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

MARGHERITA LONG
Assistant Professor, Japanese/Comparative Literature
Ph.D. in East Asian Studies, Princeton University, 1998

Margherita Long’s fields of study include modern Japanese literature, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and Japanese visual culture. She taught in the Comparative Literature department at SUNY Buffalo before coming to UC Riverside in 2003. During a Fulbright year at Tokyo University in 1995 she studied with Professors Komori Yoichi and Ueno Chizuko. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University in 2001.

She is the author of This Perversion Called Love: Reading Tanizaki, Feminist Theory and Freud (Stanford UP 2009).  She has published articles on the problem of abjection in the Japanese underclass writer Nakagami Kenji and on the virtual feminine in Konaka Chiaki's anime. Currently she is working on two book projects: a collection of essays on anime called Animating the Virtual Feminine, and a study writers in the Article Nine Association called Ethics, Aggression and the Viability of the Anti-War Clause. The latter project reads the debate over Japan's postwar "peace constitution" in the context of literary contributions to the philosophy of violence and theories of aggression and self-sacrifice.

Professor Long's Curriculum Vitae.