SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Cross-dressing as Lady Murasaki: Tokugawa vernacular translations of classical Japanese texts

Rebekah Clements

Speaker Biography

Rebekah Clements completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2011. She is currently a Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Queens' College. Her background is in pre-modern Japanese literature and her current work focuses on the cultural history of translation in pre-modern Japan.