Judy Wakabayashi

Judy Wakabayashi is professor of Japanese translation at Kent State University. After working as a translator in Japan, she received her PhD from the University of Queensland and taught Japanese-English translation at the graduate level there before taking up a position at Kent State in 2002. Her research interests include Japanese studies, the history of translation in Japan and other parts of Asia, and methods for researching and writing about translation history. Other interests include translation theory and pedagogy and fictional representations of translators. At Kent State she teaches graduate courses in Japanese-English translation and histories of translation. She is the author of Japanese–English Translation: An Advanced Guide (2020) and co-editor of Asian Translation Traditions (2005), Decentering Translation Studies: India and Beyond (2009), Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context (2012) and Translating and Interpreting in Korean Contexts (2019), as well as author of numerous articles and chapters on translation and translator of several non-fiction books.