Gregory Pflugfelder
Associate Professor
Office: 408 Kent HallOffice Hours: T 4:00–5:30 PM (walk-in basis), or by appointment (via Zoom)
Phone: (212) 854-5035
Email: gmp12@columbia.edu
Educational Background
BA: Harvard University (’81)MA: Waseda University (’84)
PhD: Stanford University (’96)
Classes Taught
ASCE UN1361 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: JapanHSEA UN3871 Modern Japan: Images and Words
HSEA GR6009 Graduate Colloquium on Early Modern Japan
EAAS UN3888 Cultural History of Japanese Monsters
Research Interests
Early-Modern and Modern Japanese History, Gender, Sexuality, Visual CultureGregory Pflugfelder specializes in Japanese history and gender studies. He received his A.B. from Harvard, his M.A. from Waseda, and his Ph.D. from Stanford. His books include Seiji to daidokoro: Akita-ken joshi sanseiken undōshi?(Politics and the kitchen: a history of the women’s suffrage movement in Akita prefecture), which received the 1986 Yamakawa Kikue Prize, and Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950. His current work engages the the historical construction of masculinities, the history of the body, and representations of monstrosity.
Selected Publications
“The Nation-State, the Age/Gender System, and the Reconstitution of Erotic Desire in Nineteenth-Century Japan,”?Journal of Asian Studies?(2012)Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950?(University of California, 1999)
JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life (co-editor,?University of Michigan, 2005)