Dean Anthony Brink

Originally from Tacoma, Washington State, Dean Anthony Brink teaches literature and thought at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan. His poetry and fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. His research publications include Philosophy of Science and The Kyoto School: An Introduction to Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime and Tosaka Jun (Bloomsbury, 2021), Poetics and Justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan: Configuring Change and Entitlement (Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), and Japanese Poetry and Its Publics: From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima (Routledge, 2018). Current research explores ecological issues in Japanese political and religious thought, beginning with the writings of agronomist Miyaoi Yasuo (1797-1858), including a study of Japanese forestry in Taiwan, and finally treating contemporary discourse on technoanimism and related topics.