Justyna Weronika Kasza is an associate professor at Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, Japan. She has taught courses in Japanese language, literature, and translation at universities in England and Poland. She is the recipient of the Japan Foundation Fellowships and has conducted her research at Sophia University in Tokyo. Her research interests include the works of Endō Shūsaku, life-writing narratives in Japan, world literature and translation theories.

• Self and subjectivity in contemporary Japanese fiction – theories in autobiography (Paul Ricoeur, Philippe Lejeune, John Paul Eakin, Serge Doubrovsky) – world literature – comparative literature – cultural translation – cognitive functions of untranslatability – authorship in Japanese literature

Justyna Weronika Kasza is an associate professor at Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, Japan. She has taught courses in Japanese language, literature, and translation at universities in England and Poland. She is the recipient of the Japan Foundation Fellowships and has conducted her research at Sophia University in Tokyo. Her research interests include the works of Endō Shūsaku, life-writing narratives in Japan, world literature and translation theories.

• Self and subjectivity in contemporary Japanese fiction – theories in autobiography (Paul Ricoeur, Philippe Lejeune, John Paul Eakin, Serge Doubrovsky) – world literature – comparative literature – cultural translation – cognitive functions of untranslatability – authorship in Japanese literature

Justyna Weronika Kasza is an associate professor at Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, Japan. She has taught courses in Japanese language, literature, and translation at universities in England and Poland. She is the recipient of the Japan Foundation Fellowships and has conducted her research at Sophia University in Tokyo. Her research interests include the works of Endō Shūsaku, life-writing narratives in Japan, world literature and translation theories.

• Self and subjectivity in contemporary Japanese fiction – theories in autobiography (Paul Ricoeur, Philippe Lejeune, John Paul Eakin, Serge Doubrovsky) – world literature – comparative literature – cultural translation – cognitive functions of untranslatability – authorship in Japanese literature