Margherita Long holds a B.A. (1989) in English from Amherst College and a Ph.D. (1998) in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. She has spent a total of four years in Japan, including one year at Tokyo University as a Fulbright scholar in 1994-95. Since coming to Buffalo she has taught Japanese literature and film, Asian American literature, feminist theory, and comparative studies. Her work on Japanese culturalism and East Asian Feminisms has appeared in positions: east asia cultures critique, Signs, and Pacific Review. In 2000-2001 she was post-doctoral fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, at Brown University. Her book manuscript, Perversions of Intimacy: Tanizaki and the Sex of Prewar Japan, reads perversion as a symptom of sexual indifference in the Japanese 1930s, when the nation's intellectuals were hoping to "overcome" the ills of Western modernity. Professor Long is developing a second project to explore the parallel between the global appeal of Japanese anime and the academic appeal of the strain feminist theory known as "body criticism."

Professor Long has accepted an appointment at the University of California in Riverside. Comparative Literature wishes her every success in her new position.

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