Koichi Haga

Main subjects

Introduction to Comparative Culture, Variable Topics in Culture and Society in Japan.

Research Themes and Keywords

Environment and Literature, Comparison of English Literature and Japanese Literature. climate change. Earthquake.

Final academic background/degree

UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)/PhD

Affiliated academic society

Association for Japanese Literary Studies, Society for Literature and the Environment, Modern Japanese Literature Association, Ecocriticism Research Association, etc.

Major achievements

His works include "The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post 3.11 Japan" (single author, Lexington Books, 2019), "Post 3.11 Novel Theory: Anthropocene Thought Resisting Slow Violence" (single author, Suiseisha, 2018), and "Thinking about Literature from an Environmental Perspective: An Ecocriticism Guidebook" (co-authored, Bensei Publishing, 2014).

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extracurricular activities

Literature and Environment Society Councilor