Dr. Keiko Kamiishi received her Ph.D.(2022) and M.A.(2016) in International Area Studies from Nanzan University, Japan. She has been studying the history of Javanese literature, its connection with epics and myths, the dynamics between Indianized elements and indigenous elements, and the literary activities of court poets and scribes. Her interest also includes reception, aesthetic effect, performativity, prosody, and metaphors in the literature.

Her dissertation explored how the Javanese unique aesthetic sense manifests in the literature by interpreting the metaphors and emotional expression in a specific literary work titled Kakawin Ghaṭotkacāśraya.

After completing the dissertation, she worked as a part-time Lecturer in Indonesian grammar.

Currently, she joined the ERC project as a post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is dealing with Old Javanese poetries translated into Modern Javanese in the 18^th and 19^th centuries, with the perspective of examining modern Muslim translators’ interpretation of ancient literature based on Hindu-Javanese culture.