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Larson Michael William
- Affiliation
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Official title
- Assistant Professor
- Sex
- Male
- Birth date
- 1985-10
- KAKEN ID
- 10840184
- URL
- Phone
- 0298-53-2488
- Other affiliation
Center for Education of Global Communication - Research fields
Literature in English Literature in general - Research keywords
Contemporary American Literature Utopian Literature Science Fiction Literature - Research projects
アメリカン・現代期の文学作品におけるユートピア 2020 -- 2022 LARSON MICHAEL WILLIAM Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 2,210,000Yen - Career history
2008-07 -- 2010-06 Japanese Exchange & Teaching Programme Mustu City Board of Education Assistant Language Teacher 2010-09 -- 2013-05 The Ohio State University Department of English Graduate Teaching Associate 2014-07 -- 2016-06 Waukesha Community Arts Project Creative Writing Instructor 2017-04 -- 2018-10 Tama Art University Department of General Education Special Lecturer (English) 2018-04 -- 2018-10 Waseda University Faculty of Social Sciences Social Lecturer (English) 2018-04 -- 2020-03 Jissen Women's University Department of English Special Lecturer 2018-10 -- (current) University of Tsukuba Center for Education of Global Communication Assistant Professor - Academic background
2004-09 -- 2008-06 Dartmouth College Department of English Creative Writing Graduated 2010-09 -- 2013-05 The Ohio State University Department of English Creative Writing Graduated 2014-09 -- (?) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of English Creative Writing Other - Degree
2013-05 Master's of Fine Arts The Ohio State University - Licenses and qualifications
2011-07 Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 - Academic societies
2017-09 -- (current) The Modern Language Association of America 2017-05 -- (current) The English Literary Society of Japan 2017-05 -- (current) The American Literature Society of Japan 2010-09 -- (current) Association of Writers & Writing Programs - Honors & Awards
2020-05 Tinsley-Helton Dissertation Fellowship For completion of a promising dissertation during the fellowship year 2015-05-08 The Sheila Roberts Literary Prize Award for best work of nonfiction by a graduate student 2017-05-11 The Wladyslaw Cieszynski Literary Prize Award for best short story by a graduate student 2018-05-31 Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship To work on my dissertation 2013-07-01 Fulbright Graduate Fellowship To write a nonfiction book about the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Disaster 2012-05-02 Alumni Grant for Graduate Research & Scholarship To do research on the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami - Refereed academic journal/Refereed international conference paper
- Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women, and Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Feminism
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Journal of Jissen English Department/(71)/pp.29-47, 2019-03
- Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women, and Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Feminism
- Other articles
- The Mayor of Nowhere
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Metropolis/pp.28-31, 2018-10 - Jameson's Affective Turn: Bodily States, Temporality, and Aesthetics after Modernity
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Poetics Today/pp.751-761, 2017-12 - The Anxiety of Intimacy of in Hiromi Kawakami’s ‘The Nakano Thrift Shop'
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Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017-11 - The Hills Above, the Sea Below
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The Iowa Review/pp.99-105, 2017-09 - The Folkloric and the Fantastic: Hiromi Kawakami’s ‘Record of a Night Too Brief’
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Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017-07 - The Rancher Who Refused to Leave: A Fukushima Story
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Catapult, 2017-06 - The Sad March of the Japanese Left
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Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017-05 - Of God and Water
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Portland Review/61(2)/pp.79-112, 2015-02 - A Colossal Swell
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Ninth Letter/11(2)/pp.12-18, 2015-01
- The Mayor of Nowhere
- Books
- When the Waves Came
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Chin Music Press, 2020-05
- When the Waves Came
- Conference, etc.
- Remembering the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami: A Reading and Discussion
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Niseko Green Keynote Presentation/2020-02-29--2020-02-29 - Dystopia and Utopia: The Anticipatory Consciousness of Despair in Karen Tei Yamashita’s "Through the Arc of the Rain Forest"
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American Literary Society of Japan/2019-10-05--2019-10-05 - Fulbright Grants in Creative Writing
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The Association of Writers & Writing Programs/2016-03-31--2016-04-03 - The Hills Above, the Sea Below
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Performance Studies International 2015 Tohoku/2015-08-28--2015-09-01 - Loss and Remembrance: An Investigation of Mourning in Japan
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The Asia Studies Conference, Japan/2014-06-21--2014-06-22 - Post-Disaster Research in Otsuchi Town
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Japan Studies at Dartmouth College/2013-11-08--2013-11-09
- Remembering the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami: A Reading and Discussion
- Teaching
2020-10 -- 2021-02 English Writing II University of Tsukuba. 2020-04 -- 2020-08 English Reading Skills I University of Tsukuba. 2020-10 -- 2021-02 English Presentation Skills II University of Tsukuba. 2020-04 -- 2020-08 English Writing II University of Tsukuba. 2020-10 -- 2021-02 English Reading Skills II University of Tsukuba. 2020-04 -- 2020-08 English Presentation Skills I University of Tsukuba. 2020-10 -- 2020-12 English Writing I University of Tsukuba. 2019-04 -- 2019-08 English Writing II University of Tsukuba. 2019-10 -- 2020-02 English Presentation II University of Tsukuba. 2019-10 -- 2020-02 English Writing II University of Tsukuba. - Professional activities
2018-11 -- 2021-11 Center for Education of Global Communication Studies in Foreign Language Education Editorial Committee - Message
- M.W. Larson is a Ph.D. candidate in English, with a concentration in creative writing, at the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin. From 2013-2014 he was the recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant, and used this funding to research a series of essays on the survivors of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. He received his MFA from the Department of English at The Ohio State University in 2013 and his BA from Dartmouth College in 2008. His research interests include modern and postmodern American fiction, affect theory, and utopian literature. His essays and reviews have appeared in "Colorado Review," "Poetics Today," "Los Angeles Review of Books," and ". In 2013, he was awarded a Fulbright grant to research When the Waves Came, a nonfiction manuscript about the experience of the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.
(Last updated: 2020-05-26)