Lecturer, Japan Centre
Email: Mark.Gibeau@anu.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 6125 8232
Room: e340 Baldessin Precinct Building
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Mark, who finds it difficult to refer to himself in the third person, specialises in postwar Japanese literature. He did graduate work at the Univ. of Hawaii and Stanford University, and taught Japanese literature and culture at Sapporo University in Japan for several years before coming to the ANU.
He wrote his PhD dissertation on Abe Kôbô and continues to do research on Abe. He is also interested in the relationship between literature and politics in the immediate postwar era. To put it more plainly, he is interested in why the Japanese Communist Party and the left in general thought that literature had the power to transform the country in the first few years of the postwar. He is also interested in literary translation and, most recently, the role of self-translation in Okinawan/Ryukyuan literature.
At the ANU he currently teaches Written Japanese C and D, Modern Japanese Culture, coordinates the Japan Centre's Year-in-Japan program and runs a Japanese literature reading group for intermediate level students every Friday from 3-4 in the ゆかりの間 (all welcome).
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