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Hannah Osborne is a 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 is also a member of the British Centre for Literary Translation Research Group, the Gender and Its Intersections group, and Area Studies. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds and has previously taught at SOAS, Oxford, and Cambridge.
Her research focuses on modern Japanese literature, with particular emphasis on gender, the body, women's writing, and the intersections between text and avant-garde arts. She is currently completing a monograph titled The Intermedial Text: Kanai Mieko and the Japanese Avant Garde and is Chief Editor for Literature at Japan Forum.
Hannah Osborne's recent publications center on Kanai Mieko and explore themes such as intermediality, corporeality, trauma, and literary rebellion. Her work spans journals like Review of Japanese Culture and Society and Japanese Language and Literature, reflecting a consistent engagement with transgressive female figures, photographic representation, and memory in Japanese literary modernity.
- Chief Editor for Literature, Japan Forum
- Project lead on multiple research grants from the Japan Foundation and Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
- Accepting PhD students
Her recent projects include archival research on Kanai Mieko and explorations of identity in Abe Kobo’s fiction. She is actively involved in interdisciplinary research networks at UEA, contributing to translation, gender studies, and Japanese cultural scholarship.
