JUSFC Staff Biographies
ERIC J. GANGLOFF
Executive Director
Japan-US Friendship Commission
Currently, Gangloff directs the work of a small federal agency, the Japan-US Friendship Commission, that provides grants for research , training and exchange with Japan. He has worked for the Commission since 1985. From 1985-1988 he directed the Commission’s office in Tokyo. He frequently travels to Japan for consultations at ministries, universities, and other private organizations. Gangloff has extensive background in Japanese language and culture, having taught university-level courses in both for approximately thirteen years.
Professional activities in which Gangloff has participated include addresses in Japan on the role of cultural exchange in internationalization before the Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures Private University Presidents’ Council (1987), the Rotary Club of Nagoya (1985), and an address on funding Japanese performing arts for the Western Art Alliance (1989), and numerous presentations on the work the Commission to interested private sector audiences.
Issues:
Japan: cultural and educational exchanges, and foreign affairs.
Education:
Ph.D., 1973, The University of Chicago
B.A., 1965, The University of Chicago
Gangloff has also attended Waseda University 1967-1968, and was a research student at University of Tokyo 1968-69, 1969-70. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled "Kinoshita Junji: A Modern Japanese Dramatist."
Career:
1991- Executive Director, Japan-US Friendship Commission
1985-1990 Associate Executive Director, Japan-US Friendship Commission
1983-1985 IPA Academic Exchange Specialist at USIA, on leave from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1980-1985 Associate Professor of Japanese, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1977-1980 Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1973-1977 Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1970-1973 Instructor in Japanese, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Publications:
Gangloff has written two books: Between God and Man: A Judgment on War Crimes (Tokyo and Seattle, 1979) and Shattered Worlds: The Drama of Kinoshita Junji, a full-length study of the drama of Kinoshia Junji in the context of modern Japanese Culture (in preparation). He has also written numerous articles and literature reviews.
Personal:
DOB: October 7, 1944, Albany, NY. Affiliations: Association for Asian Studies; Association of Teachers of Japanese.
Awards:
University of Tennessee Faculty Development Grant (Tokyo, 1980); NEH Summer Seminar Grant 1978; Research grant, Center for Far Eastern Studies, The University of Chicago 1975; Mellon Foundation Fellow in the Humanities, 1975-76; Research grant, Center for Far Eastern Studies, The University of Chicago (Tokyo, 1973); Special Humanities Fellowship 1965-66, 1966-67, 1967-68; Annual performance awards in his current position.
Reviews:
Mori Ogai, by J. Thomas Rimer, a review in The Journal of Asian Studies, 35, 4, August, 1976
Modern Japanese Drama: An Anthology, by Ted T. Takaya, a review in The Journal of Asian Studies, 39, 4, August, 1980
Mask and Sword: Two Plays for the Contemporary Japanese Theater, by J. Thomas Rimer, a review in Monumenta Nipponica, Winter, 1981
Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan, by Thomas R.H. Havens, a review in Monumenta Nipponica, 38, 3
July, 1997
