Dr. Kirsten Cather

Biography

Kirsten Cather teaches courses on Japanese culture, literature, and film. She holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages & Cultures from the University of California, Berkeley, obtained in 2004, and an M.A. from the same institution in 1998, along with a B.A. in Japanese from Connecticut College in 1991. Her research interests include modern Japanese literature and film, focusing on themes such as censorship, suicide, and death in modern Japan, as well as adaptations and translation theory and practice. She has held fellowships including a position at the Humanities Institute in 2010 and the Dean's Fellowship from the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Additionally, she was awarded the Bowed Yang Yuen Ren Chao Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley from 2001 to 2003.

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