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Brian Hurley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin's College of Liberal Arts. Holding a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, he specializes in twentieth-century Japanese literature and thought, examining intersections between literary aesthetics and global intellectual history.
Education:
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
His research centers on Japanese Literature, Intellectual History, and Economics through frameworks of Close Reading and Comparative Literature. He constructs transwar interpretive models analyzing how Japanese texts engaged with nationalism, fascism, and liberal rehabilitation across prewar/postwar boundaries. Current work explores Cold War capitalism via Kawabata Yasunari, Etō Jun, and Murakami Haruki, incorporating transpacific comparative contexts and archival research on organizations like the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
Scientific Awards:
- Honorable Mention, MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Book Prize for East Asian Studies (2022)
- Modern Japan History Association Book Prize Finalist (2022)
- College of Liberal Arts Civil Discourse Course Development Award (2023)
- Thomas Jefferson Center Civic Thought Initiative Grant (2024)
Professor Hurley has developed award-winning courses including 'Tarzan and Twentieth Century America,' which examines freedom and empire through Burroughs' transpacific writings. His teaching spans Japanese pop culture, avant-garde arts, and contemporary crises across multiple departments, featured in Life and Letters (April 2025). Research appears in Comparative Literature Studies, Journal of Japanese Studies, and Journal of Asian Studies, connecting Japanese literary production to global ideological currents from modernization theory to neoliberalism.
