Masui Shitsuyo

1998-present Sophia University Institute of American and Canadian Studies, Fellow
2004-2005 Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University, Visiting scholar
2011-2012 History of American Civilization, Harvard University, Visiting scholar
2013-Present Jonathan Edwards Center Japan, International Christian University, Board member
2018-2019 Department of History, Harvard University, Visiting scholar

Early American Literature and Intellectual History (17th - 19th century) are my major study fields. I teach 19th century American Literature (Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson, Sedgwick and Henry James) in undergraduate classes and read primary texts from the Early American Intellectual and Religious History in graduate-school courses.

(Subject of research)
Study of Nathaniel Hawthorne and American Popular Religion
Occupied Japan
New England Puritanism and Higher Education
American Society and the Public Sphere
The Development of the Transatlantic Calvinist Diaspora and Its Relations to the Puritan Culture
Culture of Publishing in Early America
19th century Evangelical Movements and American Civil Society