TANAKA Kathryn | Research Field | Department of Global Business, Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Hyogo

Research Field: Kathryn M. Tanaka (University of Chicago, PhD), associate professor at the University of Hyogo, is a Japanese literary scholar who works on the intersections of medicine, literature, media, and culture. Her work focuses primarily on Hansen’s disease and modern Japanese literature. In addition to work on literature by minority groups and gender in public sanatoria and popular media, she also has several articles about Hōjō Tamio, and has done translations of several of his stories. She has also published work on Amabie and Japanese culture in the COVID-19 pandemic. Her most recent articles include Araya Koga and Gendered Representations of Hansen's Disease (US?Japan Women s Journal, 2024).

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