Lecturer in Japanese, University of New England
Laura Emily Clark is a Lecturer in Japanese at the University of New England. Her research explores contemporary Japanese literature, gender, and Japanese authors in the transnational literary sphere. Her co-authored paper with Kenko Kawasaki has been published in Japanese Studies (2022) and her work on Covid-19 short fiction was published in Gender, Place and Culture (2022). She received her PhD from the University of Queensland on Japanese gender ideals in Haruki Murakami's fiction. She received the Mariko Bando Fellowship from Showa Women’s University in 2020.
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