Keisuke Nakajima (Jima) joined Johns Hopkins University in 2022 after finishing his BA in Classics at McGill University. Jima was born and raised in Japan for 16 years until he moved to Canada in 2015 and hopes to diversity the field by applying his Japanese perspective to his research. He is primarily interested in deaths, self-killings, and gore in entertainment. He wishes to explore through fictional representations of deaths how different cultures conceptualize and cope with our inevitable ends differently. Apart from deaths, his interests include: Ovid, Theocritus and pastoral tradition, theatrical adaption of ancient literature, Ethical Criticism and roles that fiction plays in human society, ancient and modern. In the future, he is looking forward to further engaging with Greek and Latin poetry both academically and creatively.

In his free time, Jima enjoys bouldering, inviting his friends to bouldering, and bouldering with his friends. He recently got into cycling and biked across the country from Baltimore to San Francisco in Summer 2023 to raise money for young adults with cancer.

He loves meeting and chatting with new people, so feel free to reach out to him via email or on his twitter @kei_classics.