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Mayako Murai
Mayako Murai is professor of English and comparative literature at Kanagawa University, Japan. She is the author of From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West (2015) and co-editor of Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures (2020), both published by Wayne State University Press. She curated the exhibition Tomoko Konoike: Fur Story held at Leeds Arts University in 2018 and co-curated the exhibition Storymakers in Contemporary Japanese Art for the Japan Foundation Sydney Gallery in 2022. She is currently writing a book on fairy-tale animals in contemporary art and picture book illustration.
Contact: Kanagawa University, 4-5-3 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, 220-8739, Japan.