KATALIN DALMI

Last Updated :2025/06/05

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
E-mail
dalmihiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
My research interests focus on Haruki Murakami's works and magical realism. I am also interested in the reception of Japanese literature in Hungary as well as the works of contemporary Japanese female writers.

Basic Information

Research Fields

  • Humanities;Literature;Japanese literature

Research Keywords

  • Contemporary Japanese Literature
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Magical Realism
  • Japanology

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Reading Modern Japanese Literature B

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Voices of Abused Children in Contemporary Japanese Fiction: Sayaka Murata's Tadaima Tobira and Chikyuseijin (in English), Bulletin of the Research Center for the Technique of Representation, 27-43, 20220331
  2. Haruki Murakami and the Magical Realism - The 1980s in The Dancing Dwarf (in Japanese), Kindaibungakushiron, 67-77, 2014
  3. Study on Haruki Murakami's TV People - Focusing on the Reality Depicted by a Magical Realist Writer (In Japanese), Kindaibungakushiron, 55-67, 2016
  4. Reprint : Nagayo Michiyo "Dekkansho"(1), 19-33, 2016
  5. Magical Realism and the World of Images in Haruki Murakami's Thailand (in Japanese), Kokubungakkou, 1-13, 2017
  6. 'Europe' in Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore-Focusing on the Relationship with 'Magischer Realismus' and the Motif of 'Anschluss' (in Japanese), Kindaibungakushiron, 53-68, 2018
  7. Haruki Murakami's Literature and Magical Realism (PhD Dissertation), 2019
  8. Japanese Literature in Contemporary Hungary: Trends in Translation and the Influence of Haruki Murakami, Archiv Orientální, 89.(2.), 311-337, 20211013
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Publications such as books

  1. 2021/04, Fate in Haruki Murakami (in Japanese), The Representation of Femme Fatale and the Fate of Male Characters in Men Without Women - Focusing on 'Drive My Car,' 'The Independent Organ,' and 'Kino' (in Japanese), Tamkang University Press, 2021, 4, Scholarly Book, Joint work, 日本語, Chiu-Kuei TSENG, Miharu Nakamura (eds.), ISBN 9789578736832, 277-306
  2. 2012, Japán közmondások (Japanese Proverbs), Kelet Kiadó, 2012, Others, Joint Translation, ハンガリー語, Paczolay Gyula, Vihar Judit, Dalmi Katalin, ISBN 9786155041082, 188

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Haruki Murakami's Literature as a "Link:" A Study on the Haruki Murakami RMX Series (in Japanese), The 11th Haruki Murakami International Symposium, 2022/06/19, With Invitation, Japanese, Center for Murakami Haruki Studies Tamkang University, Tamkang University (virtual)
  2. Murakami Haruki A Wild Sheep Chase: Murakami's Fiction and Magical Realism from the Readers' Perspective (in Japanese), Katalin DALMI, 10th Murakami Haruki and Adaptation Workshop, 2021/10/16, Without Invitation, Japanese, Virtual
  3. Voices of Abused Children in the Works of Contemporary Japanese Female Writers, Katalin Dalmi, 16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS2021), 2021/08/26, Without Invitation, English, European Association for Japanese Studies, Virtual
  4. Deviations from the Japanese Version - Haruki Murakami's Literature and Magical Realism in the Light of the Wild Sheep Chase, The 10th Haruki Murakami International Symposium 2021, 2021/06/06, Without Invitation, Japanese, Centre for Murakami Haruki Studies, Tamkang University
  5. Femme Fatales and the Fate of Male Characters in Murakami Haruki's Works - Focusing on Men Without Women, The 9th Haruki Murakami International Symposium, 2020/07/04, Without Invitation, Japanese
  6. The "Resonating" Literature of Haruki Murakami - Shamanism and the World of Hungarian Folktales (in Japanese), The 7th Haruki Murakami International Symposium 2018, 2018/05, Without Invitation, Japanese, Centre for Murakami Haruki Studies, Tamkang University
  7. Haruki Murakami's "Killing Commendatore"-Metatextuality and the Future of "Narrative" (in Japanese), Shiro Atogami, Yasushi Uchida, Yoshinobu Hirano, Yumie Yamane, Katalin Dalmi, The 3rd International Symposium of Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies in 2017, 2017/11, Without Invitation, Japanese
  8. The 'Charm' of Haruki Murakami's Literature -The Reception of Haruki Murakami's Literature in Hungary (in Japanese), The 6th Haruki Murakami International Symposium 2017, 2017/07, Without Invitation, Japanese, Center of Murakami TheHaruki Studies, Tamkang University
  9. History Written by 'Magical Realism' - Focusing on Haruki Murakami's 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' (in Japanese), The 5th Haruki Murakami International Symposium 2016, 2016/05, Without Invitation, Japanese, The Center of Murakami Haruki Studies at Tamkang University
  10. Haruki Murakami and the Postmodern – Focusing on the Extratextual Reality of Texts by the Use of Magical Realism, Katalin Dalmi, 11th EAJS Workshop for Doctoral Students in Edinburgh, 2015/06, Without Invitation, English, European Association for Japanese Studies

Social Activities

Other Social Contributions

  1. Hiroshima University- Durham University - The University of Edinburgh COIL, Haruki Murakami and Magical Realism - Doing Research on Japanese Literature as a Foreigner in Japan (virtual lecture), Hiroshima University- Durham University - The University of Edinburgh, 2021/11/10, Lecturer, Others, College students
  2. The Charm of Japanese Literature for Foreign Readers, Books are Interesting!, FM Higashihiroshima, Books are Interesting!, 2020/12/02, 2020/12/02, TV or radio appearance, TV or radio program, General