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Affiliation
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Faculty of Law ( Hiyoshi )
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Position
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Assistant Professor/Senior Assistant Professor
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Related Websites
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Contact Address
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Hiyoshi Campus, Raiosha
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Telephone No.
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+81-45-566-1255
Larson, Michael
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MW Larson is a visiting assistant professor at Keio University in the Faculty of Law teaching at the Hiyoshi Campus. He received his BA from Dartmouth College, completed his MFA in creative writing at the Ohio State University, and earned his PhD in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. From 2013-2014 he was the recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant, and he used this funding to research a series of essays on the survivors of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. His current research focuses on utopian studies, science fiction, and flows of culture across the Pacific. His essays have been published or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, the Journal of the Jissen English Department, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ninth Letter, Poetics Today, and Utopian Studies. He has previously presented his research at the 2021 Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, the 2019 American Literary Society of Japan conference, the 2016 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference, the 2014 Asian Studies Japan conference, and the Japan Studies at Dartmouth conference. His first book, "When the Waves Came: Loss, Recovery, and the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami," was published by Chin Music Press in 2020.
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“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”
―Oscar Wilde
Career 【 Display / hide 】
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2008.07-2010.06
Japanese Exchange & Teaching Programme, Mustu City Board of Education, Assistant Language Teacher
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2010.09-2013.05
The Ohio State University, Department of English, Graduate Teaching Associate
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2017.04-2018.10
Tama Art University, Department of General Education, Special Lecturer (English)
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2018.04-2018.10
Waseda University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Social Lecturer (English)
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2018.04-2020.03
Jissen Women's University, Department of English, Special Lecturer
Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】
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2004.09-2008.06
Dartmouth College, Department of English, English Literature
United States
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2010.09-2013.05
The Ohio State University (Graduate), Department of English, Creative Writing (MFA)
United States
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2013.07-2014.06
Tohoku University, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Graduate Researcher
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2014.09-2021.05
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Graduate), Department of English, Creative Writing (PhD)
United States
Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】
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Humanities & Social Sciences / English literature and literature in the English language
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Humanities & Social Sciences / Literature in general
Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】
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Science Fiction Literature
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Utopian Literature
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Contemporary American Literature
Books 【 Display / hide 】
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"Notes on Brotherhood" English Literature in the Classroom Vol. 1
Larson, Michael, 日本英文学会関東支部, Asahi Press, 2023.01, Page： 154p
Scope: Lead Author
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When the Waves Came
Larson, MW, Chin Music Press, 2020.05
Papers 【 Display / hide 】
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Science Fiction Toward a World Literature by George Slusser
Larson, Michael
Science Fiction Research Association Review 54 ( 2 ) 26 - 28 2024.04
Lead author
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Being, Work, and the Cold War in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
Larson, Michael
The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan 22 19 - 32 2024.02
Accepted
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Accumulating and Realizing the Radical Potential of Catastrophe in Karen Tei Yamashita’s "Through the Arc of the Rain Forest"
Larson, Michael
Utopian Studies (The Pennsylvania State University Press) 32 ( 3 ) 494 - 494 2021.11
Accepted, ISSN 1045-991X
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Reading Kenji Miyazawa after 3.11: Region, Utopia, and Modernity
Larson, Michael William
The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) 103 - 110 2021.07
Lead author
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The Dialectics of March 11: A Decade After the Japan Tsunami
Larson, MW
Los Angeles Review of Books 2021.03
Lead author
Papers, etc., Registered in KOARA 【 Display / hide 】
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Ursula Le Guin, Samuel Delaney, and the poststructural utopias of Cold-War SF
Larson, Michael
学事振興資金研究成果実績報告書 (慶應義塾大学) 2024
Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】
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Post-Structuralism, Science Fiction, and Utopia in Cold War American Literature
2025.04-2030.03Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Principal investigator
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The Transpacific Development of Creative Writing Education during the Long Cold War
2024.09-2027.03Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Collaborative Research), Coinvestigator(s)
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"Utopia" in Contemporary American Literature
2020.04-2023.03Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Larson, Michael William, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Principal investigator
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Creative Writing Education, Literature and Popular Culture in Cold War East Asia
2019.10-2023.03Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)), Yukari Yoshihara, Michio Arimitsu, Yohei Chiba, Hiromi Ochi, Kyoko Yoshida, Michael Larson, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)), Collaborating Investigator(s) (not designated on Grant-in-Aid)
Awards 【 Display / hide 】
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Tinsley-Helton Dissertation Fellowship
2020.05, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English, For completion of a promising dissertation during the fellowship year
Type of Award： Other
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The Wladyslaw Cieszynski Literary Prize
Larson, Michael, 2017.05, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English, Award for best short story by a graduate student
Type of Award： International academic award (Japan or overseas), Country： United States
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Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship
2017.05, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English
Type of Award： International academic award (Japan or overseas), Country： United States
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The Sheila Roberts Literary Prize
2015.05, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English
Type of Award： International academic award (Japan or overseas), Country： United States
Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】
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ADVANCED ENGLISH(1)
2026
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ADVANCED ENGLISH(2)
2026
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ADVANCED STUDY OF HUMANITIES 1
2026
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ADVANCED STUDY OF HUMANITIES 2
2026
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ADVANCED FOREIGN LANGUAGE (ENGLISH)
2026
Social Activities 【 Display / hide 】
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2nd Academic Writing Workshop
University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Promotion Office
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3rd Academic Presentation Workshop
University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Promotion Office
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1st Academic Writing Workshop
University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Promotion Office
,2020.02
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