Rebecca Hausler
Rebecca Hausler holds a PhD from The University of Queensland, Australia. Her thesis analysed literary representations of the riot and escape attempt of Japanese prisoners of war, commonly referred to as the Cowra Breakout. Her publications include an article in the ‘Journal of Multilingualism’ on Inoue Hisashi’s depictions of linguistic imperialism in his 1977 novel ‘Kiiroi Nezumi’, and a chapter in the 2023 edited collection ‘Border-Crossing Japanese Literature’ analysed three novels depicting Japanese internees in Australia. She was an invited speaker at The Australian National University’s Japan Institute Seminar Series in 2021, was a visiting research fellow at Showa Women’s University in Tokyo in 2023, and an invited panellist at the University of British Columbia’s Rethinking Global Japanese Studies Symposium in 2024.