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Professor Kiyoko Myojo

Roles and subjects

Visiting Senior Research Fellow in German Literature

Contact

kiyoko.myojo@jesus.ox.ac.uk

Academic Background

Kiyoko Myojo is a professor at the Faculty of Arts and Literature and the director and founder of the Research Center for Textual Scholarship at Seijo University, Japan. In 1998, she obtained her PhD from the University of Tokyo after studying at the University of Munich for three years. In 2004, she received the “Japan Society for German Literature Award” for her book, The New Kafka (in Japanese). She worked at Saitama University for 20 years, from 2000 to 2010 as an associate professor and then from 2010 to 2020 as a professor.

Research Interests

  • Franz Kafka
  • German Literature
  • Textual Scholarship
  • Comparative Literary Studies
  • Translation Studies
  • Digital Humanities

Links

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See also Kiyoko’s personal website.