Gerald Figal
Associate Professor of History and
East Asian Studies

Email: gerald.figal@vanderbilt.edu
Phone: 615-322-4712
Office: 241 Buttrick Hall
Fall 2007 Office Hours: MW 11:00-Noon
Web Site: figal-sensei.org
Gerald Figal specializes in modern Japanese history and cultural studies and postwar Okinawa. He received his B.A. from UC Santa Barbara in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Chicago in 1992. His publications include Civilizations and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Duke, 1999) and articles on war memorials and tourism in Okinawa. He is currently working on a book-length project on tourism in postwar Okinawa.

Fall 2007 Courses:
HIST 251: Popular Culture of Early Modern Japan
EAS 115F: Self & Cyborg in Japanese Animation
HONS 186-04: Transpacific Cyberpunk

Spring 2008 Courses:
EAS 211: Popular Culture in Modern Japan
HIST 200: History and Memory