September 2003

Curriculum vitae

William J. Farge, S.J.

 

Associate Professor of Japanese.                                          Tel. (504) 865-3842

Loyola University New Orleans.                                           Fax (504-865-2348

6363 St. Charles Ave.                                               e-mail: wjfarge@loyno.edu

New Orleans, LA 70118

 

Ph.D. Japanese Language and Literature with a minor in East Asian history.      Indiana University. December 1997.

M.A. Japanese Language and Literature. Indiana University. April 1995.

M.A. Theology. Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. March 1979.

S.T.L. Theology (Licentiate in Sacred Theology), Magna cum Laude. Sophia    University. March 1979.

B.A. Theology. Sophia University, March 1977.

B.A. Philosophy. Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana. May 1971.

 

AWARDS:

National Security Education Program (NSEP) Travel Grant to Southeast Asia,             December 1999.

National Security Education Program Graduate International Fellowship for    dissertation research, January 1997-December 1998.

U.S. Department of Education's program for Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Title IX Fellowship for advanced study in East   Asian languages and cultures. 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96.

Japanese Language Proficiency, Level One. Association of International          Education, Japan, and The Japan Foundation, Feb. 1990.

Magna cum Laude. S.T.L. Theology. March, 1979, Sophia University,   Tokyo, Japan.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor of Japanese. Loyola University, New Orleans. January 1998- .

Associate Instructor of Japanese. Indiana University. September 1991-May 1993.

Instructor of Japanese. Loyola University, New Orleans. September 1990 - May         1991.

 

PAPERS GIVEN:

“Violating Censorship: Humor and Virulence in the Popular Writings of Baba             Bunkoµ (1715-1759),” Midwest Conference of the Associations of Asian           Studies, Bloomington, IN. October 8, 2000.

 “Historiographic and Literary Problems in Early Modern Satire,” Southern Japan       Seminar, Panama City FL. September 23, 2000.

 “The Japanese Constitution and Mythology,” The Round Table Club, New        Orleans. May 11, 2000

“The Function of Japanese Mythology in Contemporary Japan,” Louisiana        Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Teachers. July 27,     1999.

“Japan in the Western News Media,” The Japan Society of New Orleans.          November 15, 1998.

“The History and Development of Japanese Cuisine,” East Asian Studies Center          lecture series, Fort Branch, Indiana. October 26, 1996.

“Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Literary Translation: Kontemutsusu munji and           Giya do pekadoru” (the Japanese translations made by the Jesuit Mission             Press of De Imitatione Christi [1596, 1610] and Guia de Pecadores [1599]             University of Leiden, the Netherlands. May 28, 1996.

“The Literary Text as Historical Artifact: The Writings of Baba Bunkoµ (1718-           1759), Indiana University. April 19, 1996.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

The Japanese Translations of the Jesuit Mission Press, 1590-1614, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd., 2003.

 

Translations:

Motoyama Yukihiko. "Patterns of Thought and Action of the Common People during the Bakumatsu and Restoration Epoch," in J.S.A. Elisonas, Richard Rubinger, eds. Proliferating Talent: Essays on Politics, Thought, and Education in the Meiji Era, (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997).

 

Nobuhiro Shinji. "Santoµ Kyoµden's Sharebon: Private Life and Public Art," in Sumie Jones, ed. Imaging Reading Eros: Sexuality and Edo Culture, 1750-1850 (Bloomington: East Asian Studies Center, 1996).