Aya Tanaka

Aya Tanaka’s course will detail how travel literature changed with the onset of the age of discovery. It will also address how scientific travel accounts changed the representation of reality and the intertextual relationship of the novel with travel accounts.

According to Francois Cornilliat, “As a teacher and as a scholar, Aya Tanaka is a true original, at once efficient and creative, resourceful and bold.” Lorraine Piroux believes Aya’s potential as an eighteenth-century scholar to be extraordinary, based on her research into the importance of travel narratives on the emergence of the novel. Ms. Tanaka came to Rutrgers as one of the first Transliteratures students.