Melek Ortabasi

Areas of interest

Melek Ortabasi specializes in modern Japanese and German literatures and popular culture. Her book, The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio, was published in 2014 by Harvard University Asia Center. She is currently working on a book manuscript on transnationalism and modern Japanese children's literature, tentatively entitled "A World of Friends: The Transnational Story of Modern Japanese Children's Literature."

Education

• BA in Comparative Literature (University of California, Berkeley)
• MA, PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Washington)

Biography

Melek Ortabasi teaches World Literature courses that are often informed by her research interests: translation theory and practice, popular culture and transnationalism, and internationalism in children’s literature.