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Specialization and related fields

Academic background

Business career

Belonging society

Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense

Book and thesis

Lecturer and lecture

Academic conference presentation

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YUKI Masami
Department Aoyama Gakuin University Department of English, College of Literature

Position Professor

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Introduction to American Culture Ⅰ, II; Reading I; Lecture on Global Literature Ⅰ, II; Seminar in Global Literature Ⅰ, II; Lecture in American Novels E (Ⅰ)(II); Advanced Lecture in American Novels E Ⅰ, II

■ Specialization and related fields

environmental literature, ecocriticism, American literature (Key Word：Ecocriticism, American Literature, Environmental Humanities)

■ Academic background

1.	Hiroshima University〔Doctorial Course〕 Accomplished credits for doctoral program
2.	Kanazawa University〔Master Course〕 Completed
3.	Kanazawa University Graduated

■ Business career

1.	2020/04～	Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English Professor
2.	2016/04～2020/03	Kanazawa University Faculty of Letters / School of International Studies Professor
3.	2012/01～2016/03	Kanazawa University Foreign Language Institute Professor
4.	2003/05～2011/12	Kanazawa University Foreign Language Institute Associate Professor
5.	2000/08～2003/04	Toyohashi University of Technology Language Center Lecturer
6.	1998/09～2000/07	Toyohashi University of Technology Language Center Research Assistant
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■ Belonging society

1.	1994/05～	The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
2.	2016/09～2020/11	∟ President
3.		The American Literature Society of Japan

■ Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense

1.	2020/10～2023/09	Asia-Norway Environmental Storytelling Network (ANEST) (Key Word : )
2.	2020/04～2023/03	Possibility and Promise of DisasterLiterature (Key Word : )
3.	2014～2014	Preliminary Research on Environmental Humanities in Scandinavia (Key Word : )

■ Book and thesis

1.	Book	Ecocriticism in Japan (Collaboration) 2018/01
2.	Book	Ishimure Michiko's Work in Ecocritical Perspective: Between Sea and Sky (Collaboration) 2016
3.	Book	Literature and Art after Fukushima: Four Approaches (Collaboration) 2014/02
4.	Article	"Eating Contamination in Japan's Anthropocene Fiction" Literature and Environment (25),pp.5-15 (Single) 2022/06
5.	Article	"Rethinking Nature Writing: Towards Anthropocenic Imagination" Thought Current in English Literature (94),pp.155-172 (Single) 2021/12
6.	Article	"Designing the communication of traditional ecological knowledge: A Noto case study" Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (Single) 2019
7.	Article	“Dystopia and Utopia in a Nuclear Landscape: Emerging Aesthetic in Satoyama" Ecocritical Aesthetics: Language, Beauty, and the Environment (Single) 2018
8.	Article	“Eating Life at a Contaminated Table: The Narrative Significance of Toxic Meals in Contemporary Japan" A Global History of Literature and the Environment (Single) 2017
9.	Article	“Meals in the Age of Toxic Environments" The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities (Single) 2017
10.	Article	“Analyzing Satoyama: A Rural Environment, Landscape, and Zone” Poetica 80,pp.51-63 (Single) 2014
11.	Article	“Ecocriticism in Japan” The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism (Single) 2014
12.	Article	“Why Eat Toxic Food?: Mercury Poisoning, Minamata, and Literary Resistance to Risks of Food” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 19(4),pp.732-750 (Single) 2012
13.	Article	“Sound Ground to Stand on: Soundscapes in Williams’s Work” Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams: New Critical Essays (Single) 2003
14.	Other	"The Actuality of Ecocriticism: An Interview with Yuki Masami" More-Than-Human 2020/07
15.	Other	Japanese translation of David Abram's The Spell of Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. (Single) 2017
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■ Lecturer and lecture

1.	2022/07/24	More-Than-Human: Conversation with Ohkojima Maki (Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa)
2.	2022/01/12	Ecocriticism in Japan (University of Cologne, online)
3.	2021/10/24	North and the Planetary (NIAV NishiAizu International Art Village)

■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2023/10/13	"Kinship, Skinship, and Learning to Think Like Trees" (A workshop of the Asia-Norway Environmental Storytelling Network (ANEST))
2.	2023/08/04	Thinking Like a Mountain, Yes, But What ABout a Tree or Even Uranium? (Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities)
3.	2022/06/05	comments on presentations at Workshop A "Queer Futurities: Utopias, Dystopias, and Disruptive Transnationalism" (JAAS 2022 Annual Conference)
4.	2021/10/23	Towards a “Culture of Survival” in the Anthropocene: Agency and Scale in the Work of Ishimure Michiko (The 7th International Symposium on Literature and Environment in East Asia)
5.	2021/08/04	Redefining Survival in the Anthropocene: Literary and Artistic Interventions on Nuclear Waste Disposal Issues (STREAMS: Transformative Environmental Humanities)
6.	2021/07/03	Thinking Like Uranium: Planetary Imagination Toward Nuclear Waste (Asia-Norway Environmental Storytelling Network (ANEST) Online Workshop)
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