Maria Telegina
CURRICULUM VITAE
December 2023
Project Assistant Professor
Postal Address:
Tokyo College,
The University of Tokyo,
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku,
Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

E-mail: maria.telegina@mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Website: mariatelegina.net
Twitter: @MariaTelegina

EDUCATION
2020

DPhil in Oriental Studies, Japanese Linguistics
The University of Oxford, Faculty of Oriental Studies
Thesis title: Towards an Understanding of Time and Space inJapanese Language
Thesis Supervisor (s): Prof. Frellesvig B.,
Prof. Frellesvig B. and Dr. Horn S.W. (2014-2015)

2014

M.A. in Language and Society
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Graduate School of Language and Society
Dissertation title: 「日本語世界像における時間と空間概念―間（ま）の概念を中心に―」 (Temporal and Spatial Concepts inJapanese Language World View (based on the example of concept “MA”))
Dissertations Supervisor (s): Prof. Kasuya K.

2009

M.A. in Oriental Studies, Diploma with Distinction
Saint Petersburg State University, Department of Asian and African Studies,Japanese Studies
Dissertation title: Japanese Memoir and Diary Literature of the Beginning of
the XX Century (based on the work of Ishikawa Takuboku ROMAJI NIKKI)
Dissertations Supervisor (s): Associate Professor Smirnova N.V.,
Prof. Rybin V.V.

2007

B.A. in Oriental Studies, Diploma with Distinction
Saint Petersburg State University, Department of Asian and African Studies,Japanese Studies
Dissertation title: Japanese Memoir and Diary Literature of XVII-XIX
Centuries (based on the works of Matsuo Basho and Kobayashi Issa).
Dissertations Supervisor (s): Associate Professor Smirnova N.V.

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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2022

Project Assistant Professor,
Tokyo College, Tokyo University

2020

Postdoctoral Fellow,
Tokyo College, Tokyo University

2019

Project Assistant Professor,
Center for International Education,
Institute for Promoting International Partnerships, Kobe University
PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles「ロシア語における情報標示の諸要素 」宮内 拓也 , 後藤 雄介 ,テレギナ マリア, 東京外国語大学語学研究所『語学研究所論集』第22 号 (2017), pp.75-86 (Some markers of information structure in Russian,Takuya Miyauchi, Yusuke Goto, Maria Telegina, Tokyo University of Foreign
Studies, Journal of the Institute of Language Research No.22 (2017), pp.7586)

2017

Book Chapters
2024

Language as a Tool to Construct Identities: A Sociolinguistic Perspective.
(forthcoming). Why Does Identity Matter? Edited by M. Haneda and N.
Hosokawa

2019

Network Analysis Approach to Temporal and Spatial Domains of Japanese
Mental Lexicon. In Words: Description, Measurement and Pedagogy, editedby A. Tsedryk and C. Doe, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Manuscripts in preparation
Books
2025

Time and Space in Contemporary Japanese
Articles

2025
2024
2024
2024

Identity and Gender Asymmetry in Japanese Mental Lexicon
間の意味とは？―現代日本語における間の表現の認知言語学的考察
Digital Approaches to Mental Lexicon and Language Learning: Bilingual
Language Learning Environment SWOW-APP
Typology of Temporal Description in Japanese (under review at Cognitive
Linguistics)
INVITED TALKS

2022

Spatial Description Perspectives in Contemporary JapaneseMaria Telegina, CV

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Nissan Seminar, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford,
Feburary 17
2021

Time and Space in Japanese: Concepts of Mental Lexicon and Strategies of
Description
2021-21 TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum,
University of Tokyo
March 122017

Toward Understanding Time and Space Concepts in Modern JapaneseInternational Workshop on Humanities“New Perspectives in Japanese Studies Part 2”,
Kobe University Brussels European Center, Brussels, Belgium, November 19
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Papers Presented
2023

Digital Approaches to Mental Lexicon and Language Learning: Bilingual
Language Learning Environment SWOW-APP
The 17th International Conference of the European Association of JapaneseStudies, Ghent, Belgium, 17-20 August2023

Spatial Concepts and Patterns of Extended Spatial Description inContemporary Japanese
The 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Dusseldorf,
Germany, 7-11 August2023

Gender and Identity in the Japanese Mental Lexicon
The Association for Asian Studies 2023 Annual Conference, Boston, USA(online), 17-18 Feburary

2022

Stories of the mind: investigating mental lexicon though a large-scale
crowdsourcing study of word associations. The Japanese Small World of
Words
The Linguistic Society of New Zealand annual conference, University ofOtago, New Zealand, 8-9 December

2022

The Japanese Small World of Words. Investigating meaning through a large
scale crowdsourcing study of word associations
The Digital Humanities 2022, Tokyo, Japan (online), 25-29 July2022

Towards a Typology of Extended Spatial Description in Japanese
The 9th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistic
Association, Erfurt, Germany (online), 2-5 March

2021

Towards a Typology of Temporal Description Strategies in Contemporary
Japanese
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2020

Temporal Concepts in Japanese through a Free Word Association andSpontaneous Speech Experiments
The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference,
The University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom (online),
7-20 September

2020

Temporal Discourse Strategies in Contemporary Japanese
The 7th UK Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference,
The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (online), 27-29 July

2017

Experimental Approach to Semantics of
Spatial Description in Modern Japanese
The 15th International Conference of the European Association forJapanese Studies, Lisbon, Portugal, 30 August – 2 September

2016

Experimental Approach to Time and Space Concepts ofJapanese Language World View
PARLAY 2016, University of York, United Kingdom, September 2

2016

Associative Network Visualization and Analysis as a Tool for
Understanding Time and Space Concepts in JapaneseJapanese Association for Digital Humanities:
Digital Scholarship in History and the Humanities Conference,
Tokyo University, Japan, September 12 - 14

2016

Building and Analyzing a Semantic Network
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2016
University of Oxford, United Kingdom, July 4-8

2016

Cognitive Approach to Lexicography on the Basis of Japanese
Temporal and Spatial Lexicon
The 6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Bangor University, United
Kingdom, July 18 – 22

Organized Panels
2023

Language and Identity across Borders: Translanguaging in Gender, Media, andBeyondThe Association for Asian Studies 2023 Annual Conference, Boston, USA(online), 17-18 Feburary

DEPARTMENTAL TALKS

2020#Corona on TwitterTokyo College Workshop: “The Corona Crisis in Cultural Contexts: Identity,
Language, History”, Tokyo College, University of Tokyo,
June 16
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2020

Towards an Understanding of Time and Space in Japanese Language
Miyao Group Seminar, Department of Information Science,
Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo,
May 282017

Time and Space Concepts in Modern Japanese through a
Word Association Network Analysis
East Asian Linguistics Seminar, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford,
January 17
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2021 – 2022

Research Grant in the Humanities,
The Mitsubishi Foundation,
University of Tokyo

2021 – 2024

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists,
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science,
University of Tokyo

2020 – 2021

K.Matsushita Foundation Grant
K.Matsushita Foundation, University of Tokyo

2015 – 2018

Sasakawa Scholarship
The Sasakawa Fund, University of Oxford

2017

JFEC Grant
The Japan Foundation Endowment Committee,
University of Oxford/
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2016, 2015

Travel Grant from the Sasakawa FundThe Sasakawa Fund,
University of Oxford/
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2016, 2015

Hertford College Oxford Graduate Travel Grant
Hertford College,
University of Oxford/
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2016

The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation,
University of Oxford/
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2015

BAJS Studentship
British Association for Japanese Studies, University of Oxford

2015

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015 Bursary
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University of Oxford
2015

Storry Memorial Travelling Bursary
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies,
University of Oxford

2011 – 2014

Research Student Scholarship
MONBUKAGAKUSHO: MEXT,
Hitotsubashi University

2005 – 2006

Scholarship for Short-term Study in JapanJASSO Student Exchange Support Program,
Saint Petersburg State University/ Hosei University
FELLOWSHIPS

2023

Academic Visitor,
Nissan Institute, University of Oxford, UK

2017

Special Joint Research Fellow
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo
Spontaneous Speech Experiment on
Temporal Description Strategies in Japanese

2016

Special Joint Research Fellow
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo
Spontaneous Speech Experiment on Spatial Description Strategies in Japanese

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2021 –

Principal Investigator
Tokyo College, University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan「日本語連想ネットワークと言語学習アプリケーション日本語版スモール・ワールド・オブ・ワード SWOW-JP- 」(Japanese word association network and language learning
application. Japanese version of Small World of Words)

2021 –

Principal Investigator
Tokyo College, University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan
Time and Space in Contemporary Japanese through Comparative Investigationof Japanese and English Mental Lexicon Structures and Strategies of Temporaland Spatial Description

2020 –

Collaborator, lead of the Japanese version of the project,Tokyo College, University of Tokyo,
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Tokyo, Japan
言葉のネット Small World of Words https://smallworldofwords.org/jp
This project is a large-scale scientific study that aims to build a mental
dictionary or lexicon in the major languages of the world and make thisinformation widely available.
2020 –

Principal Investigator
Tokyo College, University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan
This project is a citizen science project on semantic relations, investigating
native-speakers’ intuition on connections between word associations, entitled
GO-TO-GO. Why hima (‘free time’) is bad and ushiro (‘back’) is scary?
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/mariatelegina/go-to-go

2016 – 2017

Research Assistant
Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford,
Oxford, United Kingdom
The project “Development of a proposal for an online course in
Digital Methods for Textual Research” was focused on production of thesyllabus, teaching materials, case studies and forms of assessment for thecourse in the broadly understood Digital Humanities field, including digital
approaches in social sciences and wide range of humanities.

2015

Corpus Annotator
Research Centre for Japanese Language and Linguistics,
Faculty of Oriental Studies
Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese (currently the Oxford NINJAL Corpus of
Old Japanese) is a long-term collaborative project aimed to create a digital
corpus of all extant texts from the Old Japanese period.
TEACHING EXPERIENCETokyo University, Project Assistant Professor, Postdoctoral Fellow
Humanity and the Digital 人類とデジタル(Spring 2022/23 online)
Life and Language in the 21st Century ２１世紀の言語と生活(Autumn 2021/22 online)
Linguistics and Society in the Digital Age デジタル時代の言語学と社会 (Autum 2022/23 inperson)Who am I? An introduction to identity studies 私ってだれ？アイデンティティ研究入門 // Who
am I? An introduction to identity studies (Autumn 2022/23, Autumn 2023/24 in person)

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The Earth and Human Society – Interdisciplinary Perspectives 2050 年の地球と人類社会――分野横断的なアプローチを通して(Autumn 2020/21, Autumn 2021/22 online)
Kobe University, Project Assistant Professor
Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics with focus on Japan (Autumn 2019/20)
Introduction to Sociolinguistics with focus on Japan (Autumn 2019/20)
Academic English Literacy (Autumn 2019/20)
Oxford Brookes University, Associate Lecturer in JapaneseJapanese Elementary (Autumn 2018/19)
Japanese Beginners (Spring 2017/18, Spring 2018/19)
Japanese Reading and Writing (Spring 2017/18, Autumn-Spring 2018/19)
University of Oxford, Japanese Tutor
Japanese Intermediate (Autumn 2016/17, Summer 2017/18)
Japanese Advanced (Autumn 2016/17)
Saint Petersburg State University, Japanese Instructor, Associate Lecturer
Japanese Elementary, Japanese Beginners, Japanese Intermediate (Autumn-Spring 2007/08,
Autumn-Spring 2008/09)
Introduction to Japanese Literature (Autumn 2008/09)
Fiction Translation Beginners (Spring 2008/09)
Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Lecturer in Modern JapaneseJapanese Elementary and Japanese Beginners (Autumn - Spring 2006/07)
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Search Committees
Tokyo College, University of Tokyo
21/22 Project Researcher Search Committee
21/22 Post-doctoral Fellow Search Committee
Blogposts

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Everyone is a scientist (2021.08.21), Tokyo College Blog, https://www.tc.utokyo.ac.jp/en/weblog/4658/
Love, coffee and word associations (2020.11.17), Tokyo College Blog, https://www.tc.utokyo.ac.jp/en/weblog/2721/

Outreach Event Participation
Organized&Participated2021-

Online Lecture, Discussion and Workshop Series “Language and Identity”（言語とアイデンティティ）, Tokyo College, Online

2022

In Conversation with the Author of Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?
Katrine Marçal discussing the book with Tokyo College Researchers
19 July 2022, Tokyo College, Online

Participated2023

Rewiring Neural Circuits through Language (Lecture by Prof. Alexandre
POUGET), Commentator, June 16, Tokyo College, Online

2022

心の辞書を作りましょう！連想から見る、あなたと言葉の結びつき(Let’s create mental lexicon! You and words through the prism of
associations), August 20, Mirakan The National Museum of Emerging Scienceand Innovation, Tokyo, Japan2021

シンポジウム・シリーズ「人文社会科学の未来」ー文系・理系という区分の再考 (Symposium Series “The Future of the Humanities and Social
Sciences”: Reconsidering the Division Between “the Humanities” and “theSciences”), July 12, Tokyo College, Online

2021

On meaning in Language (mock lecture), the University of Tokyo Open
Campus for High School Students 2021, July 10, Online

LANGUAGES
Natural:Russian (native speaker)
English, Japanese (fluent)German, Spanish (basic communication skills)
Artificial: R, Python

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