Japanese Studies Scholar and Translation Expert
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Catholic University of LouvainKanako Goto serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at Université catholique de Louvain and Associate Professor at the University of Liège in Belgium, where she teaches Japanese Language, Literature, and Civilization. Born in Kobe, Japan, she completed her PhD in French Contemporary Literature and Rhetoric at the University of Liège in 2008. Her research spans across Japanese studies, translation studies, and comparative linguistics, with particular focus on cultural transmission between Eastern and Western civilizations. As a sworn translator for the Court of First Instance in Belgium, she brings practical expertise to her academic work in French-Japanese translation. Her scholarly contributions include significant works on literary rewriting, particularly her book on Raymond Queneau's "Exercices de style" and collaborative works on transtextual issues in modern French literature. She currently serves as Maître de langue at the Institut des Langues Vivantes, where she has been teaching since 2011