Masafumi Furukawa

Last Updated :2024/07/03

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. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, First Semester, Basic German I
  2. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, First Semester, Basic German II
  3. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
  4. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Lecture on German Literature and Linguistics for Beginner
  5. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Lecture on German Literature
  6. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Seminar of German short stories B
  7. 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Fundamental Seminar of German Literature A
  8. 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Seminar on literary theory in German studies
  9. 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis A
  10. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Guidance on Graduation Thesis B
  11. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Graduation Thesis
  12. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Special Lecture of Humanities and Social Sciences(Japanese Class) Students enrolled before AY 2023
  13. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Special Lecture of Humanities and Social Sciences(Program for Law Practice Professionals) Students enrolled before AY 2023
  14. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Special Lecture of Humanities and Social Sciences(Japanese Class)Students enrolling in AY 2024 or later
  15. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Project Research
  16. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Seminar on Modern German Literature A
  17. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Seminar on Modern German Literature 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/