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Dr. Victoria Young is an Associate Professor in Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Selwyn College. She specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese and Okinawan literature, focusing on themes of imperialism, decolonisation, gender, and multilingualism. Her research examines how marginalized voices challenge literary and cultural boundaries.
Education: BA in Japanese Studies (Trinity Hall, Cambridge), MA in Japanese Cultural Studies (Birkbeck College), PhD in Ryukyuan/Okinawan Studies (Waseda University, Tokyo; awarded by Leeds University, 2016). She has taught at Newcastle University and previously at the University of Leeds and Sheffield.
Research Interests: Translation theory, transborder literature, feminist critique, and the intersections of language and identity. Her monograph Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature (2024) reimagines translation as a tool to decenter Japanese literary canons. Current projects explore Vietnam’s influence on Japanese literature.
Her articles analyze Okinawan and zainichi (Korean-Japanese) literature, emphasizing marginalized voices. She supervises graduate students in related fields and contributes to literary translation initiatives.
