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Gorman Michael

Department / Course

Hiroshima City University Faculty of International Studies Department of International Studies

Job Professor

Profile
--Specialty: American Literature and American Cultural Studies. --Research interests: Rural American literature and culture. American modernism, transnational literature, and environmental literature

Business career
2019/04/01 ～	Professor Hiroshima City University Faculty of International Studies Department of International Studies

Academic background
2005/12 Degree Acquisition	PhD


My scholarly interests are situated at the confluence of American studies, American literature, and the environmental humanities. For the last several years, my research has concentrated on representations of rural America, particularly texts and events which challenge stereotypical notions about small towns and rural communities as being backward, insular, and unsophisticated. In my scholarship and in my teaching, I explore rural America’s cosmopolitanism and its cultural, economic, environmental, and sociopolitical links to lands outside the border of the United States. My publications and presentations reflect my commitment to issues of diversity, global environmental issues, and human rights concerns—themes that play a central role in my current research into the convergence of American literature and the climate crisis.

Present specialized field
Literature in English keyword(American Modernism, Asian American Literature, World War I, Rural American Culture)


2005	Chang-rae Lee and trauma
2000	Rural cosmopolitanism
1998	Rural American Culture
1998	Willa Cather and Native America

Book and thesis
Papers	Rural Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Imperialism in Willa Cather’s One of Ours The Japanese Journal of American Studies 28,pp.61-81 (Sole-authored) 2017
Papers	Comments and Questions about ‘Ecocriticism and the Psychology of Information Processing: Taking a Seat at the Table’ by Professor Scott Slovic (10),pp.15-19 (Sole-authored) 2017
Books	Hiroshima and Peace Studies: From the First Atomic Bombing to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (Co-authored) 2023/03
Books	Guide to Nuclear Culture (Co-authored) 2017/09/25
Papers	Where Pagodas Rise on Every Hill: Romance as Resistance in "A Son of the Celestial." Cather Studies 13: Willa Cather’s Pittsburgh 13,pp.63-84 (Sole-authored) 2021

Academic conference presentation
2022/10/22	Rural Alliances, Wiindigoo Economics, and Indigenous-led Resistance in Winona LaDuke’s To Be a Water Protector and Ash Davidson’s Damnation Spring (Western Literature Association Conference)
2016/12/13	From Nuclear Anxiety to Nuclear Apathy: The Evolution of Nuclear Imagery in American Popular Culture (Atomic Bomb Literature International Conference)

Belonging society
2012/04/01	Asian American Literature Association
2005/10/01 ～	Western Literature Association