Kitamura Sae
Kitamura Sae | |
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北村紗衣 | |
Kitamura in 2018, at the Wikipedia:15 event | |
| Born | April 12, 1983 Shibetsu, Hokkaido, Japan |
| Occupations | Literary scholar, Literary critic |
| Known for | 英日翻訳ウィキペディアン養成プロジェクト |
| Awards | 10th Awards of The Association for Studies of Culture and Representation, 14th Women's History Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | King's College London University of Tokyo Hokkaido Asahikawa Higashi High School |
| Thesis | The Role of Women in the Canonisation of Shakespeare From Elizabethan Theatre to the Shakespeare Jubilee (2013) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ann Thompson and Hannah Crawforth |
| Other advisors | Shōichirō Kawai and Yasunari Takada |
| Influences | William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | British literature, Literary criticism |
| Sub-discipline | William Shakespeare, performing arts, feminist literature |
| Institutions | Musashi University |
| Notable ideas | Inner Maggie |
| Website | Commentarius Saevus |
Kitamura Sae (Japanese: 北村 紗衣; born 12 April 1983) is a Japanese scholar specialising in British literature and a literary critic. A graduate of the University of Tokyo and King's College London, her primary areas of research are William Shakespeare, the history of performing arts, and feminist literature. She is also an active Wikipedian, encouraging students to translate articles from English Wikipedia to Japanese Wikipedia in her classes.
Kitamura has been a professor at Musashi University since 2023. She was formerly a lecturer and associate professor at Musashi University from 2014 to 2023, and a director of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation in 2019. Some of her works include Women Who Enjoyed Shakespeare's Plays, Sugar, Spice, and Something Explosive, and The Classroom of Critique. She also writes essays about synesthesia.