Cécile Sakai#
| Membership Number: | 5088 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr |
Present and Previous Positions
- 09/2019 Professor at Paris Diderot University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (on return)
- 09/2016 - 08/2019 Director of the French Research Institute on Japan at Maison franco-japonaise (Tokyo, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CNRS)
- 12/2014 - 01/2015 Visiting Professor, Tokyo University, Department of Culture and Representation
- 03/2014 - 08/2016 Elected Administrator of the Central Council of Paris Diderot University
- 3-19/07/2011 Visiting Professor, National Institute of Japanese Literature (Kokubungaku Kenkyû shiryôkan)
- 05/2007 - 06/2009 Vice-President of Paris Diderot University, in charge of Cultural and Student Affairs.
- 09/2006 - 01/2007 Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities.
- 01/2001 - 01/2006 Dean of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- 09/2000 - 08/2016 Professor at Paris Diderot University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- 09/1988 - 08/2000 Assistant Professor at Paris Diderot University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and member of the CRCAO (Centre de Recherche sur les Civilisations de l'Asie Orientale)
- 09/1983 - 08/1988 Lecturer in Japanese at Paris Diderot University and Sorbonne nouvelle University
Fields of Scholarship
- Sociology of literature
- Modern Japanese literature
- Translation studies
- Poetics
- Translation
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Prize for Research on Popular Literature (Japan)
- 1998 Konishi Prize for Literary Translation (for the Translators group of Tanizaki’s Pléiade edition, Japan)
- 2001 Konishi Prize for Literary Translation (with Anne Bayard-Sakai, for the Translation of Enchi Fumiko’s Onnazaka, Japan)
- July 2019 Ordre National du Mérite (Chevalier)
