Dr Dennitza Gabrakova

Profile

Dr. Gabrakova completed her PhD in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies at the University of Tokyo in 2007, taught at City University of Hong Kong from 2008 to 2017 and joined Victoria University of Wellington in 2017 as Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies. She has published in the area of modern and contemporary literature and cultural history of Japan on topics ranging from urban, post-urban and anti-urban space, development, historical trauma and identity to intersections of postcolonial theories, translation studies and the environmental humanities.