Raphaël Lambert has lived in Japan for over twenty years. He resides in Kyoto and teaches African American literature and culture in the Department of American and British Cultural Studies at Kansai University in Osaka. He has published essays in the Journal of Modern Literature, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and African American Review. His book, Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community (Brill), came out in January 2019, and his co-authored essay, “Ralph Ellison and African American Literature in Post-World War II Japan: Making Blackness Visible,” has appeared in Global Ralph Ellison: Aesthetics and Politics Beyond US Borders (Peter Lang 2021). He is currently co-editing The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century (Brill), and his latest essay, “Translating Diversity from Ralph Ellison to Kenzaburō Ōe,” is upcoming in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.
