Takayuki Tatsumi, Ph.D.
Mita Kenkyushitsu 307A, Keio University
2-15-45 Mita,
Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345 JAPAN
tatsumi [at] flet.keio.ac.jp

TAKAYUKI TATSUMI, Ph.D., is professor of English at Keio University, director of the English Literary Society of Japan (2004-), president of the Tokyo Chapter of the American Literature Society (2005-), editor of The American Review (Japanese Association for American Studies) and Mark Twain Studies (The Japan Mark Twain Society). He has taught American literature and literary theory at Keio University since 1989. He won major awards with the following books: Cyberpunk America (1988; the winner of The 1988 American Studies Book Prize [Japan-US Friendship Commission]); New Americanist Poetics (1995: The 1995 Yukichi Fukuzawa Award [Keio University]); Japanese SF Controversies: 1957-1997 ([ed.] 2000; The 21st Japan SF Award [SFWJ]). Co-editor of the New Japanese Fiction issue of Review of Contemporary Fiction (22.2 [Summer 2002]), he has published a variety of essays in Critique, Para*Doxa, Extrapolation, American Book Review, Mechademia, and elsewhere on subjects ranging from American Renaissance to post-cyberpunk fiction and film. His recent works include "Literary History on the Road: Transatlantic Crossings and Transpacific Crossovers" in PMLA 119.1 (January 2004) and Full Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Duke UP, 2006).

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