Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature, Graduate Certificate in Data Science in the Humanities, HASTAC fellow
Sadahisa received his BA and MA in French Language and Literature from the University of Tokyo. He was also an exchange student at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and interned at international organizations. As a HASTAC fellow at Washington University, Sadahisa developed an autonomous system that uses large language models to transcribe 19th-century handwritten texts from the library archives. In 2023, he taught at Miami University, Ohio, as visiting faculty. For his current project, he focuses on the intersection between literature and information technology. He is interested in how to incorporate computational text analysis (natural language processing, machine learning, and AI) into research in comparative literature with a specific focus on modern Japanese, French, and English aesthetic literature.
Peer-reviewed Publications
(3) Watanabe, Sadahisa. “The Orientalized, Americanized, and Techno-Fantasized Female Body: Non-Western Women in Michel Houellebecq’s Plateforme, Soumission, and Sérotonine.” CFC (Contemporary French Civilization) Intersections, vol 4. 2025, accepted and forthcoming.
(2) Watanabe, Sadahisa. “The Economy of Whiteness: Make-Up and Female Sexuality in Transactional Modern Love in Uno Chiyo’s Early Works.” Japanese Studies, vol. 44, Issue 1, 2024, p. 69-85. DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2024.2328557
(1) Watanabe, Sadahisa. “Ambivalent Modernity and Exoticism: Japanese Doll-Like Women in Pierre Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō’s Tade kū mushi.” Japanese Language and Literature, vol. 56, no. 2, 2022, p. 299–328. DOI: 10.5195/jll.2022.194
Conference Presentations
2023 “The Sentiment Analysis of Dan Brown’s Novels: How the Plotlines Changed After The Da Vinci Code,” St. Louis Digital Humanities Showcase, St. Louis, Missouri