JIU Josai International University
HAGA Koichi
Professor (Comparative Culture Major)
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)
Final academic background/degree
Ph.D. UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles, East Asian Studies)
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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