Dr Akiko Uchiyama
MATI (Japanese) Program Convenor
Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56331
Researcher biography
Dr Akiko Uchiyama specialises in translation studies and her research interests include postcolonial translation theory, gender in translation, girls' fiction in translation and the history of translation in Japan. She is the Convenor of the Master of Arts in Japanese Interpreting and Translation (MAJIT) program, and is accredited by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters as a professional translator.
| Featured projects | Duration |
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| BORDERS | 2023 |
Publications
Book Chapters
Hartley, Barbara and Uchiyama, Akiko (2023). Introduction. Border-crossing Japanese literature. (pp. 1-22) edited by Akiko Uchiyama and Barbara Hartley. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003143178-1
Uchiyama, Akiko (2023). Sydney!. Border-crossing Japanese literature. (pp. 161-174) edited by Akiko Uchiyama and Barbara Hartley. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003143178-12
内山明子 (Uchiyama, Akiko) (2021). 『新青年』の文学的展開 ― 森下雨村と「探偵小説」の翻訳. 翻訳と文学. (pp. 151-178) edited by Nano Sato-Rossberg. Tokyo, Japan: Misuzu Shobo.
Sato-Rossberg, Nana and Uchiyama, Akiko (2019). Introduction. Diverse Voices in Translation Studies in East Asia. (pp. 1-6) edited by Nana Sato-Rossberg and Akiko Uchiyama. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang.
Uchiyama, Akiko (2019). Translating as writing: Wakamatsu Shizuko's empathetic translation as a creative literary art. Diverse Voices in Translation Studies in East Asia. (pp. 77-97) edited by Nana Sato-Rossberg and Akiko Uchiyama. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang.
Uchiyama, Akiko (2018). The politics of translation in Meiji Japan. The Routledge handbook of translation and politics. (pp. 455-466) edited by Jonathan Evans and Fruela Fernandez. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315621289
Uchiyama, Akiko (2012). Assimilation or resistance? Yukichi Fukuzawa's digestive translation of the West. Translation and translation studies in the Japanese context. (pp. 73-91) edited by Nana Sato-Rossberg and Judy Wakabayashi. London, United Kingdom: Continuum International Publishing Group.
内山明子 [Uchiyama, Akiko] (2011). 福沢諭吉の西洋思想の翻訳と受容―「ポストコロニアル」を視座に . トランスレーション・スタディーズ. (pp. 47-89) edited by ロスベアグ·ナナ編 [Nana Sato-Rossberg]. Tokyo, Japan: みすず書房 [Misuzu Shobo].
Uchiyama, Akiko (2010). Japanese girl's comfort reading of Anne of Green Gables. Girl reading girl in Japan. (pp. 92-104) edited by Aoyama, Tomoko and Hartley, Barbara. Abingdon, Oxon., U.K. ; New York, U.S.A.: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203869062
Uchiyama, Akiko (2009). Translation as representation: Fukuzawa Yukichi's representation of the "Others". Agents of Translation. (pp. 63-83) edited by Milton, John and Bandia, Paul. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Journal Articles
Uchiyama, Akiko (2023). The Translator’s Visibility: The Case of Muraoka Hanako. In Touch: Magazine of the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators, 31 (1), 18-19.
Dianati, Seb, Uchiyama, Akiko and Akagawa, Natsuko (2022). Applications of technologies in T&I courses in Australia: perceptions of T&I academics. Journal of Translation and Language Studies, 3 (2), 50-80. doi: 10.48185/jtls.v3i2.511
Dianati, Seb, Taptamat, Nantana, Uchiyama, Akiko and Akagawa, Natsuko (2022). Factors that influence Translation and Interpreting technology adoption by university instructors, through the lens of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Journal of Translation and Language Studies, 3 (1), 12-28. doi: 10.48185/jtls.v3i1.439
Uchiyama, Akiko (2020). Review of A cultural history of translation in early modern Japan. Translation Studies, 14 (1), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/14781700.2020.1719540
Uchiyama, Akiko (2015). 1970-nendai to Murakami Haruki: 'America' o shiza to suru hon'yaku. Hon’yaku Kenkyu eno Shōtai, 14, 39-54.
Uchiyama, Akiko (2014). Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls' Culture in Japan. Asian Studies Review, 38 (1), 151-152. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2014.870958
Uchiyama, Akiko (2014). Akage no An in Japanese girl culture: Muraoka Hanako's translation of Anne of Green Gables. Japan Forum, 26 (2), 209-223. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2014.900513
Uchiyama, Akiko (2013). Meeting the New Anne Shirley: Matsumoto Yuko's Intimate Translation of Anne of Green Gables. TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction, 26 (1), 153-175. doi: 10.7202/1036953ar
Uchiyama, Akiko (2008). Yukichi Fukuzawa: The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, trans. Eiichi Kiyooka. Asian Studies Review, 32 (3), 447-448. doi: 10.1080/10357820802302520
Uchiyama, A. (2000). A cry for identity: A case study of Maori-English cultural translation. Translation Quarterly: Translation & Ideology (16 & 17), 79-91.
Conference Paper
Uchiyama, A. (2004). What Japanese girls read. 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Canberra, 29 June - 2 July 2004. Canberra: ASAA Asian Studies Association of Australia.
Thesis
Uchiyama, Akiko (2007). Translation, power, postcoloniality Fukuzawa Yukichi’s translation of the West. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/145673
Creative Works
Uchiyama, Akiko (2021). Kuiinzurando Daigaku Daigakuin: Daigaku ni okeru tsūyaku-sha hon'yaku-sha yōsei no torikumi. Tokyo, Japan: Simul International.
Tsushima, Yuko (original author), Fraser, Lucy (co-translator) and Uchiyama, Akiko (co-translator) (2020). Tōkina-to: The Story of the Owl God’s Little Sister. Iowa City, IA, United States: Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation.