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Rebecca Marcella Suter is professor of at the University of Oslo, and a member of the European Association for Japanese Studies council.


Career
Suter took an M.A. in comparative studies and a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1999 and 2004 respectively, both from the University of Naples "L'Orientale". While researching for her Ph.D., and for a short period after, she was a in Japanese studies at the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient. From 2005 to 2007 she was at Harvard University, first as a and then as a lecturer in Japanese literature. After a spell as a visiting assistant professor at in 2007, she moved to the University of Sydney in 2008, and stayed there for some 15 years, becoming a full professor of Japanese studies and comparative literature in 2022.

After Sydney, she moved back to Europe and took up a position as professor of Japanese studies at the University of Oslo. She was elected to the European Association for Japanese Studies council for the period 2023-2026.


Research interests
Suter's principal research interests lie in the field of comparative studies between and and how Japanese literature, both historical and contemporary, adopts and draws on Western culture. Her monographs, detailed below, cover topics such as how acts as a "mediator between Japanese and American literature and culture"; the depiction of (that is, Catholics in Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries) in contemporary Japanese and fiction such as and ; and the dual perspective, the "multifaceted lens of reference", of as a Japanese growing up and living in the UK.


Selected works

Books
  • (2025). 9780674028333, Harvard University Press.
  • (2025). 9788874713547, Kappa Edizioni.
    Suter's translation of Socrates in Love.
  • (2025). 9780824855000, University of Hawaii Press. .
  • Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's Early Novels (2020)


Articles
  • For which Suter won the University of Sydney's Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature, Culture and Art in 2014.


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