Jun-ichi TANAKA’s Profile

1941　Born in Beijing
1966　Assistant at the Faculty of Economics of Keio University
1973　Graduated from the Doctoral Program of the Graduate School of Letters of Keio University
1973　Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics of Keio University
1989　Professor at the Faculty of Economics of Keio University
1999　Director of the Hiyoshi Library at Keio University
2006　Professor Emeritus at Keio University

Publications

• Frontiers of Contemporary Literature (co-authored, collection of interviews) , Shuppansha, 1975
• The Earth and Orange: Reading Contemporary French Poetry, Hakusuisha, 1980

Translations

• Pierre de Boisdeffre, French Poets of Today, Hakusuisha, 1975
• Louis Aragon, Collected Poems of Aragon, Holp Shuppan, 1983
• Maurice Blanchot, The Madness of the Day (co-translator), Asahi Press, 1985
• Anthology (French Literature at the End of the Century, Vol. 13, co-editor and translator), Kokushokankokai, 1985
• Mstislav Leopol'dovich Rostropovich and Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya, Russia, Music, and Freedom, Misuzu Shobo, 1987
• Albert Thibaudet, The Mallarmé Theory (co-authored), Chusekisha,1991
• Michel Leiris, Phantom Africa (co-authored), Kawade ShoboShinsha, 1995
• Michel Butor, The Unfinished Rose Garden (bilingual poetry and painting collection) , Editart-D. Blanco, 1999
• Anne Portugal, The Simplest Guise (co-translator) , Shichosha, 2000
• Anne Struve‐Debeaux (editor), Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry (co-authored), Shichosha, 2001
• Yves Bonnefoy, The Unlikely: The Poetics of Existence (co-authored), Gendaishichoshinsha, 2002
• Yves Bonnefoy, A Fence Across the Road at Twilight (bilingual poetry and art book), Editart-D. Blanco, 2006
• Jacques Roubaud, Jaques Roubaud’s Very Personal Guide to Tokyo, Suiseisha, 2011
• Jacques Roubaud, The Loop, Suiseisha, 2020

Edited Works

• Shuzo Takiguchi 1958: Traveling Gaze (co-editor), Keio University Press, 2009