Cristina Rascón

Writer, Economist and Professional Japanese- English literary translator. Master’s degree in International Public Policy at Osaka University (Japan), Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Graduated in the Asian Studies Program by the Kansai Gaidai University (Japan) and She has graduate of International Seminar on Japanese Literature and Gender at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Currently participates in the Seminar on Chinese Literature and Gender (UNAM) and doctoral candidate in Hispano-American Literature from the University of Veracruz, Mexico, her research project focus on Hispano-American haiku. Since 2004, she has conducted more than 130 courses on Creative Writing and Japanese Literature, such as: What Are We Talking About When We Mention Haruki Murakami; Haiku and Other Japanese Poetry Genres; Three Female Narrators of Asia; Japanese Narrative: From the Ancient Times Until Present Day (including the Kojiki and its relation with contemporary Japanese culture and literature); How to Read Oe Kenzaburo; How to Read Kawabata; Workshops on Haiku and Tanka, amongst others. Speaker at several congresses such as: Haiku North America held at the United States with the lecture: Mexican Haiku: tradition, translation and transgression (2017); at the Literature International Congress Japanese Interface from the Vienna University with the lecture Japanese Influence on Mexican Literature (2015); at the Colloquium of Japanese Literature at UNAM with the lecture Translating Haiku on the XX Century: Metrics, Meaning and Visual Aspects (2013); and at the Seminar on Japanese Literature and Gender of UNAM, with the lecture Poet Woman in Haiku: Flower Scent, Chiyo-ni Anthology (1703-1775)