University of London, Birkbeck College
Faculty Member, European Cultures and Languages
Lecturer in 20th and 21st-century French Studies
Birkbeck, University of London
About
Akane Kawakami teaches and researches French literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Her interests include contemporary French and francophone fiction, travel narratives, photography, and interactions between literary and visual culture.
She has published extensively in the field of modern and contemporary culture, with numerous articles in refereed journals on a variety of writers and artists (Proust, Barthes, Michaux, Andre Masson, Guibert, Annie Ernaux) and two monographs: A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano's Postmodern Fictions (Liverpool University Press, 2000), and Travellers' Visions: French Literary Encounters with Japan, 1881-2004 (2005). She has also published two books of essays in Japanese.
She is a Steering Committee member of the Birkbeck Centre for Research in Representations of Kinship and Community, and a Member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies (IGRS). She is currently supervising two PhD students, working on Daniel Pennac and Julien Green.
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