Gerald Figal
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Department of History & Asian Studies Program Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235-­‐1802 vox: 615-­‐322-­‐4712 fax: 615-­‐322-­‐2305 !
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Home: 4013 Vailwood Drive Nashville, TN 37215 (615) 829-­‐6889 gerald.fi[email protected] Curriculum vitae (updated 07/25/14) !
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Educa9on University of Chicago, Ph.D., East Asian Languages and CivilizaXons, Ph.D. thesis: “ The Folk and the FantasXc in Japanese Modernity: dialogues on reason and imaginaXon in late nineteenth and early twenXeth century Japan” Mentors: H.D. Harootunian (History) & William Sibley (Literature) Inter-­‐University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama University of Chicago, M.A., East Asian Languages and CivilizaXons University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A., History and ComparaXve Literature, Highest Honors !
March 1992 1988-­‐1989 June 1987 March 1985 Foreign languages: Japanese and French !
Employment Professor of History and Japanese Cultural Studies, Vanderbilt University 2013-­‐present Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University 2003-­‐2013 Interim Director, East Asian Studies Program, Vanderbilt University 2005-­‐2006 Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware 2001-­‐2003 Assistant Professor of History, University of Delaware 1996-­‐2001 Assistant Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College 1992-­‐1996 !
Member of the AssociaXon for Asian Studies; European AssociaXon for Japanese Studies !
Honors & Awards !
Honorable MenXon, Best ArXcle in Cri$cal Asian Studies Mellon Fellow, University of Chicago Honorary Century Fellow, University of Chicago Henry Hayase Award, Inter-­‐University Center for Japanese Language Valedictorian, University of California, Santa Barbara Phi Beta Kappa (as Junior), University of California, Santa Barbara Chancellor’s Scholarship, University of California, Santa Barbara !
2001 1985-­‐1992 1985-­‐1992 1989 1985 1983 1980-­‐1985 !
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Books: !
Research Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Lihlefield, 2012). !
Civiliza$on and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999). !
Ar2cles in refereed journals: !
“Monstrous Media and Delusional ConsumpXon in Kon Satoshi’s Paranoia Agent” Mechademia vol. 5 (Fall 2010), 139-­‐155. !
“Between War and Tropics: Heritage Tourism in Postwar Okinawa” The Public Historian, Vol. 30, no. 2 (Spring 2008), 83-­‐107. !
“Bones of ContenXon: The GeopoliXcs of ‘Sacred Ground’ in Postwar Okinawa,” Diploma$c History, Vol. 31, No. 1 (January 2007), 81-­‐109. !
“Waging Peace on Okinawa,” Cri$cal Asian Studies, vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring 2001), 37-­‐69. Cited as Honorable MenXon for Best CAS ArXcle for 2001. !
“Historical Sense and CommemoraXve Sensibility at Okinawa’s Cornerstone of Peace,” Posi$ons: East Asia Cultures Cri$que vol. 5, no. 3 (Winter 1997), 745-­‐778. !
“How to jibunshi: Making and MarkeXng Self-­‐histories of Shōwa among the Masses in Postwar Japan,” Journal of Asian Studies vol. 55, no. 4 (November 1996), 902-­‐933. !
Book chapters: !
“Waging Peace on Okinawa,” in Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power edited by Laura Hein and Mark Selden, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Lihlefield, 2003), 65-­‐98. Revised version of arXcle in Cri$cal Asian Studies. !
Ar2cles in conference proceedings: !
"The Bahle of Tropical Ryukyu Kingdom Tourist Okinawa." In David L. Howell and James C. Baxter, eds. History and Folklore Studies in Japan , 105-­‐123. InternaXonal Symposium in North America 2002. Kyoto: InternaXonal Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2006. !
“The QuesXon of Monsters and Ancestor Worship” Select Papers, Volume 10: Produc$ons of Culture in Japan (Winter 1995), 29-­‐59. Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. !
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Book reviews: !
“Review of Mark Driscoll Absolute Ero$c, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895-­‐1945,” Journal of Japanese Studies, 38:1 (Winter 2012). !
“Review of Michael Dylan Foster Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai,”Journal of Japanese Studies, 36:1 (Winter 2010). !
“Review of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fic$on from Origins to Anime,” Monumenta Nipponica, 63:2 (Fall 2008). !
“Review of Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjec$vity,” Journal of Asian Studies, 64:3 (August 2005). !
“Review of Iden$ty and Resistance in Okinawa,” Journal of Japanese Studies, 30:1 (Winter 2004). !
“Review of Censoring History: Ci$zenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States” Journal of Japanese Studies, 28:1 (Winter 2002). !
“Review of Harukor: An Ainu Woman’s Tale” Cri$cal Asian Studies, 33:2 (2001). “Review of Takarazuka: Sexual Poli$cs and Popular Culture in Modern Japan” Journal of Asian Studies, 59:3 (August 2000). !
“Review of Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialec$cs of Memory” Monumenta Nipponica, 55:1 (Spring 2000). !
“Review of Cultural Difference, Media Memories: Anglo-­‐American Images of Japan” Pacific Historical Review, 68:1 (February 1999). !
“Review of Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir” Bulle$n of Concerned Asian Scholars, 28:3-­‐4 (1996). !
“Review of Japanese Biographies: Life Histories, Life Cycles, Life Stages” Journal of Asian Studies, 52:4 (November 1993). !
Work-­‐in-­‐progress: !
“Spirit Circuitry and Human AhenuaXon in Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Kairo” ArXcle for submission to peer-­‐reviewed journal. !
“The Medium is the Monster: Supernatural Circuits and Consumer Fantasies in Contemporary Japan” Book project. !
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Invited Presenta2ons: !
“The Discovery of Beachscape in Post-­‐Reversion Okinawa” (Public talk and a related workshop) Originally wrihen for the internaXonal conference “40 Years since reversion: NegoXaXng the Okinawan difference in Japan today” at the University of Vienna InsXtute of Japanese Studies, November 2013, but postponed due to weather unXl January 2013. !
“Monstrous Media in Kon Satoshi’s Paranoia Agent” University of Pennsylvania, Center for East Asian Studies November 16, 2010. !
“The Medium is the Monster” Monsters and the Monstrous in Modern Japanese History Workshop Indiana University, March 22-­‐23, 2008. !
“Masses of Monsters” at the panel discussion “ The World is Cruel When It’s Changing: Edo, Imamura, and Eijanaika,” part of a retrospecXve film series “A Man Vanishes: The Legacy of Shohei Imamura” at the Freer Gallery, Washington, D.C., December 9, 2007. !
“War and Bases under the Tourist Gaze in Postwar Okinawa” Harvard Modern Asia Series, Harvard University, December 1, 2006. !
“Bases as Tourist Sites in Okinawa” 5th InternaXonal Conference on Okinawan Studies, Venice, Italy, September 14-­‐16, 2006. !
Discussant for “Shibusawa Keizo and the PossibiliXes of Social Science in Modern Japan” Society for East Asian Anthropology Conference, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, July 12-­‐17 2006. !
“U.S. Military Bases as Tourist Sites in Okinawa” University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Lecture Series, March 17, 2005. !
“Bones of ContenXon: The GeopoliXcs of ‘Sacred Ground’ in Postwar Okinawa” University of California, Santa Cruz, February 26, 2005. !
Roundtable Discussion on Teaching Japanese Popular Culture In Godzilla’s Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage Conference University of Kansas, October 29, 2004. !
“Serial Experiments Shurijō: Between Archives and ArXfacts at Okinawa’s Premier Tourist Site” University of Illinois, Champaign-­‐Urbana, September, 29, 2004. !
“Let’s Get Physical: Archives and ArXfacts in Okinawa” Methods and Metaphors in Japanese Studies Conference, University of Chicago, May 21-­‐22, 2004. !
“Tropical Escapes: AfforestaXon and the Tourist Gaze in Postwar Okinawa” Okinawa: Island Paradox conference at University of Kansas, March 6-­‐8, 2003. !
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“The GeopoliXcs of ‘Sacred Ground’ in Postwar Okinawa’ East Asian Studies Seminar, InsXtute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, January 14, 2003. !
“The Bahle of Tropical Ryukyu Kingdom Tourist Okinawa”
The InternaXonal Symposium “Historiography and Japanese Consciousness of Values and Norms: History and Folklore Studies” at the InternaXonal Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan, January 15-­‐17, 2002. !
“Walking the Talk: Peace (dis)courses on Okinawa” Reischauer InsXtute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University, December 8, 2000. !
“Waging Peace on Okinawa (part II)” Modern Japan Workshop, New York University, April 26, 2000. !
“Waging Peace on Okinawa” Washington-­‐Southeast Regional Modern Japan Seminar, January 29, 2000. !
“Monsters and CivilizaXon” Paper for Columbia University Modern Japan Workshop, February 1998. !
“Historical Sense and CommemoraXve Sensibility at Okinawa’s ‘Cornerstone of Peace’” UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Lecture Series, February 3, 1997. !
“Placed Names: a/historical a/effects of Okinawa’s ‘Cornerstone of Peace’” Columbia University East Asian InsXtute Lecture Series, March 1996. !
“How to jibunshi: The WriXng of Self/Histories Among the Masses in Postwar Japan” University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Lecture Series, March 17, 1994. !
“Supernatural Ideology in the Meiji Enlightenment: Monsters, Madness, & Blood-­‐Sucking Strangers” Lecture and seminar on “Fantasizing Folk Beliefs,” February 21, 1991, Carlton College. Conference presenta2ons: !
“Spirit Circuitry and Human AhenuaXon in Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Kairo” 14th Annual InternaXonal Conference of the European AssociaXon for Japanese Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 27-­‐30, 2014. !
“Forgerng Shōwa: Furusato Okinawa and the Ryukyu RestoraXon” 13th Annual InternaXonal Conference of the European AssociaXon for Japanese Studies, Tallinn, Estonia, August 24-­‐27, 2011. !
Discussant for panel “Women in Transit: Gender and Mobility in Early Modern Japan” at the AssociaXon for Asian Studies Annual MeeXng, Honolulu, April 1, 2011. !
Discussant for the panel “ TransnaXonal NarraXves of Memory in German and Japanese Cultures” at German Studies AssociaXon Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., October 8-­‐11, 2009. 5
Discussant for the panel “Natural Disaster, Media and ModernizaXon: New Media and Two Kanto Earthquakes” at the Early Japan Network adjunct meeXng to the AssociaXon for Asian Studies Annual MeeXng, Chicago, March 26, 2009. !
“History Remixed: Amalgam, Anachronism and Analogy in Samurai Champloo” 12th Annual InternaXonal Conference of the European AssociaXon for Japanese Studies, Lecce, Italy, Sept. 20-­‐23, 2008. !
“War Memories and Tropical Visions: The TransformaXon of Culturescapes in Postwar Okinawa” 2nd Annual Transdisciplinary Literary and Cultural Studies Conference, FaXh University, Istanbul May 24-­‐26, 2007. !
“Bio-­‐Buildings and the Problem of Human-­‐Nature in the AnimaXon of Miyazaki Hayao” 59th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah, GA, April 26-­‐30, 2006. !
“Kokusai for Sale: The Tourist MarkeXng of the ‘InternaXonal’ on Naha’s Kokusai-­‐dōri” AssociaXon for Asian Studies Annual MeeXng in San Francisco, April 6-­‐9 2006. !
“NaXonalizaXon and DenaXonalizaXon of ‘Sacred Ground’ in Postwar Okinawa” European AssociaXon for Japanese Studies Conference, Vienna, Austria, Aug. 31-­‐Sept. 4, 2005. !
“Tropical Tropes: An Unnatural Natural History of Flora in Postwar Okinawa” Cultural Typhoon Conference in Okinawa, University of the Ryukyus, July 9-­‐11, 2004. !
Discussant for “Performing Okinawa: IdenXty, PoliXcs, and Performance in/out of Okinawa” AssociaXon for Asian Studies Annual MeeXng in San Diego, March 2004. !
“Bones of ContenXon: Local and NaXonal Stakes in Okinawa’s ‘Sacred Ground’” AssociaXon for Asian Studies Annual MeeXng in New York, March 2003. !
“Reversion to Ryukyu: Heritage Tourism in Post-­‐Reversion Okinawa” American Historical AssociaXon Annual MeeXng in San Francisco, January 3-­‐6, 2002. !
“Caves and Graves; Or, How the Bahle of Okinawa Almost Ruined Our VacaXon” Poster session for the Annual MeeXng of the AssociaXon for Asian Studies, San Diego, California, March 9-­‐12, 2000. !
“Monsters and CivilizaXon” Annual MeeXng of the AssociaXon for Asian Studies in Washington, D.C., March 26-­‐29, 1998. Also presented at the Mid-­‐AtlanXc Region AssociaXon for Asian Studies at the University of Delaware in October 1998. !
“‘The Lessons of History’ at an Okinawan Peace (War) Memorial” American Historical AssociaXon Annual MeeXng in Seahle, January 8-­‐11, 1998. !
“Placed Names: a/historical a/effects of Okinawa’s ‘Cornerstone of Peace’” Annual MeeXng of the AssociaXon for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 11-­‐14, 1996. 6
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“Summoning Okinawa’s Past: history as witness in the trial of Chibana Shōichi” Western Conference of the AssociaXon for Asian Studies, Lewiston, Idaho, September 29-­‐30, 1995. !
“Shadowy dragons & doppelgängers: Akutagawa Ryûnosuke and the double jeopardy of wriXng” NarraXve: An InternaXonal Conference, Park City, Utah, April 20-­‐23, 1995 and for Annual MeeXng of the AssociaXon for Asian Studies, Washington D.C., April 6-­‐9, 1995. !
“The Work of Jibunshi in an Age of Cultural ReproducXon” Annual MeeXng of the AssociaXon for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 25-­‐28, 1993. !
“Fact, Tact, and Phantasmagoria in Minakata Kumagusu’s Theory of Culture” Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Iowa, September 1991. !
“From tengu to senzo: The Hidden World in the WriXng of Yanagita Kunio” Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Indiana, November 1990. !
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Teaching New courses introduced to Vanderbilt curriculum: HIST 205: Play and Pleasure in Early Modern Japan HIST 286c: Tokyo: History and Image HIST 200: History and Memory HIST 295: US OccupaXon of Japan ASIA 115F: Self & Cyborg in Japanese AnimaXon ASIA 211: Popular Culture in Modern Japan ASIA 212: ExploraXons in Japanese AnimaXon ASIA 213W: Media Monsters in Contemporary Japan HONS 186: Transpacific Cyberpunk Also: the versions of HIST 108: Premodern Japan and HIST 206: Japan’s Recent Past that I rotate in teaching with Professor Igarashi are wholly my own. Independent Study courses (2) and Honors-­‐Enriched courses (2). !
Graduate students: Lisa Lackney, Modern Japanese Cultural History, 2011-­‐present. !
Training grants received: Course Development Grant for EUS 237 from Vanderbilt Center for Ethics, 2008. !
Undergraduate research projects supervised: Helen Li, History Honors Thesis, 2012-­‐13 Hyunji Jee, History Honors Thesis, 2011-­‐12 Cole Garreh, Asian Studies Honors Thesis, 2011-­‐12 Reader for Kevin Duong, PoliXcal Science Honors Thesis, 2009 !
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