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Motoko Akashi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD in Literary Translation from University of East Anglia. Her research interests centre on the commercial aspects of literary translation and translator status. Her current project, IMPACTRANS, investigates the relationship between celebrity translators in Meiji Japan (1868-1912), their social statuses, and their approaches to producing indirect translations (translations of translations), by incorporating digital humanities approaches. She is currently building a corpus of foreign literature translated into Japanese during that period on a scale that nobody has done before.
