Larson, Michael

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.

• Science Fiction Literature
• /Utopian Literature
• /Contemporary American Literature