Michael Toole

Biography

Ph.D., Japanese with a Minor in Visual Cultures | University of Wisconsin–Madison
A.M., Japanese Literature | Washington University in St. Louis

Michael Toole, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, comes to MSU from the University of Denver. He worked for three years at the University of Denver as a Teaching Assistant Professor of Japanese. Prior to that, Michael taught Japanese and Japanese Studies courses at Macalester College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His scholarship explores the relationship between sexuality and order in early modern Japan visual culture and Luso-Japanese cultural production. His first book project, Queering Order: Visualizing Sexualities and Bodies in the Print Culture of Early Modern Japan, examines how authors and artists negotiated the sexual, visual, and bodily ordering of early modern Japan.