ABOUT

Lucy Fraser is Lecturer in Japanese at The University of Queensland, where she teaches the Japanese language and literature. Her research interests include gender in literature and popular culture in both Japanese and English. She is the author of The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid” (Wayne State University Press, 2017), and the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (Routledge, 2020). She has translated contemporary literature by Kawakami Hiromi and Hoshino Tomoyuki, and literary and cultural studies criticism by renowned Japanese scholars including Honda Masuko and Fujimoto Yukari.