Kawakami, Akane, ‘Barbarian Travels: Textual Positions in "Un barbare en Asie"’, in Modern Language Review, 95.4 (2000), pp. 978–91, doi:10.2307/3736628

Kawakami, Akane, review of Charles Forsdick, Susan Marson, Reading Diversity / Lectures du Divers, in Modern Language Review, 96.3 (2001), pp. 841–42, doi:10.2307/3736803

Kawakami, Akane, review of Paul Gellings, Poésie et mythe dans l'œuvre de Patrick Modiano: le fardeau du nomade, in Modern Language Review, 98.2 (2003), pp. 469–70, doi:10.2307/3737867

Kawakami, Akane, review of Charles Forsdick, Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity: Journeys between Cultures, in Modern Language Review, 98.2 (2003), p. 472, doi:10.2307/3737870

Kawakami, Akane, ‘Illegible Writing: Michaux, Masson, and Dotremont’, in Modern Language Review, 106.2 (2011), pp. 388–406, doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.106.2.0388

Kawakami, Akane, Photobiography: Photographic Self-Writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Macé (Legenda, 2013)