Rate My Professor Laura Clark

Clark has produced key publications in prominent academic presses and journals. These include “A Stranger in a Familiar Land: A Domestic Student Relocates,” in Elizabeth Allotta (ed.), Different Perspectives, Different Cultures, Different Places: The Experiences of International and Domestic Students Studying in an Australian University (BRILL, 2023); “Murakami Haruki and Tawada Yōko: Narrativising Cultural Traumas in a Transcultural Space,” in Barbara Hartley and Akiko Uchiyama (eds), Border-Crossing Japanese Literature: Reading Multiplicity (Routledge, 2023); ‘Embodied Consequences, Doing Jishuku and Staying Home: Literary depictions of Japan’s Covid-19 disaster response,’ Gender, Place and Culture (2022); ‘Girls (and Boys) Debating Democracy in Aoi Sanmyaku,’ co-authored with Kenko Kawasaki, Japanese Studies, vol. 12, Special Issue: Youth and Democracy in Postwar Japan (2022); “Gender in Japanese Literature and Literary Studies,” co-authored with Lucy Fraser, in Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark Pendleton (eds), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (Routledge, 2020); “The Australian Literary Scene and Murakami Haruki: Nobel Laureate Heir Apparent or Marketing Overhype?,” in David Chapman and Carol Hayes (eds), Japan in Australia: Culture, Context and Connection (Routledge, 2020); ‘Masculinity as a Heteroglossic Performance in Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase,’ New Voices in Japanese Studies, vol. 9 (2017); and ‘Negotiating the Salaryman’s Hegemonic Masculinity in Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase,’ Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, vol. 15, no. 3 (2015). She serves as Editor for Literary Studies in the Japanese Studies journal and co-convened the Japanese Studies Association of Australia conference in 2025 at the University of New England.