28 Mar. 1997
  • Dante’s Teacher without a Shadow: The Figure of Virgil in the Commedia and the Efficacy of Poetry
    David Ruzicka
    Journal of Educational Research, Shinshu University / 「教育システム研究開発センター紀要、第1号」, (1), 69-110, 28 Mar. 1996

MISC

  • Review of Dante and the Human Body, ed. by Barnes and Petrie (Four Courts, 2008)
    David Ruzicka
    Italian Studies, 64(2), 315–317, 2009
  • Review of Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture, by Manuele Gragnolati (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)
    David Ruzicka
    Modern Language Review, 102(1), 249-251, Jan. 2007
  • Review of Dante and the Human Body, ed. by Barnes and Petrie (Four Courts, 2008)
    David Ruzicka
    Modern Language Review, 101(2), 552-553, Jan. 2006
  • Review of Dante and the Franciscans: Poverty and Papacy in the ‘Commedia’, by Nick Havely (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
    David Ruzicka
    Italian Studies, 61(2), 277-279, 2006

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • ‘Bodies, Space and Narrative in Dante’s Commedia’
    David Ruzicka
    2022 Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS) International Conference: Engaging the Audience: From Antiquity to the Renaissance, 21 Oct. 2022
  • ‘“Quod modo et aliter intellegi possit”: Dante’s Rhetorical Strategies of Ambiguity between Love and Politics’
    David Ruzicka
    Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS) Annual Conference 2022, 03 Jun. 2022
  • ‘Journeys and Pilgrimage in Dante’
    David Ruzicka
    2021 Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS) International Conference: Cultures of Travel: Tourism, Pilgrimage, Migration, 22 Oct. 2021
  • ‘La scoperta ricorrente del veltro-carta. L’uso della storia, sovrainterpretazione e le lusinghe di un Dante radicale (Inf. I, 105)’
    David Ruzicka
    3rd International Dante Conference, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Metaphors of Nutrition in Inferno I: Dante’s Veltro and the Philosophical Appetite
    David Ruzicka
    2020 TACMRS International Conference, 23 Oct. 2020, Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)
  • ‘“Sanza danno di pecore o biade” (Purg. XXXIII, 51). L’enigma forte tra intertestualità e storia della guerra’
    David Ruzicka
    2nd International Dante Congress, 30 May 2019, University of Bologna, Ravenna
  • ‘Dante’s Veltro Between Archaeology and Material Culture’
    David Ruzicka
    1st International Dante Congress, 26 May 2017, University of Bologna, Ravenna
  • ‘Florence, Justice and the Topography of Dante’s Earthly Paradise’
    David Ruzicka
    ACIS [Australasian Centre for Italian Studies] 8th Biennial Conference, 02 Jul. 2015, ACIS [Australasian Centre for Italian Studies]
  • The Representation of the Human Body in Dante’s Commedia
    David Ruzicka
    7th Annual Fu Jen Medieval Conference, Taipei, 21–22 March, 2006, 21 Mar. 2006

Research Themes

  • Dante and theology
  • Dante and English poetry
  • Language acquisition and extensive reading