Adrienne Carey Hurley (born 1968) is an American academic, translator, youth advocate and member of the faculty of McGill University in Montreal.
Contents |
Hurley earned a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Irvine in 2000.[1] She also served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) in Orange County.[2][3] She was awarded a Japan Foundation dissertation fellowship in 1997-1998 for her research on child abuse and youth violence in contemporary Japan.[4][5] She held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japan Studies at the Institute for International Studies (now Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies) at Stanford University from 2002-2005.[3]
From 2005-2008, she was assistant professor in Asian and Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Iowa, where she was also the founder and director of the University of Iowa Youth Empowerment Academy [6] and coordinator of the University of Iowa's One World Foundation Young Leader Scholarship program.[7] She organized the 2006 "New Nationalisms" symposium with Tomoyuki Hoshino, Chizuko Naito, and Su Tong.[8][9] She currently teaches East Asian Studies and Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University.[10][11][12] Hurley's translation of Tomoyuki Hoshino's novel Lonely Hearts Killer was published by PM Press in 2009 and is the first book-length work by Hoshino to be translated into English.[13][14] Her areas of research expertise include "Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature, Youth and Violence, Critical Race Theory, Anarchist Studies, and Social Movements." [12][15][16]
"Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures: Narratives of Youth and Violence from Japan and the United States." Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.[17]
English translation of Tomoyuki Hoshino's novel Lonely Hearts Killer (originally published in Japanese as Ronrii haatsu kiraa in 2004). Oakland, California: PM Press, November, 2009.[18]
“First They Came for Sherman Austin and the Anarchists of Color: New Fronts in the War on Critical Thinking and the Criminalization of Youth,” Left Curve No. 28, 2004.[19]
“Demons, Transnational Subjects, and the Fiction of Ohba Minako,” in Oe and Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan, edited by Stephen Snyder and Philip Gabriel, Honolulu, Hawai’i: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1999.