Lecturer in Translation Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia

Expertise: Literary translation, gender in translation, postcolonial translation studies, the cultural history of translation in Japan

Akiko Uchiyama is a Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, where she coordinates the Master of Arts in Translation and Interpreting (MATI) program. She has research interests in literary translation, modern and contemporary Japanese literature, gender in translation, postcolonial translation studies, and the cultural history of translation in Japan. Her recent publications include ‘Shinseinen no bungaku-teki tenkai: Morishita Uson to ‘tantei shōsetsu’ no hon’yaku’ (Literary Development in Shinseinen: Morishita Uson’s Translation of Detective Novels) in Hon’yaku to bungaku (2021) and ‘The Politics of Translation in Meiji Japan’ in The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics (2018). She co-edited the collections Diverse Voices in Translation Studies in East Asia (2019) and Border-Crossing Japanese Literature: Reading Mutiplicity (2023).