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Dr Tamaki Mihic

PhD (Sydney), BA(Hons) (Auckland), BA (Auckland), NAATI (Japanese→English)

Lecturer in Japanese Studies

Email

tamaki.mihic@sydney.edu.au

Address

A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building

The University of Sydney

Biographical details

I am a comparatist, working across contemporary texts in Japanese, English, French and Spanish. My first book examined the global literary response to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, with a focus on how the Japanese national brand and identity changed after this triple disaster. I am currently working on issues of (un)translatability in JP-EN literary translation. I have taught in a wide range of units at the University of Sydney at both undergraduate and graduate levels, in Japanese language and culture, Asian Studies, and ICLS. I am also a NAATI-certified Japanese-English translator.

Teaching and supervision

Teaching

JPNS 2670 Love and Death in Japanese Literature
JPNS 3633 Syntax and Translation
ICLS 1002 Foundations of Comparative Literature
OLET1115 (Im)Politeness in Global Society (Online)

Supervision

Contemporary Japanese Literature
Comparative Literature
Translation Studies
Exophonic literature

Awards and honours

2016 The Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature
2015 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Fellowship, University of Sydney

PhD and master's project opportunities

Contemporary Japanese Literature

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Translational Reading: Analysing Japanese Literature Through Translation	Laura MARSHALL

Selected publications

Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima

(ANU Press, 2020)

Publications

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Books

Mihic, T. (2020). Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima. Acton: ANU Press. [More Information]

Journals

Masuji, H., Mihic, T. (2022). Context-Dependent Script Choice in Emails: The Case of Sumimasen. Japanese Studies, 42(1), 43-60. [More Information]
Robertson, W., Mihic, T. (2022). Introduction to Special Issue on Writing-Restricted Variation in Japanese. Japanese Studies, 42(1), 1-6. [More Information]
Mihic, T. (2022). Script Choice as a Defamiliarization Technique in Kuroda Natsuko's ab sango. Japanese Studies, 42(1), 2022-07-01 00:00:00-22. [More Information]
Mihic, T. (2019). Book review - Miyazawa Kenji and his illustrators: images of nature and Buddhism in Japanese children's literature, by Helen Kilpatrick. Asian Studies Review, 43(2), 366-367. [More Information]
Mihic, T. (2019). Book review - Tokyo: Memory, Imagination and the City. Japanese Studies, 39(1), 141-142. [More Information]
Mihic, T. (2017). 'Do You Accept This Novel?': Takahashi Gen'ichiro's Koisuru genpatsu and the Violence of 'Correct' Language in Post-Fukushima Japan. Japanese Studies, 37(2), 227-245. [More Information]
Mihic, T. (2015). Review of The Great Kant? Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan. Asian Studies Review, 39(2), 344-346. [More Information]
Mihic, T. (2015). The Post-3/11 Quest for True Kizuna - Shi no Tsubute by WagÅ� RyÅ�ichi and Kamisama 2011 by Kawakami Hiromi. The Asia-Pacific Journal, 13(6), 1-8.
Tokita, T., Wright, E. (2011). Weaving Networks for the International Year of Indigenous communication: An interview with David Hernández Palmar and Jason De Santolo. Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 5(2), 1-6.

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2022

Masuji, H., Mihic, T. (2022). Context-Dependent Script Choice in Emails: The Case of Sumimasen. Japanese Studies, 42(1), 43-60. [More Information]
Robertson, W., Mihic, T. (2022). Introduction to Special Issue on Writing-Restricted Variation in Japanese. Japanese Studies, 42(1), 1-6. [More Information]
Mihic, T. (2022). Script Choice as a Defamiliarization Technique in Kuroda Natsuko's ab sango. Japanese Studies, 42(1), 2022-07-01 00:00:00-22. [More Information]

2020

Mihic, T. (2020). Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima. Acton: ANU Press. [More Information]

2019

Mihic, T. (2019). Book review - Miyazawa Kenji and his illustrators: images of nature and Buddhism in Japanese children's literature, by Helen Kilpatrick. Asian Studies Review, 43(2), 366-367. [More Information]
Mihic, T. (2019). Book review - Tokyo: Memory, Imagination and the City. Japanese Studies, 39(1), 141-142. [More Information]

2017

Mihic, T. (2017). 'Do You Accept This Novel?': Takahashi Gen'ichiro's Koisuru genpatsu and the Violence of 'Correct' Language in Post-Fukushima Japan. Japanese Studies, 37(2), 227-245. [More Information]

2015

Mihic, T. (2015). Review of The Great Kant? Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan. Asian Studies Review, 39(2), 344-346. [More Information]
Mihic, T. (2015). The Post-3/11 Quest for True Kizuna - Shi no Tsubute by WagÅ� RyÅ�ichi and Kamisama 2011 by Kawakami Hiromi. The Asia-Pacific Journal, 13(6), 1-8.

2011

Tokita, T., Wright, E. (2011). Weaving Networks for the International Year of Indigenous communication: An interview with David Hernández Palmar and Jason De Santolo. Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 5(2), 1-6.

In the media

Arai, Yoshifumi. “Inoue Yasushi shô ni Tokita shi: shinsaigo no bungaku sakuhin wo bunseki [Dr. Tokita receives the Inoue Yasushi Award for her analysis of post-earthquake literary works].” Jiji.com, 7 Oct. 2016. Web.

Iijima, Hiroki. “Inoue Yasushi shô ni Shidonî Daigaku kôshi no Tokita san [Dr. Tokita from the University of Sydney receives the Inoue Yasushi Award].” TBS NEWS-i, 8 Oct. 2016. Web.