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CHAN, Edward K.
 
Affiliation
Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, School of Culture, Media and Society
Job title
Professor
Degree
PhD ( University of Rochester )

Research Experience

  • 2018.04
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    Now

    Waseda University   Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences Department of Transcultural Studies   Professor

  • 2016.04
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    2018.03

    Waseda University   Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences Department of Transcultural Studies   Associate Professor

  • 2015.09
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    2016.03

    Nagoya University   Graduate School of Humanities   Adjunct Instructor

  • 2011.04
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    2016.03

    Aichi University   Faculty of International Communication Department of Comparative Culture   Associate Professor

  • 2010.08
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    2011.07

    Kennesaw State University   University Studies   Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Degree Program

  • 2008.08
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    2011.03

    Kennesaw State University   University Studies   Associate Professor

  • 2007.08
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    2010.07

    Kennesaw State University   University Studies   Co-director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Degree Program

  • 2008.04
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    2009.03

    Kobe College   School of Letters   Bryan Drake Guest Professor

  • 2003.08
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    2008.07

    Kennesaw State University   University Studies   Assistant Professor (tenure track)

  • 2003.08
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    2007.07

    Kennesaw State University   University Studies   Director of Year 2 Kennesaw: The Sophomore-Year Experience

  • 2002.08
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    2003.07

    Wabash College   Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts   Lilly Research Fellow

  • 2001.08
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    2002.07

    Wabash College   English   Owen Duston Visiting Assistant Professor

  • 1999.08
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    2001.07

    University of Rochester   Simon Business School (graduate level)   Teaching Assistant (master's program)

  • 1995.08
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    1999.07

    University of Rochester   English Literature   Graduate Student Instructor

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Education Background

  • 1993.08
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    2004.12

    University of Rochester   School of Arts and Sciences   English  

  • 1990.09
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    1993.06

    California State University Fullerton   College of Humanities and Social Sciences   English  

  • 1985.09
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    1989.06

    University of California, Riverside   College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences   English  

Professional Memberships

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    JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES

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    Society for Utopian Studies

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    American Studies Association

Research Areas

  • Aesthetics and art studies   Film studies / English literature and literature in the English language   American literature

Research Interests

  • utopia

  • Transnational consumption of culture

  • Film

  • Science fiction

  • Utopian fiction

  • Race

  • American literature

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Awards

  • University College Distinguished Research & Creative Activity Award

    2010   Kennesaw State University  

    Winner： Edward K. Chan

  • Eugenio Battisti Award for Best Article in Utopian Studies for 2006

    2007   Society for Utopian Studies   Utopia and the Problem of Race: Accounting for the Remainder in the Imagination of the 1970s Utopian Subject

    Winner： Edward K. Chan

 

Papers

  • White Nationalism

    Edward K. Chan

    Whiteness and American Literature     58 - 71  2025.06  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

    DOI

  • America and/as White Supremacy

    Edward K. CHAN, Patricia Ventura

    Book: Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture, 1945-2020     82 - 99  2024.05  [Refereed]  [Invited]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • MAKINO Kazu: A Musical Life beyond Cultural Boundaries

    Chan, Edward K., Hoenigman, David

    Transcultural Studies   13   55 - 77  2024.02

    Authorship：Corresponding author

  • Race

    Edward K. CHAN

    Book: The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures     359 - 371  2022.03  [Refereed]  [Invited]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • Race in the Blade Runner Cycle and Demographic Dystopia

    Edward K. Chan

    Science Fiction Film and Television   13 ( 1 ) 59 - 76  2020  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • The White Power Utopia and the Reproduction of Victimized Whiteness

    Edward K. Chan

    Book: Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society (Palgrave Macmillan)     139 - 159  2019.11  [Refereed]

  • Introduction: Articulating Race and Utopia

    Edward K. CHAN, Patricia Ventura

    Utopian Studies   30 ( 1 ) 1 - 7  2019  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • Inhabiting the Space of the Other: Josef von Sternberg’s Anatahan

    Edward K. Chan

    Book: Projecting the World: Representing the “Foreign” in Classical Hollywood (Wayne State University Press)     89 - 114  2017  [Refereed]

  • Un-canning the Canny: McDonald’s Japan and the Mr. James Saga

    Edward K. Chan

    Book: Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers (Palgrave Macmillan)     233 - 251  2014  [Refereed]

  • Narrating Social Space: Ceremony, Utopian Desire, and Cultural Difference

    Edward K. Chan

    Civilization 21   29 ( 29 ) 55 - 79  2012

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  • Kurosawa Akira’s Stray Dog (Nora inu) and Cross-cultural Interpretation

    Edward K. Chan

    Civilization 21   27 ( 27 ) 201 - 221  2011

    CiNii

  • Designing and Implementing New Initiatives for Sophomores

    Edward K. Chan

    Book: Helping Sophomores Succeed: Understanding and Improving the Second Year Experience (Jossey-Bass)     217 - 233  2009  [Refereed]

  • Food and Cassettes: Encounters with Indian Filmsong

    Edward K. Chan

    Book: Global Bollywood: The Transnational Travels of Hindi Song-and-Dance Sequences (University of Minnesota Press)     264 - 287  2008  [Refereed]

  • Utopia and the Problem of Race: Accounting for the Remainder in the Imagination of the 1970s Utopian Subject

    Edward K. Chan

    Utopian Studies   17 ( 3 ) 465 - 490  2006  [Refereed]

  • On Returning: ‘ “America” ’ in The Fifth Element and Kal Ho Naa Ho

    Edward K. Chan

    Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture   38 ( 4 ) 389 - 412  2005  [Refereed]

  • (Vulgar) Identity Politics in Outer Space: Delany’s Triton and the Heterotopian Narrative

    Edward K. Chan

    Journal of Narrative Theory   31 ( 2 ) 178 - 211  2001  [Refereed]

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Books and Other Publications

  • White Power and American Neoliberalism

    Patricia Ventura, Edward K. Chan( Part： Joint author)

    University of California Press  2023.03 ISBN: 9780520392793

  • Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society

    Edward K. Chan( Part： Joint editor)

    Palgrave Macmillan  2019.11

  • The Racial Horizon of Utopia: Unthinking the Future of Race in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels

    Edward K. Chan( Part： Sole author, 1-226)

    Ralahine Utopian Studies / Peter Lang  2016

  • American Subcultures

    Edward K Chan, Motoko AIMOTO( Part： Joint author, Chan: main text; Aimoto: notes)

    Eihōsha 

Presentations

  • New Black Horror and Racial Dystopia

    Chan, Edward K., Ventura, Patricia

    Society for Utopian Studies 

    Presentation date： 2024.10

    Event date：
    2024.10
    　
    　

  • Twenty-first-century Geisha Masquerades in Heterotopic Japan

    Chan Edward K.

    Society for Utopian Studies 

    Presentation date： 2024.10

    Event date：
    2024.10
    　
    　

  • Locating the ‘Distant Observer’: Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ereki no wakadaisho

    Chan Edward K.  [Invited]

    Western Popular Music and Asian Modernity (Doshisha University) 

    Presentation date： 2024.07

  • Woke in Japan (Part of “Conceptualizing and Teaching the Problematics of ‘Woketopia’ in a Global Context” roundtable)

    Edward K. CHAN

    Society for Utopian Studies 

    Presentation date： 2023.11

  • WWG1WGA: Far-White Solidarity in January 6 Documentaries

    Patricia Ventura, Edward K. CHAN

    American Studies Association 

    Presentation date： 2023.11

  • Black Lives Matter Utopian Literature

    Edward K. CHAN, Patricia Ventura

    Society for Utopian Studies 

    Presentation date： 2022.11

  • White Power and American Neoliberal Culture

    Edward K. CHAN, Patricia VENTURA  [Invited]

    Marxist Reading Group (University of Florida) via Zoom 

    Presentation date： 2022.04

  • White Power Utopian Ethno-nationalism in the Era of Neoliberal Racial Capitalism

    CHAN Edward K, VENTURA Patricia

    American Studies Association 

    Presentation date： 2019.11

  • Heterotopic Borderlands—and Oranges

    Edward K. Chan  [Invited]

    Asian American Literature Association in Japan 

    Presentation date： 2018.09

  • Constructing an Online Reference Database for Cinematic Connections between Japan and the US

    Edward K. Chan

    Japanese Association for American Studies 

    Presentation date： 2018.06

  • Bollywood Filmsong and Transnational/Transcultural Consumption—A Reevaluation

    Edward K. Chan

    Oceanic Popular Culture Association 

    Presentation date： 2018.05

  • The White Nationalist Utopia and the Reproduction of Victimized Whiteness: H. A. Covington’s The Hill of the Ravens

    Edward K. Chan

    Society for Utopian Studies 

    Presentation date： 2017.11

  • Parallel Resistances: Trump’s Consolidation of Whiteness vs. Afrofuturism

    Edward K. Chan

    Cultural Typhoon 

    Presentation date： 2017.06

  • David Lane’s White Nationalism and the Utopian Future of the White Race

    Edward K. Chan

    American Studies Association 

    Presentation date： 2016.11

  • Paul Schrader’s Mishima and the Fantasy of Japan

    Edward K. Chan

    Association for Asian Studies in Asia 

    Presentation date： 2016.06

  • Countermulticultural Dystopias: Confronting White Fears of Race in Utopia

    Edward K. Chan

    Society for Utopian Studies 

    Presentation date： 2015.11

  • On Returning: “ ‘America’ ” in Kal Ho Naa Ho

    Edward K. Chan

    The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 

    Presentation date： 2014.06

  • Un-canning the Canny: McDonald’s Japan and the Mr. James Saga

    Edward K. Chan

    American Studies Association of Korea 

    Presentation date： 2013.11

  • "Filming" the Haptic Utopia in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood

    Edward K. Chan

    Society for Utopian Studies 

    Presentation date： 2013.11

  • Intersections between Japanese and American Cinema: A Preliminary Typology

    Edward K. Chan

    FilmAsia 

    Presentation date： 2012.11

  • Working through the Bipolarity of the Bush Era in Japanese Cinema: Watai Takeharu’s Little Birds and Meike Mitsuru’s The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai

    Edward K. Chan

    South Atlantic Modern Language Association 

    Presentation date： 2010.11

  • The Role of Race and Identity in American Utopian Fictions

    Edward K. Chan  [Invited]

    Kansai Branch of the American Literature Society of Japan 

    Presentation date： 2009.01

  • Bolly-food

    Edward K. Chan

    South Atlantic Modern Language Association 

    Presentation date： 2007.11

  • Identity without Memory: The Silence of the Racial Paratext in Robinson’s Mars Trilogy

    Edward K. Chan

    Society for Utopian Studies 

    Presentation date： 2007.10

  • The Semiotics of Occupied Space in Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog

    Edward K. Chan

    South Atlantic Modern Language Association 

    Presentation date： 2006.11

  • The Forgotten Student: Understanding and Supporting Sophomores

    Edward K. Chan  [Invited]

    National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition 

    Presentation date： 2006.03

  • Occupation and Transference: ‘America’ and Postwar Japanese Culture

    Edward K. Chan

    Modern Language Association 

    Presentation date： 2005.12

  • The Exotification of Nostalgia or the Nostalgiafication of Exotica?

    Edward K. Chan

    Modern Language Association 

    Presentation date： 2004.12

  • Food and Cassettes: A Phenomenology of Fetish Objects

    Edward K. Chan

    Society for Cinema Studies 

    Presentation date： 2003.03

  • Accounting for the Remainder in the Imagination of the 1970s Utopian Subject

    Edward K. Chan

    Society for Utopian Studies 

    Presentation date： 2001.10

  • First Contact in Third Space: Difference and Utopian Desire

    Edward K. Chan

    Northeast Modern Language Association 

    Presentation date： 1998.04

  • Bhabha, Goux, and the Commitment to Theory

    Edward K. Chan

    21st Conference in Modern Literature 

    Presentation date： 1997.10

  • Inhabiting the Space of the Other: Hollywood Directors Making Japanese Films

    Edward K. Chan

    Asian Studies Conference Japan 

  • Gloria Anzaldúa's Model of Identity and Utopian Desire

    Edward K. Chan

    Japanese Association for American Studies 

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Misc

  • Race and utopian desire in American literature and society

    Patricia Ventura, Edward K. Chan

    Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society     1 - 300  2019.01

    Other  

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    Introduction Bringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character of utopian thought in American culture and society. Utopia in everyday usage designates an idealized fantasy place, but within the interdisciplinary field of utopian studies, the term often describes the worldviews of non-dominant groups when they challenge the ruling order. In a time when white supremacy is reasserting itself in the US and around the world, there is a growing need to understand the vital relationship between race and utopia as a resource for resistance. Utopian literature opens up that relationship by envisioning and negotiating the prospect of a better future while acknowledging the brutal past. The collection fills a critical gap in both literary studies, which has largely ignored the issue of race and utopia, and utopian studies, which has said too little about race.

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  • Interview with Shonen Knife

    Edward K. Chan, Naoko YAMANO

    Civilization 21   36   119 - 125  2016.03  [Domestic journal]

    Authorship：Corresponding author

    Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (bulletin of university, research institution)  

  • Interview with Christophe Charles, Part 2

    Edward K. Chan, Christophe Charles

    Civilization 21   35   203 - 213  2015.12  [Domestic journal]

    Authorship：Corresponding author

    Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (bulletin of university, research institution)  

  • Interview with Christophe Charles, Part 1

    Edward K. Chan, Christophe Charles

    Civilization 21   34   233 - 244  2015.03  [Domestic journal]

    Authorship：Corresponding author

    Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (bulletin of university, research institution)  

  • Interview with HATAKEYAMA Chihei

    Edward K. Chan, Chihei Hatakeyama, Akiko Mizoguchi

    Civilization 21   31   155 - 161  2013.12  [Domestic journal]

    Authorship：Corresponding author

  • Review of New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction edited by Donald L. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox (U of South Carolina Press, 2008)

    Edward K. Chan

    Utopian Studies   22 ( 1 ) 174 - 177  2011

    Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

  • Review of Mongrel Signatures: Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo edited by Annalisa Oboe (Rodopi, 2003)

    Edward K. Chan

    Utopian Studies   16 ( 2 ) 307 - 311  2005

    Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

  • Review of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts (Routledge, 2000)

    Edward K. Chan

      12 ( 1 )  2001

    Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

  • Review of The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures by Ralph Pordzik (Peter Lang, 2001)

    Narin Hassan, Edward K. Chan

    Utopian Studies   12 ( 2 ) 362 - 364  2001

    Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

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Syllabus

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Academic Activities

  • President

    Society for Utopian Studies  

    2024.10
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    Now

  • Editorical Board

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Utopian Studies (Society for Utopian Studies)  

    2023.11
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    Now

  • Manuscript reviewer

    Peer review

    Waseda RILAS Journal (Waseda University Research Institute for Letters, Arts and Sciences)  

    2023.06
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    Now

  • Manuscript reviewer

    Peer review

    Somatechnics (journal)  

    2022.08
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    Now

  • Editorial Board member, American Studies with American Studies International (journal)

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Mid-America American Studies Association  

    2019.05
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    Now

  • Manuscript reviewer, Utopian Studies (journal)

    Peer review

    Society for Utopian Studies  

    2019.01
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    Now

  • Steering Committee member

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Society for Utopian Studies  

    2017.11
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    Now

  • Editorial Board member

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Department of Transcultural Studies, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University  

    2016.04
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    Now

  • Manuscript reviewer, Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal

    Peer review

    University of Manitoba  

    2011.01
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    Now

  • Manuscript reviewer, Somatechnics (journal)

    Peer review

    Charles Sturt University (Australia) / Utrecht University (Netherlands)  

    2022.08
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  • Editorial Board member

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Department of Comparative Cultures, Faculty of International Communication, Aichi University  

    2011.04
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    2016.03

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Internal Special Research Projects

  • Racial Utopianism and Cultural Representation from a Comparative Perspective

    2024   Julian Jun ABE, TOYOTA Kaomi (CHOW Jia Wen), Michael LARSON, SAKAMOTO Azumi, Phillip E. WEGNER, IRIE Tomoko, Forrest BOR, NAKAMURA Asami, Alex ZAMALIN, Eric MARGOLIS, IIDA Mayu, MORITA Norimasa

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    Combined with an “International Academic Events Organization Grant” from Waseda’s International Office, the Tokutei Kadai grant funded a three-day interdisciplinary symposium entitled “Utopia/Dystopia, Race, Nation,” bringing two eminent scholars from the US to Japan, Dr. Phillip E. Wegner and Dr. Alex Zamalin, to present and meet with students and faculty from several universities in Japan. The event was organized by Edward K. CHAN, professor of American studies in the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University. The visit by Professors Wegner and Zamalin included research consultations with six Waseda students to discuss their research and future plans. The presentations included the following: Julian Jun ABE, graduate student, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge: “Hula as an Embodied Utopia: Shared Cultural Kinship Beyond Blood”; TOYOTA Kaomi (CHOW Jia Wen), graduate student, Global Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies, Waseda University: “Imagining Japanese Identity in Contemporary Japan”; Michael LARSON, assistant professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University: “Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren and Utopia without Totality”; SAKAMOTO Azumi, graduate student, Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University: “Invasive Species and Nationalist Fears: Racialized Narratives of the African ‘Killer’ Bee”; Phillip E. WEGNER, professor and Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar in English, University of Florida: “Dystopia, Allegory, and Utopia in the Contemporary Novel”; IRIE Tomoko, graduate student, Global Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies, Waseda University: “Racial/National Identity in Dystopia: An Analysis of Sakasama no Patema”; Forrest BOR, undergraduate student, Global Studies in Japanese Culture, Waseda University: “The ‘Demi-human’ as a (Non)racial Other in Tokyo Ghoul (Sui Ishida)”; NAKAMURA Asami, lecturer in English literature, Graduate School of International Studies, Kobe University: “Queering Waste in Fresh Kill (1994) by Shu Lea Cheang and Slow River (1995) by Nicola Griffith”; Alex ZAMALIN, department chair of Africana Studies and professor of Africana studies and political science, Rutgers University: “The Future of Utopia: Thinking with Afrofuturism”; Eric MARGOLIS, graduate student, Global Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies, Waseda University: “‘Japaneseness’ as a Paratext: Reading National Identity Out of Translated Contemporary Fiction”; IIDA Mayu, project lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo: “You Can Only Be the Utopia/n: Racial Politics and Utopianism amid Troubled Times”; MORITA Norimasa, professor, Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University: “British Skinhead Culture and the National Front”