Office: HMNSS 2500
Phone: (951) 827-1219
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E-mail: margherita [dot] long
[at] ucr [dot] edu

MARGHERITA LONG

Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0321

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., East Asian Studies, Princeton University, January 1998
• M.A., East Asian Studies, Princeton University, June 1993
• B.A., English, Amherst College, phi beta kappa, summa cum laude, 1989

EMPLOYMENT

• Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, UC Riverside, 2003-present
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, 2000-2001.
• Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo, 1997-2003.

PUBLICATIONS

• This Perversion Called Love: Tanizaki, Feminist Theory, Japan. Under contract with Stanford University Press.
  
  
•  “Two Ways to Play Fort-Da: With Tanizaki and Freud in Yoshino,” forthcoming in Perversion in Modern Japan: Experiments in Psychoanalysis and Literature, ed. Nina Cornyetz and Keith Vincent.  Under contract with Routledge.
  
  
• “Malice@Doll: Konaka, Specularization, and the Virtual Feminine,” forthcoming in Mechademia: An Academic Journal for Anime, Manga and the Fan Arts 2 (Fall 2007) 20 pages.
  
  
• “Nakagami and the Denial of Lineage: On Maternity, Abjection, and the Japanese Outcast Class,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 17.2 (Summer 2006) 1-32.
  
  
• “Nakagami, Tanizaki, and the ‘End of Kindai Bungaku’”. 15-page article based on keynote address, published within zadankai (round-table) discussion with Asada Akira, Karatani Kôjin, Tsushima Yûko, Watanabe Naomi, Takazawa Shûji, and Aoyama Shinji, “Nakagami and the “‘End of Modern Literature’.” In Waseda Bungaku 29.5 (November 2004) 22-53.
  
  
• “Feminist Film Theory: Osaka, Circa 1866,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 13.3 (Fall 2002) 24-63.
  
  
• “The Enjoyment of Japanese Culturalism,” positions east asia cultures critique 10.2 (Fall 2002) 431-469.
  
  
• [book review]  Nina Cornyetz, Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers.  In Pacific Affairs 70: 3 (Fall 2000) 449-450.
  
  
• [book review]  Jennifer Robertson, Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan and Lenore Manderson and Margaret Jolly, eds., Sites of Desire Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific.   Co-authored with Christine Marran.  In Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 27:2  (Winter 2002) 867-870.
  
  
• [translation]  “Komatopia.”  Translation of Natsume Fusanosuke, “Komatopia,” in Natsume Fusanosuke no mangagaku [the manga-ology of Natsume Fusanosuke. Forthcoming in Mechademia: An Academic Journal for Anime, Manga and the Fan Arts 3 (Fall 2008).
  
  
• [translation]  “In Range of the Critique of Orientalism.”  Translation of Kang Sangjung, “Datsu-orientalism no shikô,” in Deconstructing Nationality, ed. Brett de Bary, Iyotani Toshio, and Naoki Sakai (Ithaca: Cornell East Asian Monograph Series, 2005) 113-129.

HONORS and AWARDS

• University of California Humanities Research Institute Third Annual Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT III) “Technospheres: Futures of Thinking.” Senate Omnibus Grant for two-week seminar on digital humanities convened by David Theo Goldberg and Anne Balsamo, for my project on anime, virtual reality, and feminist theory. August 2006.
  
  
• University of California Riverside Center for Ideas and Society Faculty Resident Fellowship, for “Why Dolls?  Japanimation and the Virtual Feminine,” Winter Quarter 2005.
  
  
• Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Small Grant for “Filming Shunkin,” at UC Berkeley Pacific Film Archive, 2003
  
  
• Brown University, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women Postdoctoral Fellowship 2000-01 (accepted)
  
  
• Stanford University Institute for International Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies 2000-01 (declined)
  
  
• New York University, Visiting Scholar in East Asian Studies & Comparative Literature. Fall 1999
  
  
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, Tokyo University. 1994-95
  
  
• Japan Foundation Japanese Language Fellowship, Inter-University Center. Yokohama, 1993-94
  
  
• Mellon Foundation, Summer Travel Fellowship. Tokyo, Summer 1992, Summer 1996
  
  
• Amherst College, Kellogg Fellowship for Graduate Study in Modern Languages. 1991-1994

TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses at UC Riverside

• CPL/FVC021 “Introduction to Film, Literature, and Culture” SQ08
• JPN/AST/FVC021 “Introduction to Japanese Film” WQ04
• CPLT/WMST142J “Women’s Writing in Japan and Japanese America” SQ05
• JPN150 “Reading Japanese Women Writers” WQ04, WQ08
• JPN/AST034 “Manga and The Japanese Classics” SQ04, SQ07
• JPN101 “Third-Year Japanese” SQ04, SQ05, FQ05, SQ08
• CPLT/WMST142J “Self-Expression in Writing by Japanese and Japanese American Women” SQ2005
• JPN/AST152J “Classics and Canon: Modern Japanese Novels” FQ05, WQ07
• JPN110 “Advanced Reading in Japanese” WQ06, WQ08

Graduate Courses at UC Riverside

• CPLT215B “Issues in Contemporary Theory” [Japanimation, Feminist Theory, Digital Culture] SQ07
• CPLT215B “Issues in Contemporary Theory” [Guilt, Aggression and Subjectivity] SQ09

Undergraduate Courses At SUNY Buffalo

• COL280/ “The City in Literature: Tokyo” (F97)
• UGC211/ “American Pluralism: Readings in Asian American Literature” (F97, S98, S99)
• UGC112/ “World Civilizations from 1500” (S98, S2000)
• COL470-ENG261/ “Loving Japan: Fiction, Film, Memoir” (F98)
• COL317/ “Body as Text in Modern Japan” (F01) (F02)
• COL303-DMS 300/ “Fathers of Japanese Film” (S02)

Graduate Courses at SUNY Buffalo

• COL725/ “Fantasy Across Ethnicity: Reading Racial Identification” (F98)
• COL705/ “Introduction to Feminist Theory” (S99)
• COL721/ “Introduction to Comparative Studies” (F01)
• COL728/ “Sexual Difference: Case Study Anime” (F02)
• COL703/  “Glance, Gaze and Look in the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema” (S03)

CONFERENCE PAPERS & DISCUSSANT'S REMARKS

• “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Performativity But Were Afraid to Ask Tanizaki.” Association for Japanese Literature Studies Annual Meeting, Vancouver, August 2008 (proposed)
  
  
•  “On the Root Causes of Human Violence: Libido, Subjectivity and Japanese Militarism.” Colloquium on Violence and Religion Annual Conference, Riverside, June 2008
  
  
• “Nausicaa as Hyper-Girl.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 2008.
  
  
• Discussant for 13th Annual UCLA Graduate Symposium in Japanese Studies Panel “Debt and Gratitude” (Papers by George Solt and Lindsay Nelson) Los Angeles, May 2007
  
  
• Discussant for Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference Panel “Perversions of Japanese Film” (Papers by Jonathan Hall, Hori Hikari and Mizoguchi Akiko) Atlanta, March 2004
  
  
• “Rape and the Rashomon Effect.”  Organization for Asian Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 2004
  
  
•  “Konaka’s Mirror Stage: Anime, Alice, and the End of Psychoanalysis.”  Association for Japanese Literature Studies Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, November 2003
  
  
• “Are Otaku Naturally Selected? Some Feminist Implications.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, New York, March 2003
  
  
• “Nationalism, Nakagami, and Abjection: On Motherhood.”  Modern Japan Workshop at Brown University, Providence, November 2002
  
  
•  “Nakagami and Tanizaki, Knowing the Kii Penninsula.”  New York Conference on Asian Studies, Ithaca, October 2001
  
  
• “Okamoto Kanoko’s Body.”  University of Alberta Conference “Reading and Writing Japanese Women’s Texts,” Edmonton, August 2001
  
  
•  “Suffering Through Oriental Aesthetics.”  Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2001
  
  
• “Asian/American: Borders of the Pacific Century.”  University at Buffalo “Borders of the Americas” Conference, Buffalo, March 2000
  
  
• “Screen Memories: Wayne Wang, Chinese America, Postwar Impotence.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, April 1999
  
  
• “Perverting Imperial Perspectives: Tanizaki’s “In Praise of Shadows.” Buffalo / Toronto /York Center for Asia Pacific Studies, “East Asian Perspectives on World Order,” Buffalo, May 1998
  
  
• “What Does the Masochist See? Tanizaki’s Shunkinshô and Readerly Disavowal.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 1997

LECTURES & TALKS

• “Feminist Approaches to Japanese ‘Superflat’ Art.”  University of California Riverside Department of Women’s Studies Brown Bag Series, Riverside, May 2007
  
  
•  “Yoshinokuzu’s Fort-Da Games.”  UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Colloquium, February 2005 and UC Berkeley Center For Japanese Studies Colloquium, February 2006.
  
  
•  “Nakagami and Tanizaki.” Kumano University Summer Seminar Annual Meeting. In Japanese.  Shingu, August 2004.
  
  
•  “Nakagami, Irigaray, and the Way of Breath.”  For Spring Lecture Series “Other Orientalisms,” Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Brown University, Providence, March 2004.
  
  
• “Chapped Hands and Torn Fingertips: On Papermaking, Motherhood and the Imperial Line in Tanizaki’s Yoshinokuzu.” Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at Riverside, January 2003
  
  
• “A New Twist on Ritual Passage.”  University of Chicago Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Chicago, January 2002
  
  
• “Blindness, Sasuke, Deleuze.”  McGill University Department of East Asian Studies, Montreal, April 2001
  
  
• “Tanizaki’s Zuihitsu and Cultural Suffering.”  Department of East Asian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, February 2001
  
  
• “On Genbun’itchi, Jokes, and Anxiety.”  Discussant for East Asian Faculty Workshop Presentation by Keith Vincent, New York University, New York, December 2000
  
  
• “Feminism and Psychoanalysis?” English Department, Seoul National University, Seoul, June 2000
  
  
• “Japanese Body, Chinese Box: Projection in John Okada and Wayne Wang.” Fordham University Women’s Studies Series, New York, November 1999

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

• Organizer, “Hyper-Girls and Gothic Lolitas: Feminist Readings in Subculture.” Panel with discussant Kotani Mari, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 2008
  
  
• Organizer, “Tanizaki and Empire.” Panel with discussant Tomiko Yoda, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2001
  
  
• Organizer, with Elizabeth Weed and Rogaia Abusharaf: “The Other Emotion.”  Roundtable with Rey Chow, Tomo Hattori, Anne Anlin Cheng, Richard Shweder, and Catherine Lutz, February 2001
  
  
• Organizer, with Elizabeth Grosz: “Matters of Representation: Feminism, Theory and the Arts.” Buffalo Comparative Literature Annual Conference, March-April 2000. 
  
  
• Organizer, “The Politics of Nô’s Restaging.” Symposium on post-Ashikaga Nô, in conjunction with performance/workshops by Kanze School actors at Buffalo’s Department of Theater and Dance, February 1999
  
  
• Organizer,  “At the Intersection of Feminism and Queer Theory: Orienting Maleness in Modern Japanese Literature.” Panel with discussant Asada Akira, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 1997
  
  
• Organizer, with Tiana Norgren: “Guest Feminisms: Workshop on Women’s Studies Research Within the Japanese Academy.” Women’s Education Center, Saitama, November, 1994

JOURNAL and GRANT REFEREEING

• Peer Reviewer, Japanese Studies (Australia), Summer 2005-
  
  
• Peer Reviewer, US-Japan Women’s Journal, Summer 2004-
  
  
• Peer Reviewer, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Fall 2002-
  
  
• Peer Reviewer, SSHRC of Canada Research and Dissemination Grants Program Fall 2002-
              
• Peer Reviewer, positions east asia cultures critique, Summer 2002-
  
  
• Peer Reviewer, American Literary History, Spring 2000-

SERVICE and COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES at UC RIVERSIDE

• Mellon Workshop, “Affect, Technics, Ethics,” faculty member with Kenneth Rogers, Victor Zordan, Paolo Chagas and Marguerite Waller, led by James Tobias, 2008-
  
  
• University of California 5-Year Multi-Campus Research Group in Japanese Visual Culture member, 2008-
  
  
• Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages Non-Senate Faculty Internal Review Committee, with Yang Ye, 2006-07, 2007-08
  
  
• Job Search Committees
  
  
• Lecturer in Japanese Language, Summer 2003
  
  
• Tenure-Track Position in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory, Fall 2003
  
  
• Lecturer in Korean Language, Summer 2004
  
  
• Tenure-Track Position Japanese Literature, Fall 2007
  
  
• Senior Position in Science Fiction, Fall 2007
  
  
• Lecturer in Japanese Language and Literature, Spring 2008
  
  
• Course Scheduling for the Asian Languages and Cultures Major
  
  
• Japanese Language and Literature Courses, 2006-07
  
  
• Japanese Literature Courses, 2007-08
  
  
• Faculty Steering Committee, Joint University of California/International Christian University Initiative for a new Education Abroad Program, 2005-
  
  
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Integrity Committee/Student Conduct Committee, 2004-2005
  
  
• Website development for Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, with John Kim, 2004-05, 2005-06

EXPERIENCE in JAPAN

• Osaka: Kansai University of Foreign Studies, Summer 2003
  
  
• Tokyo: Tokyo University, Summer 1996; Academic Year, 1994-95
  
  
• Yokohama: Inter-University Center, Summer 1992, Academic Year 1993-94
  
  
• Mie Prefecture: JET Program, Yokkaichi Technical High School, 1989-90
  
  
• Kyoto: Dôshisha University, Associated Kyoto Program, Academic Year 1987-88