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

Margherita Long works on modern Japanese literature and film. Her first book, That Perversion Called Love: Tanizaki and the Sex of Prewar Japan explores narcissism, fetishism, and masochism in the 1930s writings of Tanizaki Jun’ichirô. The book argues that for Tanizaki, perversion was a symptom of the impossibility of any intimacy save the traumatic kind his contemporary Freud, half a world away, was calling “love”. Using feminist and psychoanalytic theory, the book traces the problem of sexual difference through the works of several of Tanizaki’s most interesting readers: critic Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), philosopher Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960), friend/rival Satô Haruo (1892-1964), filmmaker Shindô Kaneto (1912-), and novelist Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992).

Professor Long’s publications include “The Enjoyment of Japanese Culturalism” (positions east asia cultures critique, Fall 2002), “Feminist Film Theory, Osaka circa 1868” (differences, Fall 2002) and “Nakagami and the End of Kindai Bungaku” (Waseda Bungaku, November 2004). Her next project focuses on the figure of Alice in Wonderland and virtual femininity in the work of Japanese anime screenwriter Konaka Chiaki.

Professor Long's Curriculum Vitae.