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M.V. Lakshmi

M.V. Lakshmi
M.V. Lakshmi
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Japanese Studies,
School of Language Literature and Culture Studies
Room No
107
Off. Phone
011-26704215
Email
mvlakshmi[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, mvlakshmi[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications
  • Ph.D. awarded by Jawaharlal Nehru University, Ph.D. Thesis title: ‘Changing Image of India in Modern Japanese Literature: A study of Modern Japanese fiction of the period 1918-2000)
Areas of Interest/Specialization
  • Modern Japanese Literature
  • Travel literature
  • Modern Japanese Children’s literature
  • Comparative Culture
  • Folklore, Folk Culture
  • Translation of literary texts
Experience
  • 2002 January- 2017 February : Assistant Professor
  • 2017 February to present: Associate Professor 
Awards & Honours

  • Awarded Hojo Research Fellowship to visit Japan for fieldwork and material Collection from October to November 2009

  • Awarded Short term Programme for Foreign Teachers of the Japanese Language conducted by the Japan Foundation Japanese -Language Institute, Urawa from February 1, 2006, to March 24, 2006

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

  • M.V.Lakshmi, Unit writer for Certificate Course in Japanese Language for Uttarakhand University for main textbook and exercise book respectively, in 2017

  • M. V. Lakshmi, Hideo Hosokawa, P.A. George (Editors), Japanese Language Education” A Bridge between Language and culture, Northern Book Centre, 2012

  • Sakura, Textbook and Workbook for Class 8 (Co-authored), In collaboration with Textbook preparation team, Japan Foundation, CBSE, Goyal Publishers, 2009

  • Momo, Textbook and Workbook for Class 7 (Co-authored), In collaboration with Textbook preparation team, Japan Foundation, CBSE; Goyal Publishers, New Delhi ,2008

  • Ume, Textbook and Workbook for Class 6 (Co-authored), In collaboration with Textbook preparation team, Japan Foundation, CBSE; Goyal Publishers, New Delhi, 2006

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

  • Lakshmi, M.V. A bond between a Japanese and an Indian formed over letters: The Japanese Wife by Kunal Basu in Journal of Japanese Studies: Exploring Multidisciplinarity (JJSEM), December 2023

  • Lakshmi, M.V. India Imagined and Imaged: ‘Travel to India’ in Modern Japanese Fiction and Non-fiction, in India and the Traveller Aspects of the Travelling Identity, Ed. Rita Banerjee, Bloomsbury, 1 January 2022, ISBN-13‏: ‎ 978-9354355912, (Manohar Publishers and Distributors), pp 215-231

  • Lakshmi, M.V. "A Contemporary Indian Expatriate View of Japan: Orienting an Indian in Japan by Pallavi Aiyar", Journal of Japanese Studies Exploring Multidisciplinarity, January 2022, Volume 1, Number 1, pp523-534, Dhaka (ISSN: 2789-3014)

  • Lakshmi M.V., India in Fukai Kawa: A Study of Lexicon in Interlinking Linguistics and Literature to Read Japanese Literary Texts, Ed. Janashruti Chandra, Northern Book Centre, New Delhi, 2018, ISBN 81-7211-386-2

  • Lakshmi, M.V. Defining the Japanese Gaze on India in Postwar fiction: A Case Study of Mishima Yukio’s Hojo no Umi, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies on Humanities, Volume IX, No. 3, 2017, pp 142-150