Oliver is joined by Dr. Hannah Osborne, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Literature at the University of East Anglia, who explores with us the diverse, powerful and increasingly international field of modern Japanese literature. Hannah Osborne is Lecturer in Japanese Literature at the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing and the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia. She completed her doctoral thesis, Gender, Love and Text in the Early Writings of Kanai Mieko at the University of Leeds in 2015. Before taking up her current post, she taught courses in modern Japanese literature at SOAS, University of London, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include: intersections between text, illustration and the avant-garde arts; gender and the body; and women's writing and translation in modern Japanese literature. She is currently working on her book manuscript The Intermedial Text: Kanai Mieko and the Japanese Avant Garde. She is also Editor for Literature at Japan Forum.
If this episode has awoken your inner bookworm, check out our new MA where you can discuss your favourite titles with Hannah herself on our Modern Japanese Literature module. Find out more on the SISJAC website.
See Hannah's research profile here.
ARTICLES:
'The Ai-Novel: Ai no seikatsu and Its Challenge to the Japanese Literary Establishment'
'The Transgressive Figure of the Dancing-Girl-in-Pain and Kanai Mieko’s Corporeal Text'
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