Researcher Information - YUKI Masami |

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YUKI Masami

Department / Course

Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English

Job Professor


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 keyword(Ecocriticism, American Literature, Environmental Humanities)

Academic background
1.	Doctorial Graduate School, Division of Social Sciences Hiroshima University Expired with Credits Obtained
2.	Master Graduate School, Division of Education Kanazawa University Finished
3.	Faculty of Education Kanazawa University Graduated

Business career
1.	2020/04/01 ～	Professor Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English
2.	2016/04 ～ 2020/03	Professor Kanazawa University Faculty of Letters / School of International Studies
3.	2012/01 ～ 2016/03	Professor Kanazawa University Foreign Language Institute
4.	2003/05 ～ 2011/12	Associate Professor Kanazawa University Foreign Language Institute
5.	2000/08 ～ 2003/04	Lecturer Toyohashi University of Technology Language Center
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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

Official position and committee in Univ.
1.	2026/04/01 ～ 2028/03/31	Aoyama Gakuin University Chair

Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
1.	2020/10 ～ 2024/09	Asia-Norway Environmental Storytelling Network (ANEST) International Joint Research International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research and Innovation (INTPART)
2.	2020/04 ～ 2023/03	Possibility and Promise of DisasterLiterature Domestic Joint Research
3.	2014 ～ 2014	Preliminary Research on Environmental Humanities in Scandinavia Research by External Competitive Fund 2014 Grant

Activity in society
1.	2025/12/03 ～ 2025/12/03	Environmental Humanities at AGU: Innovation and Slow Scholarship
2.	2025/11/29 ～ 2025/11/29	Environmental Humanities Lecture & Conversation (moderator)
3.	2025/05/31 ～ 2025/05/31	Nature With/in Us

Book and thesis
1.	Books	Ecocriticism in Japan (Co-authored) 2018/01
2.	Books	Ishimure Michiko's Work in Ecocritical Perspective: Between Sea and Sky (Co-authored) 2016
3.	Books	Literature and Art after Fukushima: Four Approaches (Co-authored) 2014/02
4.	Papers	"Kinship in the Technosphere: From Ishimure Michiko’s Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow to Miyazaki Hayao’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" Southern Anthropocenes, edited by Casper Bruun Jensen,pp.153-160 (Sole-authored) 2025/10
5.	Papers	The Emergence of Environmental Humanities ASLE-Japan Newsletter,pp.4-5 (Sole-authored) 2024/12
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Lecturer and lecture
1.	2025/09/12	A More-Than-Human Turn in Literature
2.	2025/06/21	The Environmental Humanities in Japan: A Status Report (Taipei)
3.	2022/01/12	Ecocriticism in Japan (University of Cologne, online)
4.	2021/10/24	North and the Planetary (NIAV NishiAizu International Art Village)

Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/08/30	More than human beauty in scientists' nature writing (ASLE-Japan annual conference)
2.	2024/08/07	Teenage Hroine Mothers: A Postapocalyptic, More-Than-Human World in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and The New Wilderness (ANEST Closing Conference, Storytelling for Environmental Futur)
3.	2023/10/13	Kinship, Skinship, and Learning to Think Like Trees (A workshop of the Asia-Norway Environmental Storytelling Network (ANEST))
4.	2023/08/04	Thinking Like a Mountain, Yes, But What About a Tree or Even Uranium? (Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities)
5.	2022/06/05	comments on presentations at Workshop A "Queer Futurities: Utopias, Dystopias, and Disruptive Transnationalism" (JAAS 2022 Annual Conference)
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