John J. Han is Professor of English and Creative Writing and Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Theology at Missouri Baptist University, and Senior Editor of the K-GSP Forum.
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Born in South Korea and now a naturalized U.S. citizen, he earned an M.A. in English from Kansas State University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He also edits Intégrité, Missouri Baptist University’s journal of faith and learning.
Dr. Han is the author, editor, or translator of 38 books, published by Rodopi, Peter Lang, McFarland, Bloomsbury Academic, and other presses. He has published hundreds of scholarly articles and more than 3,000 poems, mostly haiku, in journals and anthologies around the world, and is internationally recognized as one of the finest haiku poets writing in English.
Research Topics
Dystopian fiction
Mystery fiction and the moral imagination
Flannery O’Connor, John Steinbeck, and Mark Twain
Ozarks literature
Asian literature
Asian American literature
African American literature
Moral philosophy in literature
Death and dying in literature
Haiku poetics and creative writing
Selected Books
Wise Blood: A Re-Consideration (Rodopi, 2011)
The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature (Peter Lang, 2015)
Worlds Gone Awry: Essays on Dystopian Fiction (McFarland, 2018)
Certainty and Ambiguity: Essays on the Moral Imagination of Mystery Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)
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