Michael Toole

Ph.D., Japanese with a Minor in Visual Cultures | University of Wisconsin–Madison

A.M., Japanese Literature | Washington University in St. Louis

B.A. in Hispanic Language and Literatures and Japanese Language and Literature | Boston University

Michael Toole is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures. He previously worked at the University of Denver and Macalester College. He holds a PhD in Japanese Literature with a minor in Visual Cultures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His scholarship explores sexual and corporeal difference 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 transformed norms of the body and sexuality by revising literary and artistic modes and conventions of representation.