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Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures

 

Joseph Murphy
Associate Professor

PhD, Cornell University
   
Office: 339 Pugh Hall
Phone: 352-392-0275
Office Hours: no Summer 2008 office hours
   
E-mail: <jmurphy@aall.ufl.edu>
Homepage:
<http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jmurphy>

I have a BS in mechanical engineering and advanced degrees in modern Japanese literature and film. I am currently an associate professor at the University of Florida.

Selected Publications:

Book:
2002. The Metaphorical Circuit: Negotiating the Gap Between Literature and Science in 20th Century Japan.

Articles:
2001. "Natsume Sôseki's Bungakuron: Toward a General Economy of Literature and Science," Monnet, Livia, ed. New Critical Perspectives on Twentieth Century Japanese Thought, Montreal: University of Montreal Press: 379-408.

1999. "Economies of Culture: The Taisho Bundan Dallies with the Movies"
Japan Forum (Special Issue on Visuality in Modern Japan), v. 11, #1 (1999), 5-22.

1998. "The Fan as a Figure in the Negotiation between Literature and Film in 1920's Japan, " Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques (Rethinking Urban and Mass Culture in 1920' and 1930' Japan), v. LIII, #2, 353-370.

1998. "Brownian Movement in Recent Japanese Cinema"Post Script, Special Issue on Contemporary Japanese Cinema, v. 18, #1, pp. 38-51.

1996. "Visual Pleasure in the Japanese Cinema: Mizoguchi, Kinugasa and the Melodrama of Izumi Kyoka," in Mizoguchi the Master, Cinemateque/Japan Foundation.

Classes Taught:
JPN 4930 Media and Popular Culture in Japan
JPN 4930 Special Topics courses
JPT 3120 Modern Japanese Fiction in Translation (Fall term)
JPT 3121 Contemporary Japanese Fiction: Postwar to Postmodern (Spring)
JPT 3391 Introduction to Japanese Film (alternating Spring terms)
JPT 3500 Introduction to Japanese Culture (Fall)
JPW 4130 Fourth Year Readings in Japanese Literature (Fall)
JPW 4131 Japanese Texts and Contexts (Spring)