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Assoc Prof Roy Starrs

Senior Lecturer Japanese Programme

Office Arts 3S12
Tel +64 3 479 9030
Email roy.starrs@otago.ac.nz

Associate Professor Roy Starrs specialises in Japanese literature, culture, and intellectual history; comparative literature, and culture.

Teaching

Research

  • Shinto and Buddhism in Japanese literature
  • Comparative study of Buddhist and Christian mysticism
  • Expressionism in Japanese and Western modernist art

Publications

Starrs, R. (2011). Modernism and Japanese culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 344p. Authored Book - Research

Starrs, R. (Ed.). (2011). Politics and religion in modern Japan: Red sun, white lotus. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 352p. Edited Book - Research

Starrs, R. (2009). A devil of a job: Mishima and the masochistic drive. Angelaki, 14(3), 85-99. doi: 10.1080/09697250903407583 Journal - Research Article

Starrs, R. (2006). Lafcadio Hearn as Japanese nationalist. Japan Review, 18, 181-213. Journal - Research Article

Starrs, R. (Ed.). (2012). Rethinking Japanese modernism. Leiden, The Netherlands: Global Oriental, 549p. Edited Book - Research

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