JIU Josai International University
Koichi Haga
HAGA Koichi
Professor (Department of International Culture)
area of expertise: Environmental literature in Japan and the English-speaking world, ecocriticism (environmental humanities), international Japanese studies
job title
Dean Graduate School of Humanities
Main subjects
Basics of international culture, reading English-language materials, comparative cultural Research (comparative literature)
Research Themes and Keywords
Environment and literature, comparison of English and Japanese literature, climate change, earthquake disasters
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 publications include The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post 3.11 Japan (solo author, Lexington Books, 2019), Post 3.11 Novel Theory: Thoughts on the Anthropocene Against Slow Violence (solo author, Suiseisha, 2018), and Thinking Literature from the Environment: A Guidebook to Ecocriticism (co-author, Bensei Publishing, 2014).
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extracurricular activities
Literature and Environment Society Councilor