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Takayuki Tatsumi
He has taught American Literature and Critical Theory at Keio University, Tokyo, since 1989. Having served as President of The American Literature Society of Japan (2014–2017) , The Poe Society of Japan (2009–) and Keio University’s Society of Arts and Letters (2018-), and also as Vice President of the Melville Society of Japan (2012–), he is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (2009-). His book Full Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Duke UP, 2006) won the 2010 IAFA (International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts) Distinguished Scholarship Award. Co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies (Routledge, 2019), he has also published a variety of essays in PMLA, Critique, Extrapolation, American Book Review, Mechademia, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature and elsewhere on subjects ranging from the American Renaissance to post-cyberpunk fiction and film.
