Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3780
Email: jfujitani@apu.edu
Office Location: Rose Garden, Room 5
James Fujitani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Profile
James Fujitani, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and a recent graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara. His main research interest focuses on the shifting representation of animals in the sixteenth century. Additionally, Fujitani is working on a further project concerning the humanist practice of philosophical poetry in the Renaissance.
Education
Ph.D. - University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007
M.A. - University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002
B.A. - University of California, San Diego, 2000
M.A. - University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002
B.A. - University of California, San Diego, 2000
Professional/Scholarly Presentations
Presentations
Fujitani, James. "Musa Coelo Beat: The Religious Basis of Du Bellay 2019s Low Style," presented at the 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2007
Fujitani, James. "Hierarchy and Humility: the Orthodoxy of Montaigne’s Animal Praise," presented at the colloquium of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto, 2007
Fujitani, James. "Chaos and Dominion: Du Plessis-Mornay and the Poetics of the Renaissance Apology," presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 2005
Publications
Fujitani, James. Review of L'Écrivain et ses institutions, Volume rrealise sous la direction scientifique de Roger Marchal. In Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissancee. Tome 69, No. 2 (2007): 513-514.
Fujitani, James. Review of Bibliographie du voyage français en Italie du Moyen Age à 1914. In The Romanic Review edited by Vito Catiglione Minischtti, Giovanni Dotoli, and Roger Musnik, Vol. 94, 1-2, (2002): 245.
Fujitani, James. "Musa Coelo Beat: The Religious Basis of Du Bellay 2019s Low Style," presented at the 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2007
Fujitani, James. "Hierarchy and Humility: the Orthodoxy of Montaigne’s Animal Praise," presented at the colloquium of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto, 2007
Fujitani, James. "Chaos and Dominion: Du Plessis-Mornay and the Poetics of the Renaissance Apology," presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 2005
Publications
Fujitani, James. Review of L'Écrivain et ses institutions, Volume rrealise sous la direction scientifique de Roger Marchal. In Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissancee. Tome 69, No. 2 (2007): 513-514.
Fujitani, James. Review of Bibliographie du voyage français en Italie du Moyen Age à 1914. In The Romanic Review edited by Vito Catiglione Minischtti, Giovanni Dotoli, and Roger Musnik, Vol. 94, 1-2, (2002): 245.
Professional Involvement and Accomplishments
Associations, Boards, Committees
Modern Language Society
Renaissance Society of America
American Comparative Literature Association
Modern Language Society
Renaissance Society of America
American Comparative Literature Association
Expertise
Animal Studies
French Literature
Renaissance Cultural Studies
Note: This information is current for the 2007-08 academic year. For additional information, please contact the appropriate office.
