Masafumi Furukawa

Last Updated :2023/09/06

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
E-mail
mfurukawhiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Master of Arts, Hiroshima University

Research Fields

  • Humanities;Literature;European literature

Research Keywords

  • German Literature
  • Judentum
  • Comparative Literature
  • Kafka

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2023, Liberal Arts Education Program1, First Semester, Basic German I
  2. 2023, Liberal Arts Education Program1, First Semester, Basic German II
  3. 2023, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, General Introduction to Studies in Comparative Culture A
  4. 2023, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Lecture on German Literature and Linguistics for Beginner
  5. 2023, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, General Introduction to Studies in Comparative Culture B
  6. 2023, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Lecture on German Literature
  7. 2023, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Seminar of German short stories B
  8. 2023, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Fundamental Seminar of German Literature A
  9. 2023, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Seminar on literary theory in German studies
  10. 2023, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, General Introduction to Studies in Comparative Culture C
  11. 2023, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis A
  12. 2023, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis B
  13. 2023, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Graduation Thesis
  14. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Special Lecture of Humanities and Social Sciences
  15. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Special Lecture of Humanities and Social Sciences
  16. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Seminar on German Novels A
  17. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Seminar on German Novels B

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Wer ist Josefine? - Über die Beziehung zwischen der Protagonistin und dem "Volk der Mäuse" in Kafkas Josefine-Erzählung, Bulletin of the Research Center for the Technique of Representation, 1-10, 20230331
  2. Wahrheit, Gebet, Schreiben-Kafkas Prinzip der Textkonstruktion, The Hiroshima University Studies Faculty of Letters, 56, 206-225, 19960401
  3. Unm(]E88D8[)glichkeit und M(]E88D8[)glichkeit-Versuch (]E88DB[)ber den "Bau" von Franz Kafka, Die deutsche Literatur= hrsg. v. dem Germanistenkreis in Hiroshima, 11, 31-44, 19970401
  4. Kafka und Ph(]E88D2[)nomenologie, Die Deutsche Literatur= hrsg. v. dem Zweigbezirk Chugoku-Shikoku der Japanischen Gesellschaft f(]E88DB[)r Germanistik, 57-65, 19930401
  5. Schocken und die j(]E88DB[)dische Exilliteratur, Salman Schocken und sein Verlag, Die deutsche Literatur= hrsg. v. dem Germanistenkreis in Hiroshima, 53-66, 19960401
  6. Methodologie von Kafkas "Schreiben", 119-128, 20030731
  7. Kafka in "schaendlichen Niederungen", 45-56, 20060601
  8. Kafka and Hiroko Oyamada, Bulletin of the Research Center for the Technique of Representation, 65-76, 20190331
  9. Die Prophezeiungsstruktur in Kafkas "In der Strafkolonie", Bulletin of the Research Center for the Technique of Representation, 17-26, 20210331

Publications such as books

  1. 2021/05/07, Interpretationen zu Franz Kafkas Romanen, 2021, 5, Scholarly Book, Joint work, 9784802092623, 268, 58-75
  2. 2016/01/30, Interpretationen zu Werken der spaeten Schaffensperiode Franz Kafkas, Scholarly Book, Joint work

Social Activities

History as Committee Members

  1. chief editor, 2019/04, 2020/03, Germanistenkreis in Hiroshima

Organizing Academic Conferences, etc.

  1. Germanistenkreis in Hiroshima, chief editor, 2020/03, 2020/03
  2. Germanistenkreis in Hiroshima, chief editor, 2020/07, 2020/07
  3. 1995/
  4. 1999/