Lavelle Isabelle

College of Humanities and Sciences Department of General StudiesAssociate Professor

Degree

  • Ph.D., Paris Diderot/Waseda

Research Keyword

  • Translation Studies
  • French Literature
  • Japanese Literature
  • World Literature
  • Comparative Literature
  • Literature

Field Of Study

  • Humanities & social sciences, Literature - Japanese, Comparative Literature

Career

  • Apr. 2023 - Present
    Nippon Bunri University, Associate Professor
  • Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2023
    Nihon University, College of Humanities and Science, Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2020
    Waseda University, School of International Liberal Studies, Assistant Professor
  • Sep. 2010 - Mar. 2011
    Paris Diderot University, Langues étrangères appliquées, Teaching Assistant

Educational Background

  • Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2018
    Waseda University, Graduate School of International Culture and Communications, Ph.D.
  • Sep. 2010 - Jun. 2016
    Paris Diderot University, Languages and Civilisations from Oriental Asia, Ph.D.
  • Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2015
    Waseda University, Graduate School of International Culture and Communications, Masters
  • Sep. 2008 - Jun. 2010
    Paris Diderot University, Languages and Civilisations from Oriental Asia, Masters
  • Sep. 2008 - Jun. 2010
    Paris Sorbonne University, French Literature, Masters
  • Sep. 2005 - Jun. 2008
    Paris Sorbonne University, French Literature, Bachelor of Arts

Paper

  • La traduction comme création littéraire. Le Symbolisme français dans le Japon de Meiji.
    Lavelle Isabelle
    Littera, Mar. 2022, Refereed
  • Who Are You to Speak in My Name? Authors, Translators, and Stolen Voices in Pre-War Japanese Literature
    Isabelle Lavelle
    The Journal of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nihon University, Sep. 2021, Refereed
  • Translating Modernity: World Literature in Meiji Japan
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Transcommunication, Mar. 2019, Refereed, Invited
  • “Anti-Modern” Japonism. The Japanese Reception of Pierre Loti
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Furansugo Furansu bungaku kenkyū (Studies on French Language and French Literature), Aug. 2018, Refereed, Not invited
  • Anywhere Out of the World. Translating Décadence in Japanese Literature, 1895-1925
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Waseda University, Mar. 2018, Refereed, Not invited
  • Littérature et imposure. Identités narratives dans l’œuvre de Dazai Osamu
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Paris Diderot University, Jun. 2016, Refereed, Not invited
  • Tokutomi Kenjirō’s Hototogisu: A Worldwide Japanese Best-Seller In The Early Twentieth Century? – A Comparative Study of the English and French Translations
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Transcommunication, Mar. 2016, Refereed, Not invited

MISC

  • Compte-rendu. Yamada Toyoko, « Furansu kabure » no tanjō — Myōjō no jidai (Naissance de la « fièvre francophile ». L’époque de Myōjō, 1900-1927), Tokyo, Fujiwara shoten, 2015, 271 p.”
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Ebisu. Études japonaises, Dec. 2017, Refereed, Not invited

Books and other publications

  • La Déchéance d'un homme
    Dazai Osamu; Patrick Honoré; Isabelle Lavelle; Guillaume Loire, Joint work, Postface : Dazai Osamu, or the Fictions of Being
    IMHO, Oct. 2024
    9782364810938
  • 読み書き慣れるフランス語練習帳
    川口 陽子; Isabelle LAVELLE
    早美出版社, Oct. 2020, Not refereed
    4860420772

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • Nagai Kafū’s Composite Script in Sangoshū: Positioning the Translator’s Cosmopolitan Self
    Isabelle Lavelle
    EAJS 2023, Aug. 2023, Not invited
  • Translating Women in Modern Japan: Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality in Translated Texts, 1871-2021.
    Lavelle Isabelle; Martínez Sirés Paula; Millán Martín Alberto; Furukawa Hiroko
    Association for Asian Studies 2022 Annual Conference, Mar. 2022
  • Re-Claiming A World Classic? The Back Translation of Arthur Waley’s The Tale of Genji.
    Lavelle Isabelle
    Association for Asian Studies 2022 Annual Conference, Mar. 2022
  • Writing Like a Girl. Male Authors and the Performance of Female Narrative Voices in 1930s Japanese Literature.
    Lavelle Isabelle
    16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Aug. 2021
  • From Chanson to Uta. The Canonization of French Symbolist Poetry in Early 20th Century Japan.
    Isabelle LAVELLE
    Textual Heritage for the 21st Century, Mar. 2021, Not invited
  • Aestheticizing Symbolism. The role of Ueda Bin’s Translation Strategies in the Japanese Reception of French Poetry in the 1900s
    Asian Studies Conference, Jun. 2019, Not invited
  • Translating Modernity: World Literature in Meiji Japan
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Waseda GSICCS 5th Anniversary Symposium, Dec. 2018, Invited
  • Translating the Fin de Siècle: Ueda Bin’s Translation Theory and the Language of Poetry in Meiji Japan
    Isabelle Lavelle
    The International Association for Japan Studies 14th Convention, Dec. 2018, Not invited
  • “Anti-Modern” Japonism. The Japanese Reception of Pierre Loti
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Japanese Society for French Language and Literature Annual Symposium, Oct. 2017, Not invited
  • Re-reading Western Literature as I- Novels. On Dazai Osamu’s Onna no kettô
    Isabelle Lavelle
    25th Japanese Association of Comparative Literature Conference, Oct. 2014, Not invited
  • Female Voices Uttered by a Male Author. Is Feminism a Valid Filter to Read Dazai Osamu’s Female Narrations?
    Isabelle Lavelle
    14th EAJS International Conference, Aug. 2014, Not invited
  • A Rhetoric of Compassion? Dazai Osamu’s Literature and Emotional Blackmail
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Center for Japanese Studies (CEJ) PhD Workshop, Dec. 2013, Not invited
  • An Author’s Games With His Self Image: Dazai Osamu and the Building of the Author Figure
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Journée Francophone de la Recherche au Japon, Nov. 2013, Not invited
  • Japanese Modern Writers and European Literature: Inspiration or Imitation? Dazai Osamu’s Sarumenkanja and the Dilemma of Having to Compose with an Overwhelming Foreign Influence
    Isabelle Lavelle
    1st EAJS Japan Conference, Sep. 2013, Not invited
  • Memories of Romanticism in Merry Christmas from Dazai Osamu
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Symposium “Traces Of Memory” organised by Waseda University International Institute for Japanese Literature and Culture, with CEJ (Center for Japanese Studies),INALCO, Oct. 2012, Not invited
  • No Longer Human, or How to Translate a Title
    Isabelle Lavelle
    Workshop with Nagoya University / Paris Diderot University / Freie Universität Berlin Bunkano kyôetsu to honyaku 文化の境越と翻 訳 (Trans-culturalism and Translation), Jan. 2011, Not invited
  • “Pose” and Metafiction in Dazai Osamu’s Works – Between Dandysme and Buffoonery
    Isabelle Lavelle
    5th International Symposium of Japanese Studies, Ochanomizu University, Dec. 2010, Not invited

Courses

  • Japanese Literature
    Present
    Nihon University
  • Japanese language
    Paris Diderot University
  • Comparative literature
    Waseda University School of International Liberal Studies

Affiliated academic society

  • JAPAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
  • European Association for Japanese Studies
  • JAPANESE SOCIETY OF FRENCH LINGUISTICS