Category: WRITER
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Marlen a.k.a “ThePerfumeCritic” in MensJournal.com
Marlen has an alter-ego, “ThePerfumeCritic”! Read his take on ten, great male fragrances for 2013 in MensJournal.com. Read the article HERE.
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PhD Research: Language & Identity
“…I ask him if he is ‘out’ and he looks at me, moves his head slightly forward and asks, ‘Pardon?’” “Are you out of the closet?” I explain. He shakes his head from side to side a little, leans in and says slowly, “I’m not gay in Japanese, I’m only gay in English.” The above…
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Workshop: Feminist Communitarian Ethical Frameworks
“presumes a researcher who builds a reciprocal,collaborative, trusting, and friendly relations with the persons he orshe is studying.” (Denzin, 2003, p. xii) INTRO: While planning my dissertation project, a narrative examinationof the significance of English language and communication in the livesof self-identified queer Japanese, I often considered the difficultiesinherent in being a researcher from the…
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Marlen’s Dissertation Proposal
Discovering Voices, Discovering Selves: Queer sexuality in Japan and English language use Marlen Harrison Dissertation Proposal (working) Purpose A 1928 manuscript in The English Journal declared, “English has become so much a part of the Japanese people in the last 50 years that it has rightly been called the second language of the empire” (Crocker,…
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Blinded by Beleaf
Image by Grant Osborne Osaka, Japan – A trip to the Body Shop proved near fatal for one American man on Tuesday when a bottle of their “Beleaf”fragrance sprayed sideways into the right eye of Marlen Harrison, an American who claims to be a university professor. Harrison, a self-described fragrance addict whose sole purpose for…