Dr Laura Emily Clark
Lecturer , Beginners Japanese and Japanese culture - School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Email: lclark42@une.edu.au
Biography
Qualifications
Awards
Teaching Areas
Primary Research Area/s
Japanese; Contemporary Literature; Gender and societyResearch Interests
Recent Grants
2021-ongoing, Research Assistant,上級日本語 Network, Student Motivations Project, Sakura Funding Project
2020, Mariko Bando Visiting Research Fellowship (1 year), Showa Women's University, Tokyo
2017, Japan Foundation Fellowship (6 months), Waseda University, Tokyo
2017, Japan Study Grant, National Library of Australia
Research Supervision Experience
Publications
Clark, LE, 2023, “A Stranger in a Familiar Land: A Domestic Student Relocates,” in Elizabeth Allotta (ed), Different Perspectives, Different Cultures, Different Places: The Experiences of International and Domestic Students Studying in an Australian University, BRILL.
Clark, LE, 2023, “Murakami Haruki and Tawada Yōko: Narrativising Cultural Traumas in a Transcultural Space,” in Barbara Hartley and Akiko Uchiyama (eds) Border-Crossing Japanese Literature: Reading Multiplicity, Routledge.
Clark, LE 2022, ‘Embodied Consequences, Doing Jishuku and Staying Home: Literary depictions of Japan’s Covid-19 disaster response’, Gender, Place and Culture
Clark, LE and Kenko Kawasaki 2022, ‘Girls (and Boys) Debating Democracy in Aoi Sanmyaku’, Japanese Studies, vol. 12, Special Issue: Youth and Democracy in Postwar Japan
Clark, LE and Lucy Fraser 2020, “Gender in Japanese Literature and Literary Studies,” in Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser and Mark Pendleton (eds) The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture, Routledge.
Clark, LE 2020, “The Australian Literary Scene and Murakami Haruki: Nobel Laureate Heir Apparent or Marketing Overhype?”, in David Chapman and Carol Hayes (eds) Japan in Australia: Culture, Context and Connection, Routledge.
Clark, LE 2017, ‘Masculinity as a Heteroglossic Performance in Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase’, New Voices in Japanese Studies, vol. 9.
Clark, L 2015, ‘Negotiating the Salaryman’s Hegemonic Masculinity in Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase’, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, vol. 15, no. 3.
Clinical Skills and Experience
Memberships
Japanese Studies Association of Australia
Asian Studies Association of Australia
Women in Asia Forum
