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 post-war Japanese queer cultures, translation theory, and modern Japanese art and literature during the global Cold War. His dissertation, provisionally titled Finding The Rainbow World: Translation, Affect, and U.S.-Japan Queer Literary Exchange in the Early Cold War, re-examines the English-language translation and subsequent globalization of modern Japanese art and literature in the 1950s and 1960s from a queer and translation studies perspective.  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 will be conducting research at Waseda University in Tokyo as a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellow. His other research interests include premodern Japanese literature, transnational LGBTQ and Cold War history, feminism, affect theory, and visual media studies.