Arimitsu, Michio

写真a

Affiliation

Faculty of Law (Hiyoshi)

Position

Professor
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  • My interests include the transnational diffusions of literary and cultural capital (multi-directional flows that traverse Africa, Asia and North America since the dawn of modernity), critical race theory, gender studies, ethnic studies, postcolonialism, comparative histories of the Asian and African diaspora, and the politics and poetics of translation. My PhD dissertation, "Black Notes on Asia: Composite Figurations of Asia in the African American Transcultural Imagination, 1923-2013," sheds new light on the hitherto neglected engagements of African American writers and thinkers with various literary, cultural, and artistic traditions of Asia in general and on African American poets adaptations of haiku in particular.

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Career 【 Display / hide 】

  • 2022.04
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    Present

    Keio University, Department of Law and Political Science, Full Professor

  • 2016.04
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    2022.03

    Keio University, Department of Law and Political Science, Associate Professor

  • 2017
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    2018

    Columbia University, Institute for Research in Af-Am Studies, Visiting scholar

  • 2016.06
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    2017.06

    Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand), Department of Dramatic Arts, Visiting Researcher

  • 2013.04
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    2016.03

    Keio University, Department of Law and Political Science, Lecturer

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Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

  • 2006
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    2014

    Harvard, African & African American Studies, Literature(s) in English

    United States, Graduate School, Completed, Doctoral course

  • 2006
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    2010

    Harvard, English

    United States, Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 2003
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    2005

    Keio University, English Language and Literature, English and American Literature

    Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 2000
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    2001

    U of British Columbia, English, English/American literature

    Canada, University, Other

  • 1998
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    2002

    Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Language, English

    University, Graduated

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Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

  • PhD, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Coursework, 2014.03

    Black Notes on Asia: Composite Figurations of Asia in the African American Transcultural Imagination, 1923-2013.

  • MA, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Coursework, 2010.06

  • Keio University, Keio University, Coursework, 2005.03

    “The Weight of Complex Physicality: Pleasure, Pain, and Pugilism in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.”

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Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / English literature and literature in the English language

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Gender studies

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Area studies (Area Studies)

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Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

  • Cultural Cold War

  • Cosmopolitanism

  • Transnationalism

  • Critical Race Theory

  • Comparative Literature

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Books 【 Display / hide 】

  • American Presidents as Men of Letters

    Michio Arimitsu, Nanundo, 2023.07,  Page： 537

    Scope: "Beyond Camelot: JFK and American Literature during the Cold War",  Contact page： 385-402

  • Extraterritorial, Deconstructive, Trans-hemispheric : Humanities Unbound in the 21st Century

    巽孝之監修、下河辺美知子、越智博美、後藤和彦、原田範行編著, 小鳥遊書房, 2021.10,  Page： 545

    Scope: 15) 「Werner Sollors ヴァーナー・ソラーズ（1943〜 ）：人種・エスニシティ・言語的多様性に注目したキャノンの再構築」,  Contact page： 492-95

  • Global Ralph Ellison Aesthetics and Politics Beyond US Borders

    Michio Arimitsu and Raphaël Lambert, Peter Lang, 2021.09,  Page： 316

    Scope: Ralph Ellison and African American Literature in Post-World War II Japan: Making Blackness Visible,  Contact page： 259−92

  • Harlem Renaissance: Cultural and Social Critiques by the New Negroes

    Yukiko Fukase, Nahoko Tsuneyama, Kotaro Nakagaki, eds., Akashi Shoten, 2021.08,  Page： 610

    Scope: "Renaissance, Both Imaginary and Real: Towards a Reevaluation of the New Negroes' Cultural, Artistic, and Social Movements,  Contact page： 29−48

  • Contemporary Thought: Special Issue on Black Lives Matter

    酒井直樹、西谷修、新田啓子 他, 青土社, 2020.09,  Page： 326

    Scope: The Fire This Time: The Diversification of Blackness and African American Literature in the Age of the Black Lives Matter Movement,  Contact page： 218−28

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Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

  • Echoes and Variations: Teju Cole's Rhetorical Engagements with Jame Baldwin's Legacy

    有光道生

    The American Literature Society of Japan (Chukyo University) , 

    2024.10
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    Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), 日本アメリカ文学会

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    2014年８月２日，ナイジェリア系アメリカ人の現代作家で写真家でもあるTeju Cole は、スイスのロイカーバートを訪れている。James Baldwin が生きていれば彼の90回目の誕生日となっていたであろう日に，古代ローマ時代に開拓されいまやヨーロッパ屈指のスパ・リゾートとして発展したこの保養地へとColeが足を運んだ理由は， 他ならぬ Baldwin の足跡を辿るためだった。Baldwin は，1948年に人種差別に嫌気がさしてアメリカを去ったが，フランスのパリでも貧困，痛飲，執筆のストレスで心身ともに疲弊していた。そのため，1951年の夏にスイス人の恋人 Lucien Happersberger の誘いもあって， アルプスの山々に囲まれたローヌ川沿いのこの温泉地に逗留することになったのだ。Baldwin が，彼以前には黒人が誰一人も来訪したことのなかった同地に，その年の冬，そして翌年の冬にも滞在し，初めての小説 Go Tell It on the Mountain（1953）を完成させたことはよく知られている通りだ。Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts は，Baldwin が微視的に細部の描写をした後に，その細部にフォーカスを当て続けながらも，突如ズームアウトして，巨視的に歴史や文化の議論に接続するレトリカルな身振りを， （有名スポーツ選手の名前にちなんで彼らの得意技が名付けられるように） 「ジミー」 （Harlem is Nowhere 106）と呼んだが，Baldwin がロイカーバートでの体験について Harper’s Magazine 誌 上 に 寄 稿 し た エ ッ セ イ“Stranger in the Village” （1953） も 「ジミー」 が鮮やかに実践されている初期のテクストだといえよう。本発表では， 「ジミー」 を意識的に継承しながらも， ポスト公民権運動時代の申し子である自分とジムクロウの真っ只中を生きざるを得なかった先輩作家との心理的，そ し て 文 化 的 距 離 を 鋭 く 言 語 化 し た エ ッ セ イ“Black Body”（2014） を中心に， Cole の小説やノンフィクション作品の一部も精読することで，この現代作家が Baldwin の文学や政治思想のどこに共鳴し，どこに反発し，彼のレガシーをどのように変奏・発展させようとしているのかを探究する。

  • “‘Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?’ ―　Ralph Ellison’s Visit to Japan and the Emergence of Alternative Classics of African American Literature in Cold War Japan

    Michio Arimitsu

    Print Culture and Cultural Diplomacy (Senshu University) , 

    2024.03
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    Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), 科研費基盤研究(B)グローバル冷戦下の米文学・文化研究―文化の相互変容プロセスの実証/理論的国際研究 (代表：越智博美）

  • International Committee Talkshop. "Worlding of Blackness: A Global Dialogue.”

    Michio Arimitsu (Keio), Selina Lai-Henderson (Duke Kunshan), J. Lorand Matory (Duke), Yunxiang Gao (Ryerson), jackï job (U of Cape Town), Raphaël Lambert (Kansai), Jang Wook (U of Washington),

    American Studies Association, Annual Meeting (New Orleans, US) , 

    2022.11
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    Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), International Committee of the ASA

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    In light of this year’s ASA call to activate the “multisensory, multiregister engagement” with our world—both lived and imagined—this International Committee panel brings together scholars from around the world whose work engages the multifaceted shades, sounds, aesthetics, and forms of blackness in the transnational contexts of racial crossings and reimagining. Our workshop is to be a rich amalgam of interdisciplinarity spanning cultural anthropology, literary criticism, music studies, art history and dance studies, as it explores the complexity of transracial solidarities across and within continents, oceans and islands. What happens when blackness travels across state-borders and natural boundaries in its variegated shapes and forms? What possible expressions, articulations, acts of (mis)translations and reappropriation do black mobility and resistance inspire in challenging nation-bound formation of race, class, ethnicity, gender and sexuality around the world? What compelling and competing visions do transracial solidarities necessitate? In navigating the nuances of interracial dynamics in the transnational terrain, the panel hopes to invigorate a global dialogue on both the optimisms and challenges of transracial solidarities in different historical and political junctures.

  • Translating Blackness―A Brief History of African American Literature in Post-WWII Japan

    Michio Arimitsu

    2022.02
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    Oral presentation (invited, special), Freedom Lab at Duke Kunshan University

  • African American Literature as World Literature: Continentalism, Archipelagic American Studies, and the Big Sea of African American Literature

    有光道生、吉田恭子、都甲幸治、温又柔

    The Tokyo American Literature Society (慶應義塾大学三田キャンパス) , 

    2021.12
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    Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), 日本アメリカ文学会東京支部

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Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

  • Studies on American culture and literature in the context of global Cold War: an international research project on transformation after 1955

    2024.04
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    2028.03

    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), No Setting

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    本研究は、バンドン会議（アジア・アフリカ会議）、ジュネーブ会議の行われた1955年を境に、「第三世界」と呼ばれるようになった地域が参画することによって冷戦期における米国主導のグローバルな文化外交政策が経験した変容を、環太平洋、環大西洋、その他地域を相互に横断する地政学的な変動との関連において、トランスナショナルかつ学際的な文学研究
    の視座から精査することを目的とする。その目的のために、国務省、財団、国際機関（UNESCO等）の文化政策に関する一次資料調査を実施するほか、その成果を英語の論文にて発表するものとする。

  • Creative Writing Education, Literature and Popular Culture in Cold War East Asia

    2019.10
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    2024.03

    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Yukari Yoshihara, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)), No Setting

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    Even though there were certain limitations to archival researches because of COV-19, this research project has achieved remarkably evidence-based ground-breaking outcome. Namely: 1. history and politics of publication, dissemination and circulation of the works by African American artists in East Asia, and the relationship between African American writers/ poets and American Creative Writing programs after WWII. 2. Mutual construction of Cold War Creative Writing education and infrastructure of translation, publication and the market. 3. Academic writing education and Creative Writing program in America and their introduction to Japan. 4. Creative Writing program in Iowa and Japanese creative writers who visited Iowa. 5. Modernism as the basis of Creative Writing pedagogy. 6, Cultural Cold War and Science Fiction. 6. Global Cold War and Anglophone Literature, Creative Writing and popular culture.

  • Creating Writing Programs, Literature, and Popular Culture in East Asia in the Cold War Era

    2019.10
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    2023.03

    日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業(学術研究助成基金助成金) 国際共同研究加速基金(国際共同研究強化(B)), Joint research, Coinvestigator(s)

  • Studies of American Literature and Culture under Global Cold War

    2019.04
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    2023.03

    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Ochi Hiromi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), No Setting

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    This study understands Cold War culture from the perspective of the global Cold War, which considers the Cold War not as a political polarization between East (SSSR) and West (USA), but as a larger trend that also involves the third world and culture. This study attempts to reconsider post-World War II American literature and culture in relation to the U.S.-led global cultural foreign policy during the Cold War, and to reconsider it from an interdisciplinary and international perspective based on empirical research conducted through archival surveys. The study has clarified that culture is not bilateral, such as Japan and the U.S., in relation to the military, politics, and economy, and that it influences each other, through the fields of music, film, art, and literature, as well as through archival research.

  • American Literature and Culture during the Global Cold War

    2019.04
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    2020.03

    日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業(学術研究助成基金助成金), Joint research, Coinvestigator(s)

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Works 【 Display / hide 】

  • Harvard-Yenching Fellowship

    ARIMITSU Michio

    2007
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    2011
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    Other

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Awards 【 Display / hide 】

  • The Saito Makoto Prize

    有光道生, 2020.06, The Japanese Association for American Studies

    Type of Award： Award from Japanese society, conference, symposium, etc.

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    論文 "De-Occidentalized 'Projections in the Haiku Manner': Poetics of Indeterminacy and Transcultural Reconfiguration of 'Frog Perspectives' in Richard Wright’s Last Poems”による

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Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • SEMINAR IN HUMANITIES 4

    2024

  • SEMINAR IN HUMANITIES 3

    2024

  • SEMINAR IN HUMANITIES 2

    2024

  • SEMINAR IN HUMANITIES 1

    2024

  • QUESTIONS OF HUMANITY 1

    2024

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Courses Previously Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • American Studies Seminar

    Keio University

    2021.04
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    2022.03
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    Full academic year, Other, Seminar, Within own ｆaculty

  • Introduction to American Studies

    Keio University

    2021.04
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    2022.03
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    Spring Semester, Lecture, Within own ｆaculty

  • Introduction to American American Studies

    Keio University

    2021.04
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    2022.03
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    Autumn Semester, Lecturer outside of Keio

  • 英語　インテンシブ　１年

    Keio University

    2014.04
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    2015.03
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    Full academic year, Lecture, Within own ｆaculty

  • English I

    Keio University

    2014.04
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    2015.03
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    Spring Semester, Lecture

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Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

  • American Studies Association, 

    2016
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  • 　The Japanese Association for American Studies, 

    2005
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    Present

  • 　The American Literature Society of Japan, 

    2003
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    Present

  • 「コロキア」同人, 

    2003
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    Present

  • MLA, 

    2003
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    Present

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Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

  • 2019.10
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    2021.10

    Vice-chair of the International Committee, American Studies Association

  • 2013
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    2016

    Editorial staff, The American Literature Society of Japan

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