Kathryn M. Tanaka (University of Chicago, PhD), associate professor at the University of Hyogo, is a Japanese literary scholar who works on the intersections of medicine, literature, and culture. Her work focuses primarily on Hansen’s disease and modern Japanese literature. In addition to work on children and gender in public sanatoria, she also has several articles about Hōjō Tamio, and has done translations of several of his stories. She has also published work on Amabie and Japanese culture in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Diane Lally, Kathryn M. Tanaka, Laura A. Bailey Smith, Floriza F. Gennari(担当:分担執筆, 範囲:Social Support Theory: Physical Isolation and Academia with Children (Diane Lally, Kathryn M. Tanaka, Laura A. Bailey Smith, Floriza F. Gennari))