{"id":97,"date":"2017-09-27T21:20:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T21:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-asian-languages-cultures\/facultystaff\/arthurmitchell\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:18:10","slug":"arthurmitchell","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/asian-languages-cultures\/facultystaff\/arthurmitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Mitchell teaches and studies the intersections of art and politics in modern Japan. His book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/9781501752919\/disruptions-of-daily-life\/\"><em>Disruptions of Daily Life: Japanese Literary Modernism in the World<\/em><\/a> (Cornell, 2020), examines the socially subversive potential of formalist fiction in 1920\u2019s Japan. Delving deeper into the theme of agitational art, his current research, funded by a Fulbright Grant 2021-2022, uses modern literary narratives to uncover a history of racial consciousness in modern Japan and more generally probes the potential for an antiracist scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>His interest in confronting systemic inequity in his research is grounded in a commitment to and fascination with inclusive pedagogy in the classroom. In \u201cToward Exhilarating Classrooms: Representation vs. Inclusion in Japanese-Language Education\u201d (<em>JLL<\/em>, 2020),\u201d he explores the idea of language teachers bringing their own complex biographical relationship with the Japanese language with them into the classroom as a way to undermine traditional language ideology and allow non-traditional students to have a sense of place and belonging.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur did his studies at Yale University, where he earned a B.A. in literature and then eventually a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures. He has also studied modern literature at Sophia University and Waseda University, both in Tokyo, Japan. He joined the Macalester faculty in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Courses taught at Macalester include: Narratives of Alienation, Race &amp; Ethnicity in Japan, Japanese Film &amp; Animation, Translating Japanese, and Japanese 101.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"template":"","class_list":["post-97","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/asian-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/asian-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/asian-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/asian-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/asian-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/asian-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/97\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/asian-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/asian-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}