Faculty and Staff
Joseph Murphy
Associate Professor of Japanese
PhD, Cornell University
- 339 Pugh Hall
- murphy7312@ufl.edu
- 352.392.0275
- Homepage
Office Hours (none on campus)
- On leave for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013
Areas of Interest
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)
