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Masahiko Abe

Professor, Literature in English at The University of Tokyo

Major works

His publications include On Slow Motion(2009), Staring and Literature(2012), Discovering Poetry(2014), Politeness and English Literature: Examing the Kindness of the Narrator (2015), Talking Like Children Helps: Strategy of Infantilism in Japanese Literature (2015), People Dancing to the Music of Paperwork (2023). He won the Waseda Literary Award for Going to the Wilderness in 1998 and the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities for Staring and Literature in 2013.

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About me

Masahiko ABE(1966-) is a professor of English Literature at the University of Tokyo. He obtained his BA and MA at the University of Tokyo and PhD at Cambridge University.

Courses and Programs taught by Masahiko Abe