Dr. John J. Han is Professor of English & Creative Writing, Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Theology, and editor of Intégrité. A native of South Korea, he earned an M.A. in English from Kansas State University (1991) and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1998), becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2008. He is the author, editor, co-editor, or translator of 35 books, including Wise Blood: A Re-Consideration (Rodopi, 2011), The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature (Peter Lang, 2015), Worlds Gone Awry: Essays on Dystopian Fiction (McFarland, 2018), and Certainty and Ambiguity: Essays on the Moral Imagination of Mystery Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).

Hundreds of his articles have also appeared in various journals, essay collections, and reference books. The venues include Literature and Belief, The Steinbeck Review, Steinbeck Studies, John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries, The Moral Philosophy of John Steinbeck, Kansas English, Mark Twain Studies, Journal of Transnational American Studies, Journal of Ethnic American Literature, Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies, Philological Review, POMPA, Journal of Bunka Gakuen University, New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement, The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, Irish Women Writers, American History through Literature (1870-1920), and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature.

In addition, Dr. Han has published more than 2,400 poems in periodicals and anthologies worldwide, including Cave Region Review (featured poet of the year 2012), Chrysanthemum (Germany), Drifting Sands: A Journal of Haibun and Tanka Prose, Elder Mountain, Failed Haiku, Frogpond, Kansas English, The Laurel Review, Modern Haiku, Simply Haiku (chosen as the world’s sixth-finest English-language haiku poet for 2011), Steinbeck Studies (Japan), Valley Voices (Pushcart-nominated), Wales Haiku Journal (nominated for the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award), and World Haiku Review (Japan and India). Finally, he served as the editor of Dawn Returns: The Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2022.