Past: BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar Lecture

Dr. Arinori Mori, professor of American Literature at Chukyo University and this year’s BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar at Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies, will deliver a lecture at Kent Library on Wednesday, Feb. 28.

Mori’s lecture is entitled “Reconsidering Faulkner’s Visit to Japan Through a Comparative Reading of ‘Impressions of Japan,’ ‘To the Youth of Japan’ and the 1954 production of ‘Godzilla.'” The public is invited to attend the lecture at 4 p.m. in Kent Library’s third floor lounge reading room 336. Admission is free.

Mori is a professor of American Literature at Chukyo University in Japan. He teaches comparative film studies, literature of the South and William Faulkner. He has co-published “William Faulkner and Representation of Aging and Crossing Borders in English and American Literature.” He is also the editor of “The Road and Another World in English Literature.”