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Dr Regan Murphy Kao

Japanese Studies Librarian
Buddhist Studies Librarian
Religious Studies Librarian (interim)

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Regan's role in the library

As Japanese Studies Librarian, I manage Japanese language materials, both print and digital. I provide specialized research assistance using both print and computer-based bibliographic tools and manage the digital products and services that support the study of Japanese language materials. In addition to providing reference and bibliographic services to faculty, students and other users of the library, I select Japanese language monographs and serials, maintain and expand relations with antiquarian dealers, and serve as liaison with Stanford Japanese Studies faculty, consulting and responding to their teaching and research needs.  I also assist visitors, including scholars, librarians, publishers and vendors from Japan, who visit the East Asia Library. 

I also select materials for Buddhist Studies at Stanford and am acting as the interim selector for Religious Studies.

Topic Guides by Regan

Guide Last Updated Subject tag
Japanese E-Resources 2015-04-17 Japanese studies

Professional activities

Association for Asian Studies

Council on East Asian Libraries

OCLC CJK User's Group, Member-at-Large

Selected publications

Murphy, Regan E.  "Esoteric Buddhist Theories of Language in Early Kokugaku: the Soshaku of the Man'yo Daishoki," Critical Readings in the Intellectual History of Early Modern Japan, W. J. Boot, ed., Brill, 2012: p521-543.

Takagi Hiroshi.  "Fabricating Antiquity in Modern Nara." Regan E. Murphy and John Breen trans., Jinbun Kagaku Kenkyusho, Kyoto University, Zinbun 2011 No. 43: p51-60.

Murphy, Regan E.  "Sanskrit Studies in Early Modern Japan,"  in Esoteric Buddhism and Tantras in East Asia, Richard Payne, Charlie Orzech, and Henrik Sorensen, ed., Brill 2010.

Murphy, Regan E.  "Esoteric Buddhist Theories of Language in Early Kokugaku: the Soshaku of the Man'yo Daishoki," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 36.1 (2009): p65-92.

Murphy, Regan E.  Guest Editor, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, spring 2009 issue in honor of "Helen Hardacre and the Study of Japanese Religion."

Shimazono Susumu.  "State Shinto in the Lives of the People: the Establishment of Emperor Worship, Modern Nationalism, and Shrine Shinto in Late Meiji," Regan E. Muphy trans., Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 36.1 (2009): p93-124.

Education

Ph.D., Study of Religion (Japanese Buddhism), Harvard University
B.A., East Asia Studies, Columbia University