Larson Michael William

ラーソンマイケルウィリアム | Larson Michael William

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Visiting Assistant Professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://www.mwlarson.com/

Research field (2)： Literature - General , Literature - British/English-languag

Research keywords (3)： Science Fiction Literature , Utopian Literature , Contemporary American Literature

Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：

2020 - 2023 "Utopia" in Contemporary American Literature
2019 - 2023 Creative Writing Education, Literature and Popular Culture in Cold War East Asia

Papers (7)：

Larson, Michael. Accumulating and Realizing the Radical Potential of Catastrophe in Karen Tei Yamashita’s "Through the Arc of the Rain Forest". Utopian Studies. 2021. 32. 3. 494-494
Larson, Michael William. Reading Kenji Miyazawa after 3.11: Region, Utopia, and Modernity. The International Academic Forum (IAFOR). 2021. 103-110
Larson, MW. The Dialectics of March 11: A Decade After the Japan Tsunami". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2021
Larson, Michael. COVID19: What Japan Failed to Learn from Fukushima”. Tokyo Review. 2020
Larson, Michael. Pearl S. Buck, "Pavilion of Women", and Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Feminism. Journal of Jissen English Department. 2019. 71. 29-47

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MISC (8)：

Larson, Michael William. The Vulgar and the Sublime in "The Three Body Problem". Kyoto Journal. 2020. 99. 215-215
Larson, MW. The Mayor of Nowhere. Metropolis Magazine. 2018. 28-31
Larson, MW. The Anxiety of Intimacy of in Hiromi Kawakami’s "The Nakano Thrift Shop". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2017
Larson, MW. The Hills Above, the Sea Below. The Iowa Review. 2017. 47. 2. 99-105
Larson, MW. The Folkloric and the Fantastic: Hiromi Kawakami’s "Record of a Night Too Brief". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2017

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Books (1)：

When the Waves Came
Chin Music Press 2020 ISBN:9781634059817

Lectures and oral presentations (9)：

アーシュラ・K・ル・グィンの『所有せざる人々』における仕事について
(Kanto Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, 2021 Fall Conference 2021)
Reading Kenji Miyazawa after 3.11: Region, Utopia, and Resilience
(The 11th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2021)
Remembering the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami: A Reading and Discussion
(Niseko Green Keynote Presentation 2020)
Dystopia and Utopia: The Anticipatory Consciousness of Despair in Karen Tei Yamashita’s "Through the Arc of the Rain Forest"
(American Literary Society of Japan 2019)
Using Utopian-Centered Instruction to Build Critical Thinking Skills
(Data Science in Collaboration 2019 2019)

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Education (4)：

2014 - 2021 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Graduate) Department of English Creative Writing (PhD)
2013 - 2014 Tohoku University International Research Institute of Disaster Science Graduate Researcher
2010 - 2013 The Ohio State University (Graduate) Department of English Creative Writing (MFA)
2004 - 2008 Dartmouth College Department of English English Literature

Professional career (3)：

PhD (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
MFA (The Ohio State University)
BA (Dartmouth College)

Work history (8)：

2021/03 - 現在 Keio University Faculty of Law Visiting Assistant Professor
2020/04 - 2021/03 Keio University Faculty of Law Special Lecturer (English)
2018/10 - 2021/03 University of Tsukuba Center for Education of Global Communication (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) Assistant Professor
2018/04 - 2020/03 Jissen Women's University Department of English Special Lecturer
2018/04 - 2018/10 Waseda University Faculty of Social Sciences Social Lecturer (English)

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Committee career (2)：

2018/11 - 2021/11 Center for Education of Global Communication Studies in Foreign Language Education Editorial Committee Member
2020/01 - 2021/03 University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Promotion Office Committee Member

Awards (6)：

2020/05 - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English Tinsley-Helton Dissertation Fellowship For completion of a promising dissertation during the fellowship year
2017/05/11 - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English The Wladyslaw Cieszynski Literary Prize Award for best short story by a graduate student
2017/05 - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship
2015/05 - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English The Sheila Roberts Literary Prize
2013/07 - Japan-U.S. Educational Commission Fulbright Graduate Fellowship

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Association Membership(s) (4)：

Association of Writers & Writing Programs , The American Literature Society of Japan , The English Literary Society of Japan , The Modern Language Association of America

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