Hanako Yamasaki

Hanako Yamasaki received her Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in the Spring of 2025. She double-majored in Comparative Literature and Philosophy, with a minor in East Asian Studies. In the Department of Comparative Literature, she wrote an honors thesis under the supervision of Professor Cathy Caruth and Professor Andrew Campana. Her thesis concerns woundedness as conveyed through depictions of the bombing of Hiroshima within literature, film, architecture, and art. She has also co-translated two essays by Mishima Yukio, which were published in the Review of Japanese Culture and Society by the University of Hawaiʻi Press. At Yale, she intends to expand upon her study of Japanese literature, film, and representation more broadly. In particular, Hanako focuses on wound narratives in relation to empire and national memory.