Luciana Sanga

Luciana Sanga studies modern and contemporary Japanese fiction, with a focus on popular literature, genre, and gender studies. Her work has appeared in the U.S. Japan-Women’s Journal, Japanese Language and Literature, Review of Japanese Culture and Society, and Proceedings for the Association of Japanese Literary Studies. She is currently completing her book manuscript of the genre of love novels in Japan. 

Luciana holds a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Stanford University and a B.A. in history from the University of Tokyo. 

Before coming to Yale, she taught Japanese literature and language at Northwestern University, and was a visiting research scholar at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. At Yale, she teaches classes on Japanese literature.  

Selected publications: 

From Girls’ Novels to Love Novels: Female Friendship in Yuikawa Kei’s Sayonara, Insecurity and Sweetheart Nearby 

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/862536

Tanabe Seiko, Feminism, and the Making of a Love Novel 

Tanabe Seiko, Feminism, and the Making of a Love Novel | Japanese Language and Literature (pitt.edu)

https://guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/news/news/Japanese-Studies-Spotlight-Fuzoku-zasshi