Ariel K. Acosta

Tokyo-based professor, academic, translator, writer, veranda gardener, human being

I teach classes on modern Japanese history, culture, and literature at universities in Tokyo.

I translate academic and creative writing from Japanese into English.

teaching

2019- Present

Waseda University, School of Culture, Media and Society

Introduction to Japanese Culture and Civilization 3

Japanese Culture and Society 2
Topics in Japanese Literature 1
Kiso Enshû
Seminar on Japanese Media and Culture

Women’s Coming of Age Narratives

2021- Present, Waseda University, School of Social Sciences
English 2-2 (Writing)

2021-Present, Rikkyo University, College of Intercultural Communication

Social Movements and Social Change
Special Topics in Intercultural Communication

Education

Ph.D. East Asian Studies, New York University, “Rural Space in a Cosmopolitan Time: Japanese Agrarianism from 1905-1933“, 2018

B.A. Literary and Cultural Studies, College of William and Mary

Publications

“A Quest for Meaningful Living: Japanese Tolstoyans and the Idea of Seikatsu” in Japan’s Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm, Cambria Press, edited by Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi, 2020

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