Michael Facius

Michael is a historian with research interests in the early modern and modern cultural history of Japan in its regional, transnational and global contexts. He is particularly fascinated by the changing patterns of knowledge exchange and circulation and the history of language and translation. Currently he is working on a book project on the functions and uses of Edo-period history in modern Japan.
Michael received his PhD in Global History and Japanese Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in 2016. He was a British Academy Newton International Fellow at the Centre for Transnational History, University College London from 2018-2020. He holds diplomas in college teaching and e-teaching and has taught and supervised in German, English and Japanese in Japanese Studies, East Asian Studies, History, Global History, Transnational Studies and Chinese Health and Humanity at Freie Universität Berlin, University College London, the University of Tokyo and during ERASMUS lectureships at Leiden and Cambridge.