Research Interests
Aki TANAKA is specializing in Vietnamese language literature, she studies the modern and contemporary history of Vietnam greatly predetermined by colonialism and war using literature as a looking glass to add new perspectives. Past research has focused on the life and works of Khái Hưng, a Vietnamese novelist of the French colonial period and founding member of the Self-Reliant Literary Group, who used to receive little academic attention due to Vietnam’s complicated history. Current research has been devoted to war literature from the defeated side and she also has a deep interest in refugee literature.
CV
2010-2012 Vietnamese Studies, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, University of Social Sciences and Humanities
2012-2015 Vietnamese Language Major, Southeast Asian Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2015-2023 Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2018-2019 Asian Studies, Graduate School of Cornell University
2023.５ Ph.D. (Academic), Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Books & Articles
Changes and Continuities in the Evaluation of a Purged Vietnamese Writer (1930s-2020s): A Case Study of Khái Hưng of the Self-Reliant Literary Group, Southeast Asian Studies, 60(2), 2023.
Representations of Colonialism and Colonizers in northern Vietnam in the 1940s: Focusing on the Texts of Vietnamese Writer Khái Hưng, Language, Area and Culture Studies, 28, 2022.
Thanh Đức by Khái Hưng of the Self-Reliant Literary Group: Reading a Vietnamese Novel Written in Prison in the French Colony, Southeast Asia: History and Culture, 50, 2021.
Một cách giải mã nhân vật tiểu thuyết của Khái Hưng (Khảo sát tác phẩm Băn khoăn), Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Sài Gòn, số 26 (51), Tháng 3-2017.
Một cách nhìn mới về Băn khoăn của Khái Hưng, Nghiên cứu Văn học, số 1, Tháng 1-2017.