Ph.D., Université Paris Cité, Jun. 2016

Ph.D., Waseda University, Mar. 2018

Translation Studies

French Literature

Japanese Literature

World Literature

Comparative Literature

Literature

Humanities & social sciences, Literature - Japanese, Comparative Literature

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

Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2018
Waseda University, Graduate School of International Culture and Communications, Ph.D.

Sep. 2010 - Jun. 2016
Paris Cité 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 Cité 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

Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Large Language Models in Intent-Aware Responses: A Study Using Six Languages
Taiga Sumi; Ayu Iida; Yasuhito Hosaka; Isabelle Lavelle; Masako Kohama; Sonoko Moriyama; Masahiko Osawa
Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, Nov. 2025, Refereed
Corresponding

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

Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa, Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature(Routledge, 2025), 226pp. ISBN 9781032545950
Isabelle Lavelle
Volupté INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF DECADENCE STUDIES, Oct. 2025, Invited

文理学部における国際日本学の構築
坂本, 惠; 田中, ゆかり; 紅野, 謙介; 高, 榮蘭; 古川, 隆久; 閑田, 朋子; 張, 麗群; 広田, 照幸; 関根, 智子; 金, 愛蘭; 李, 婷; 井上, 優; 渡, 寛法; ラヴェル, イザベル
研究紀要, Feb. 2022, Not refereed
Corresponding

Yamada Toyoko 山田登世子, « Furansu kabure » no tanjō — Myōjō no jidai 「フランスかぶれ」の誕生。「明星」の時代 (Naissance de l
Isabelle Lavelle
Ebisu, 19 Dec. 2017

Guide Bleu Japon
Collective, Joint work, La littérature japonaise
Hachette, Oct. 2025
9782017318507

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

Textual Heritage and Translation: A New Paradigm for Japanese Studies?
Isabelle Lavelle
The Future of Japanese Studies in an International Context, Jan. 2026, Not invited

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

Teaching Academic Writing in a Second Language: Cross-cultural Challenges and Potentials
Isabelle Lavelle
ACADEMIC WRITING ACROSS LANGUAGES, DISCIPLINES AND CULTURES: A SYMPOSIUM, Nov. 2020

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

Japanese Literature
Present
Nihon University

Japanese language
Paris Diderot University

Comparative literature
Waseda University School of International Liberal Studies

Mar. 2022 - Present
Association for Asian Studies

JAPAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

European Association for Japanese Studies

JAPANESE SOCIETY OF FRENCH LINGUISTICS