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Julia Bullock
Assistant Professor
of Japanese Language and Literature
| E-mail: | jbullo2@emory.edu |
| Address: |
Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures 532 Kilgo Circle Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322 |
| Building: | Modern Languages |
| Telephone: | 404 727 2168 |
| Fax: | 404 712 8511 |
About
Dr. Bullock received an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Japanese Language and Literature from Stanford University. She specializes in modern Japanese literature from the Meiji period (beginning 1868) to the present, with additional interests in gender and feminist studies, history, film and popular culture. She is the author of The Other Women’s Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women’s Fiction, 1960-1973 (forthcoming, University of Hawai’i Press). This study analyzes the work of three prominent members of the 1960s “boom” in writing by Japanese women Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Kurahashi Yumiko¡Xas an avant-garde literary challenge to hegemonic discourses of femininity embedded in the high economic growth economy of that decade. Focusing on four tropes persistently employed by these writers to protest oppressive gender stereotypes¡Xthe masculine gaze as disciplinary mechanism, feminist misogyny, “odd bodies,” and female homoeroticism¡Xthe book highlights the previously unrecognized theoretical contributions of these writers to incipient “second-wave” radical feminist discourse. She is currently at work on a second book project, entitled Beauvoir’s Japanese Daughters: Postwar Japanese Feminism and The Second Sex, which explores the reception of the work and life of this famous French feminist philosopher by Japanese female intellectuals who were engaged in a similar project to interrogate or subvert the structures of gendered oppression in postwar Japanese society.
Dr. Bullock currently serves as Major/Minor Advisor, Study Abroad Advisor, and Honors Program Coordinator for the Japanese Program.
Courses Taught
JPN 101-102 First-Year Japanese
JPN 190 Freshman Seminar: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan
JPN 201 Second-Year Japanese
JPN 303 Reading Literature in Japanese
JPN 360 Seminar in Modern Japanese Women Writers
JPN 372 Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature
JPN 378 Postwar Japan Through Its Media