Rebecca Suter

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Rebecca Marcella Suter is professor of Japanese studies at the University of Oslo, and a member of the European Association for Japanese Studies council.

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Career

Suter took an M.A. in comparative studies and a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1999 and 2004 respectively, both from the University of Naples "L'Orientale". While researching for her Ph.D., and for a short period after, she was a lecturer in Japanese studies at the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient. From 2005 to 2007 she was at Harvard University, first as a postdoc and then as a lecturer in Japanese literature. After a spell as a visiting assistant professor at Brown University in 2007, she moved to the University of Sydney in 2008, and stayed there for some 15 years, becoming a full professor of Japanese studies and comparative literature in 2022. [1]

After Sydney, she moved back to Europe and took up a position as professor of Japanese studies at the University of Oslo. [2] She was elected to the European Association for Japanese Studies council for the period 2023-2026. [1] [3]

Research interests

Suter's principal research interests lie in the field of comparative studies between Japan and the West and how Japanese literature, both historical and contemporary, adopts and draws on Western culture. [1] Her monographs, detailed below, cover topics such as how Murakami Haruki acts as a "mediator between Japanese and American literature and culture"; [4] the depiction of Kirishitan (that is, Catholics in Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries) in contemporary Japanese literary and genre fiction such as manga and anime; [5] and the dual perspective, the "multifaceted lens of reference", of Kazuo Ishiguro as a Japanese growing up and living in the UK. [6]

Selected works

Books

Articles

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Prof. Dr. Rebecca SUTER". European Association for Japanese Studies . 20 September 2023. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "Rebecca Marcella Suter | Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages". University of Oslo . Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "EAJS Council Members 2023-2026". European Association for Japanese Studies . 8 September 2023. Archived from the original on 11 November 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  4. 1 2 Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela (2009). "Reviewed work: The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States, Rebecca Suter". Monumenta Nipponica . 64 (1): 219–223. doi:10.1353/mni.0.0050. JSTOR   40540316.
  5. 1 2 Roddy, Stephen (2016). "Review of Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction". Monumenta Nipponica . 71 (1): 233–237. doi:10.1353/mni.2016.0028. ISSN   0027-0741. JSTOR   26451224.
  6. 1 2 Strecher, Matthew C. (2022). "Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's Early Novels by Rebecca Suter" . Monumenta Nipponica . 77 (1): 182–187. doi:10.1353/mni.2022.0042.
  7. ↑ Van Compernolle, Timothy J. (2010). "Reviewed work: The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki Between Japan and the United States, Rebecca Suter". Comparative Literature . 62 (2): 197–199. doi:10.1215/00104124-2010-010. JSTOR   40600367.
  8. ↑ Strecher, Matthew C. (2010). "Reviewed work: The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States, Rebecca Suter". The Journal of Japanese Studies . 36 (1): 169–174. doi:10.1353/jjs.0.0136. JSTOR   20752509.
  9. ↑ Métraux, Daniel A. (2017). "Review of Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction, Rebecca Suter". Asian Ethnology . 76 (1): 196–197. ISSN   1882-6865. JSTOR   90017569.
  10. ↑ Guo, Nanyan (2017). "Review of Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction". The Journal of Japanese Studies . 43 (2): 451–455. doi:10.1353/jjs.2017.0055. ISSN   0095-6848. JSTOR   26448211.
  11. ↑ Kaplan-Reyes, Alexander (2016). "Review of HOLY GHOSTS: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction". Pacific Affairs . 89 (3): 671–674. ISSN   0030-851X. JSTOR   24779724.
  12. ↑ "Japanese Studies". University of Sydney . Archived from the original on 30 April 2025. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
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