Faculty Members
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INUKAI, Ayano Associate Professor, Ph.D. |
| Main Areas of Research | Fictionality and authorship of German Literature in 20th & 21st centuries, Translation studies |
| Self-Introduction | My research interests include German and Austrian literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, especially language experiments and their potential for translation into Japanese. My current research project focuses on the works of Austrian author Clemens J. Setz and the diverse perceptions of the characters depicted in his narrative works. I have published several papers, including Die vierte Wand im postfaktischen Zeitalter: Über „Kayfabe und Literatur“ von Clemens J. Setz. (Neue Beiträge zur Germanistik, no.164, 2022), which received the 21st DAAD Prize of the Japanese Society of German Literature (2024) and the 19th Prize of the Society for Austrian Literature in Japan (2023). I have also written about the German-Japanese translation of works by the West German post-war author Arno Schmidt. In addition to my academic work, I translated Clemens J. Setz’s novel Indigo into Japanese (Kokusho Kankokai, Tokyo 2021) and co-translated a couple of works of nonfiction. |
