Patrick Carland-Echavarria

Patrick Carland-Echavarria received his BA in English from Emmanuel College and MA in Japanese from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on postwar Japanese queer cultures, translation theory, and modern Japanese art and literature during the global Cold War. His dissertation, provisionally titled Finding the Rainbow World: Literary Translation and Transnational Queer Cultures in Cold War Japan, examines the role that queer Japanese language translators and queer transnational artistic and literary networks played in the globalization of Japanese literature, theater, and art from the end of World War II to the 1970s. In 2022, his paper “Queer Translation and Utopian Imaginaries in Postwar Japan,” was awarded the Marlene Mayo Graduate Paper Prize by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association of Asian Studies (MARAAS). For the academic year 2023-2024, he was a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies PhD Fellow and Visiting Researcher at Waseda University in Tokyo. His other research interests include modern Japanese art, queer studies, feminism, affect theory, and visual media studies.