Koichi Haga

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 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