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Rebecca Marcella Suter is professor of Japanese studies at the University of Oslo, and a member of the European Association for Japanese Studies council.

Career

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Suter took an M.A. in comparative studies and a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1999 and 2004 respectively, both from the University of Naples "L'Orientale". While researching for her Ph.D., and for a short period after, she was a lecturer in Japanese studies at the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient. From 2005 to 2007 she was at Harvard University, first as a postdoc and then as a lecturer in Japanese literature. After a spell as a visiting assistant professor at Brown University in 2007, she moved to the University of Sydney in 2008, and stayed there for some 15 years, becoming a full professor of Japanese studies and comparative literature in 2022.[1]

After Sydney, she moved back to Europe and took up a position as professor of Japanese studies at the University of Oslo.[2] She was elected to the European Association for Japanese Studies council for the period 2023-2026.[1][3]

Research interests

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Suter's principal research interests lie in the field of comparative studies between Japan and the West and how Japanese literature, both historical and contemporary, adopts and draws on Western culture.[1] Her monographs, detailed below, cover topics such as how Murakami Haruki acts as a "mediator between Japanese and American literature and culture";[4] the depiction of Kirishitan (that is, Catholics in Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries) in contemporary Japanese literary and genre fiction such as manga and anime;[5] and the dual perspective, the "multifaceted lens of reference", of Kazuo Ishiguro as a Japanese growing up and living in the UK.[6]

Selected works

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Books

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  • The Japanization of modernity : Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-674-02833-3.[4][7][8]
  • Katayama, Kyôichi; Kazumi, Kazui (2011). Gridare amore dal centro del mondo (in Italian). Kappa Edizioni. ISBN 978-88-7471-354-7. Suter's translation of Socrates in Love.
  • Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction. University of Hawaii Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-8248-5500-0.[5][9][10][11]
  • Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's Early Novels (2020)[6]

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Prof. Dr. Rebecca SUTER". European Association for Japanese Studies. 20 September 2023. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  2. ^ "Rebecca Marcella Suter | Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages". University of Oslo. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  3. ^ "EAJS Council Members 2023-2026". European Association for Japanese Studies. 8 September 2023. Archived from the original on 11 November 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  4. ^ a b Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela (2009). "Reviewed work: The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States, Rebecca Suter". Monumenta Nipponica. 64 (1): 219–223. doi:10.1353/mni.0.0050. JSTOR 40540316.
  5. ^ a b Roddy, Stephen (2016). "Review of Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction". Monumenta Nipponica. 71 (1): 233–237. doi:10.1353/mni.2016.0028. ISSN 0027-0741. JSTOR 26451224.
  6. ^ a b Strecher, Matthew C. (2022). "Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's Early Novels by Rebecca Suter". Monumenta Nipponica. 77 (1): 182–187. doi:10.1353/mni.2022.0042.
  7. ^ Van Compernolle, Timothy J. (2010). "Reviewed work: The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki Between Japan and the United States, Rebecca Suter". Comparative Literature. 62 (2): 197–199. doi:10.1215/00104124-2010-010. JSTOR 40600367.
  8. ^ Strecher, Matthew C. (2010). "Reviewed work: The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States, Rebecca Suter". The Journal of Japanese Studies. 36 (1): 169–174. doi:10.1353/jjs.0.0136. JSTOR 20752509.
  9. ^ Métraux, Daniel A. (2017). "Review of Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction, Rebecca Suter". Asian Ethnology. 76 (1): 196–197. ISSN 1882-6865. JSTOR 90017569.
  10. ^ Guo, Nanyan (2017). "Review of Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction". The Journal of Japanese Studies. 43 (2): 451–455. doi:10.1353/jjs.2017.0055. ISSN 0095-6848. JSTOR 26448211.
  11. ^ Kaplan-Reyes, Alexander (2016). "Review of HOLY GHOSTS: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction". Pacific Affairs. 89 (3): 671–674. ISSN 0030-851X. JSTOR 24779724.
  12. ^ "Japanese Studies". University of Sydney. Archived from the original on 30 April 2025. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
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