Arimitsu, Michio
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Arimitsu, Michio
Faculty of Law/ProfessorBasic Information
Specialty
アメリカ文学 / 比較文学 / 人種理論
Biography
Researcher profile
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), 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.
Research experience
Keio University Department of Law and Political Science Full Professor
Keio University Department of Law and Political Science Associate Professor
Columbia University, Institute for Research in Af-Am Studies Visiting scholar
Research
Research Interests
- Cultural Cold War
- Comparative Literature
- Transnationalism
- Cosmopolitanism
- Poetics
- Critical Race Theory
Research areas
English literature and literature in the English language
Gender studies
Area studies / Area Studies