Rate My Professor Satoko Tokunaga

Satoko Tokunaga is Professor in the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, where she also serves in the Graduate School of Letters in the field of English and American Literature. She earned a Bachelor’s degree from Keio University’s Faculty of Letters in English in 1997, a Master’s degree in literature from Keio University in 1999, an M.Phil. in English from the University of Birmingham in 2001, and a Ph.D. in literature from Keio University in 2005. Her academic appointments at Keio University include Associate Professor beginning in 2014 and subsequent promotion to Professor. She has held visiting positions including Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (2010–2011) and Visiting Scholar in the Department of English there (2010–2012), as well as a short-term Visiting Fellow at the Huntington Library in 2012.

Tokunaga’s research focuses on medieval English literature, incunabula studies, the history of the book, and bibliography, approached from comparative and transcultural perspectives. She is co-editor of the critical edition of Caxton’s Golden Legend, published by the Early English Text Society and Oxford University Press in 2020 and 2021, and co-editor of Production and Provenance: Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula, published by Brill in 2025. Additional publications include contributions to The Chaucer Encyclopedia (2023) and chapters on topics such as Le Morte Darthur in fifteenth-century European book history. She is Co-Director of Keio University’s X Dignity Center, an interdisciplinary initiative examining dignity in the age of AI, and her current work explores historical modes of reading and interpretation in relation to contemporary issues of information and technology. She has also contributed to symposia and databases on early English printed books and their reception in Japan.

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