Assistant Professor

Department of British, American, and European Languages and Literatures, and Linguistics
(German Language and Literature)

E-mail: mfurukaw[at]hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Modern German Literature and Kafka Research

• Judentum
• Einsinnigkeit
• Exilliteratur
• Kafka

My research focuses on the German writer Franz Kafka, who had a particularly significant impact on 20th-century literature. His experimental works that concern the hidden depths of human psychology are almost unlimited sources of resources.

• “Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse”: A Songless Poem, Kenji Kamie and Hiroaki Noguchi (eds.), Interpretationen zu Werken der späten Schaffensperiode Franz Kafkas, Dogakusha, 2016.
• “In der Strafkolonie”: The Writing of Condemnation, Masafumi Furukawa and Yoshinori Nishijima (eds.), Interpretationen zu Werken der mittleren Schaffensperiode Franz Kafkas, Dogakusha, pp.26-43, 2011.
• Reality Inverted: The Function of Metaphor in Kafka, Die Deutsche Literatur, 32, pp.11-20, 1999.
• Wahrheit, Gebet, Schreiben: Kafkas Prinzip der Textkonstruktion, The Hiroshima University studies, Faculty of Letters, 56, pp.206-225, 1996.