Rebecca Suter

Rebecca Marcella Suter is professor of Japanese studies at the University of Oslo, and a member of the European Association for Japanese Studies council.

Career Suter took an M.A. in comparative studies and a Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1999 and 2004 respectively, both from the University of Naples "L'Orientale". While researching for her Ph.D., and for a short period after, she was a lecturer in Japanese studies at the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient. From 2005 to 2007 she was at Harvard University, first as a postdoc and then as a lecturer in Japanese literature. After a spell as a visiting assistant professor at Brown University in 2007, she moved to the University of Sydney in 2008, and stayed there for some 15 years, becoming a full professor of Japanese studies and comparative literature in 2022.