2011 Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research on Japanese Literature in Australia

Congratulations to Prof. Vera Mackie who has been awarded the 2011 Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research on Japanese Literature in Australia.
Professor Vera Mackie has been awarded the 2011 Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research on Japanese Literature in Australia for her chapter 'Reading Lolita in Japan' in Girl Reading Girl in Japan, edited by Tomoko Aoyama and Barbara Hartley. For more information on the award, please visit: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/japanese/research/index.shtml
Girl Reading Girl in Japan is featured in the following blog post: http://japaneseliterature.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/the-other-womens-lib/
Girl Reading Girl in Japan has now been released in paperback and can be viewed by following the link below.
Series: Asia's Transformations
Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social...
Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
Professor Mackie is an ARC Future Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and member of the Institute for Social Transformation Research (ISTR).