Todd Joseph Miles Holden
Todd Joseph Miles Holden (also known as T.J.M. Holden and Todd Holden) is an
American-born
social scientist,
essayist,
philosopher, and
novelist. He was the first
tenured foreign professor at
Tohoku University, one of
Asia’s elite universities, where he taught for 26 years. His scholarship has been multi- and
trans-disciplinary, embracing
globalization,
media studies,
cultural studies,
semiotics,
advertising,
television,
Japanese popular culture,
sociology,
cultural anthropology,
political communication,
gender,
identity, and digital youth. Between 2000 and 2009 he was a contributor to the international webzine
PopMatters, writing a regular column on Japanese popular culture called ''ReDotPop'', and creating ''PM''’s first blog, ''Peripatetic Postcards''. In 2011 he published a book by the same name, bearing the subtitle "the journey of life through 25 of the world's cities". Recent work has included literary treatments of the
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami,
dystopia, philosophical detection,
comedy and
caper.
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