Faculty and Staff

Susan Furukawa

Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies

Programs/Departments

  • Japanese Studies
  • Languages & Literatures
  • Japan at Earlham

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Indiana University
  • M.A., Stanford University
  • B.A., DePauw University

Contact Info

Campus Mail
Drawer 13

Phone
765-983-1649

E-mail
furuksu@earlham.edu

Office
Landrum Bolling Center

Office Hours
By appointment.

Selected Courses

Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature Introduction to the Study of Japan Japanese Popular Culture in Fiction and Film Samurai: Then and Now Traditions in Japanese Literature Women in Japanese Literature

Research Projects

"The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Taikoki and the Reinterpretation of Japan's Past." Ph.D. diss, Indiana University, 2012. Book review of Mary E. Berry’s Japan in Print in Media History 13, no. 2 (2007), 290-292. “The Perfect Hero: Male Protagonists in Uno Chiyo.” Acta Eruditiorum, Saga Medical School, no. 20 (2001), 57-67. “Knowing Where to Start: Rethinking Comparisons between Japanese and American Education.” Journal of the Faculty of Culture and Education, Saga National University, 6, no. 1 (2001), 337-348.