He received his Ph.D. in Japanese literature and cultural history from Stanford University in 2013. Haag’s research explores the interplay between nationalism, colonialism, and violence in the language, literature and culture of the Japanese empire, focusing specifically on the circulation of narratives of colonized Korea and the “treasonous” resistance of Korean subjects. He is currently completing a book manuscript, Fear and Loathing in Imperial Japan: The Cultures of Korean Terror, which critically interrogates how the colonizers’ fear of Korean crime and “terrorism” inflected metropolitan vocabularies, images, and narratives in the decades following Japan’s annexation of Korea.