Koichi Haga

HAGA Koichi

Professor (Department of International Culture)

area of expertise: Comparative Literature, Critical Theory (Ecocriticism), Contemporary Japanese Literature

job title

Dean Graduate School of Humanities

Main subjects

Basics of International Culture, Reading English Materials, Comparative Cultural Studies (Comparative Literature)

Research theme/keyword

environment, literature and culture. A comparison of English literature and Japanese literature. climate change. Earthquake.

Final academic background/degree

UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) / Ph.D.

Affiliated academic society

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

Major achievements

"The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post 3.11 Japan" (single author, Lexington Books, 2019), "Post 3.11 Novel Theory: Thoughts of the Anthropocene Against Slow Violence" (single author, Mizusei Publishing Co., Ltd., 2018), and Thinking of Literature from the Environment: A Guidebook to Ecocriticism (co-author, Bensei Publishing, 2014).

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extracurricular activities

Literature and Environment Society Councilor

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