Chapter 8: On Forging a Literary (and Academic) Life in Japan by Suzanne Kamata
Abstract
Acclaimed author Suzanne Kamata describes her fight to be taken seriously in an academic institution. She interweaves her professional life as a writer with the challenges she faced in pursuing a career in higher education and in getting creative writing recognized as an academic discipline.
About the Contributor
Suzanne Kamata (MA) has lived in Tokushima Prefecture in Japan since 1988. She is the mother of bicultural twins who have been educated exclusively in Japanese schools. She is the award-winning author and/or editor of fourteen books including the novel Indigo Girl (Gemma Media, 2019), the memoir Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2019), and the anthology Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2009). She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and is an Associate Professor at Naruto University of Education.
Citation
Kamata, S.(2020). On forging a literary (and academic) life in Japan. In D. H. Nagatomo, K. A. Brown, & M. L. Cook (Eds.), Foreign female English teachers in Japanese higher education: Narratives from our quarter (pp. 105-114). Candlin & Mynard. https://doi.org/10.47908/11/8
Acclaimed author Suzanne Kamata describes her fight to be taken seriously in an academic institution. She interweaves her professional life as a writer with the challenges she faced in pursuing a career in higher education and in getting creative writing recognized as an academic discipline.
About the Contributor
Suzanne Kamata (MA) has lived in Tokushima Prefecture in Japan since 1988. She is the mother of bicultural twins who have been educated exclusively in Japanese schools. She is the award-winning author and/or editor of fourteen books including the novel Indigo Girl (Gemma Media, 2019), the memoir Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2019), and the anthology Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2009). She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and is an Associate Professor at Naruto University of Education.
Citation
Kamata, S.(2020). On forging a literary (and academic) life in Japan. In D. H. Nagatomo, K. A. Brown, & M. L. Cook (Eds.), Foreign female English teachers in Japanese higher education: Narratives from our quarter (pp. 105-114). Candlin & Mynard. https://doi.org/10.47908/11/8
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Title: Foreign Female English Teachers in Japanese Higher Education: Narratives From Our Quarter
Editors: Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie Lorie Cook
Publication date: August 2020
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Title: Foreign Female English Teachers in Japanese Higher Education: Narratives From Our Quarter
Editors: Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie Lorie Cook
Publication date: August 2020
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