- Name：SAKAKIBARA, Richi
- Title：Professor
- Research Field：Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature, Translation Studies
- Biography：
Richi Sakakibara’s research focuses on modern and contemporary Japanese literature, translation studies, and postwar intellectual history, with particular attention to gender, language politics, and canon formation. She has published extensively in both English and Japanese on topics including U.S. Occupation-era fiction, amateur literary movements, and the politics of translating Japanese literature into English. She is co-editor of The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism 1945-52 and Literature Among the Ruins (Lexington Books). Her work also appears in volumes such as The Empire of Censorship and The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies. Sakakibara received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has taught at Shinshū University before joining Waseda in 2002.
She served as Associate Director of the Waseda International House of Literature from 2020 to 2022, and as the Editor-in-chief of The Journal of Waseda International House of Literature from 2021-2024.
