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Jonathan M. Hall
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
Assistant Professor, Film & Media Studies
Assistant Professor, International Center for Writing and Translation

Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz 2003 History of Consciousness
 
Graduate Programs Visual Studies
 
Research Interests:
Japan Studies; Cinema Studies; Psychoanalytic Criticism
 
Research Summary:
My current book project, "Unwilling Subjects: Fantastic Politics and the Japanese Postwar" maps how concepts of fantasy, perversion, and sublimation were used to probe the legacies of post-fascism and neo-imperialism by postwar Japanese literary and cinematic avant-gardes.
 
Professional Associations
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Modern Language Association
Association for Asian Studies
 
Selected Publications:
  Journal Articles, Book Chapters, etc.
  •“Area Studies at the Bedroom Door: Queer Theory, Japan, and the Case of the Missing Fantasy,” Japanese Studies 23: 2 (September 2003). 205-212.

•Book Review. Garrett Stewart, Between Film and Screen: Modernism’s Photo Synthesis. Documentary Box 19 (Autumn 2002): 31-32. •"Japan's Progressive Sex: Male Homosexuality, National Competition, and the Cinema," in Andrew Grossman, ed., Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade, New York: Harrington Park Press, 2000. 31-82.
 

Contact Information

     Campus Address
     Jonathan M. Hall
University of California, Irvine
Dept of Comparative Literature
304 Humanities Instructional Building
Irvine, CA 92697-2651
Mail Code: 2651
     Campus phone: (949) 824-9778
     Campus phone: (949) 824-2916
     Email: jmhall@uci.edu
 
Date last modified: 04/17/2007
 
 
 
Other Positions:
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Curator (with Po-Chen Tsai)
Queerly Chinese Cinemas, Univesrity of Chicago, May 2003
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Curator (with Michelle Puetz)
JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film & Video, 1955-now, Fall 2004
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