神子島 健（KAGOSHIMA Takeshi）- 文学・思想史研究者、東京工科大学教養学環教授

神子島健（かごしま・たけし、1978年生まれ）は、日本の文学・思想史研究者。東京工科大学教養学環教授。東京大学大学院総合文化研究科国際社会科学専攻で学び、博士（学術）を取得。東京大学大学院総合文化研究科助教などを経て現職。専門は日本近代文学、日本近代思想史、歴史認識論で、とりわけ戦争文学や植民地主義、加害責任、戦後思想をテーマに研究を行っている。文学作品を歴史認識や社会思想との関わりから読み解く研究で知られ、近年は中国侵略や戦争責任をめぐる文学表象の分析にも取り組んでいる。著書に『戦場へ征く、戦場から還る』『社会のなかの文学』『支配と加害―中国侵略を描いた作家たち』などがある。

Takeshi Kagoshima (born 1978) is a Japanese scholar of modern Japanese literature and intellectual history, and Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at the Tokyo University of Technology. He earned his doctorate from the University of Tokyo after studying in its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on modern Japanese literature, intellectual history, historical memory, and representations of war, colonialism, and responsibility in modern Japan. Widely recognized for examining literary works through the lenses of history and political thought, he has written extensively on war literature, postwar intellectual history, and Japan''s recognition of its wartime past. His notable books include "Going to the Battlefield, Returning from the Battlefield," "Literature in Society," and "Rule and Perpetration: Writers Who Depicted Japan''s Invasion of China."