100 Years of the American Dream

Michael Kearney is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Kogakuin University, Japan. He received his PhD in Literary and Critical Theory from the University of Limerick, Ireland, and has published articles and chapters on such topics as identity formation, literature, auditory art, retinal art, and philosophy. He is the editor of From Conflict to Recognition: Moving Multiculturalism Forward and the author of Four Letter Words (a book of poetry), and he frequently contributes texts, retinal art, and auditory art to the magazine One Imperative. He is also the founder of The Symbolic Order Project, a collaborative venture examining the intersections of image, sound, and text.