Dr Ruselle Meade
Lecturer in Japanese Studies
- Email:
- meader@cardiff.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)29 2068 8488
- Location:
- 1.10, 66a Park Place, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3AS
My primary area of research is modern Japanese history. I am particularly interested in the relationship between science and national identity in Japan since the mid-nineteenth century.
Before joining Cardiff University in September 2015, I was a lecturer in Japanese studies at the University of Manchester and then a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo. I was also awarded a D. Kim Foundation fellowship in the history of science in East Asia.
I obtained my PhD from the University of Manchester in 2013, and hold an MA from SOAS (London).
I originally trained as an engineer. After completing undergraduate studies, I moved to Tokyo where I worked for an intellectual property translation firm. This experience sparked my interest in history of technical translation – the focus of my doctoral research – and in the development of science and technology in Japan.
2017
- Meade, R. 2017. Popular science and personal endeavor in early-Meiji Japan: The case of Hatsumei Kiji. Historia Scientiarum 26(2), pp. 77-92.
- Meade, R. 2017. Joshua A. Fogel (2015) The Emergence of the Modern Sino-Japanese Lexicon: Seven Studies [Book Review]. Journal of Translation Studies 1(2), pp. 103-108.
2015
- Meade, R. 2015. Translating technology in Japan's Meiji Enlightenment, 1870-1879. East Asian Science, Technology and Society 9(3), pp. 253-274. (10.1215/18752160-3120392)
2011
- Meade, R. 2011. Translation of a discipline: The fate of Rankine's 'Engineering Science' in early Meiji-era Japan. The Translator 17(2), pp. 211-231. (10.1080/13556509.2011.10799487)
Module leaderships
- ML1580 Japan in Context
- ML5364 Memory & Symbols in Japan
Teaching contributions
- ML8100 Introduction to Translation Methods
- ML2201 Introduction to Specialised Translation
- ML1360 Culture, Political Protest and Dissent in the 1960s
- MLT401 Theory of Translation (postgraduate)
- MLT412 Translation and Adaptation in the Arts (postgraduate)
- MLT820 Culture, Creativity and Globalization (postgraduate)
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
My research focuses on the cultural history of science and technology in modern Japan. I am interested in how scientific and technical knowledge circulates, particularly through the processes of translation and popularization.