I am a literary theorist and translator originally from the island of Kyushu, Japan. I obtained my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (2003). I remain based in Melbourne, though currently lecturing in Tokyo. I have written on the works of Mishima Yukio through the perspective of post-Lacanian feminist psychoanalysis. My present research concerns space and the city in contemporary Japanese novels.

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rotomo@unimelb.edu.au

My translation into Japanese of Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones, a novel set in war-ravaged Bougainville, was recently published by Hakusuisha.

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