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Doris G. Bargen Professor of Japanese Ph.D., Tübingen University (Germany), 1978 Program Director - Japanese Contact Information Phone: 413-545-4955 E-mail: dgbargen@asianlan.umass.edu Office: Herter 439 Office Hours (Fall 2006): Wed 2:00-3:00 & Thu 3:00-3:45 Doris G. Bargen has published in three areas of interdisciplinary research:  the Japanese classics (A Woman's Weapon: Spirit Possession in The Tale of Genji, 1997), the early modern Bakumatsu and Meiji/Taishô periods (Suicidal Honor: General Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ôgai and Natsume Sôseki, 2006), and postwar literature and culture (articles in Monumenta Nipponica, the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, and in The Woman's Hand). She received a Choice Book Award (1997), a UMass Faculty Research Grant (Healey) and grants from the Fulbright Commission, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Japan Foundation. She has developed courses at all levels, including a yearlong capstone honors seminar. In May 2005 she organized the "Assassins Symposium" and in spring of 2006 she was chief faculty advisor for the first Intergenerational Graduate Student Conference on "Diversity in East Asia" (held May 6, 2006). Courses Offered - Fall 06 Japanese Art and Culture (Jpn 135) The Samurai (Capstone Japan 499C; also listed as Jpn 491A and Japan 560H)

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