Current Position
Aug. 2023-: Doctoral student, Department of History, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Within the ambit of the Swiss SNSF project “Rice Knowledge and Practices between Pacific Asia and West Africa”; Supervisors: Yi-Tang Lin, Martin Dusinberre
Previous Affiliations
2023: MA in International Relations, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Japan
2021: Research Student in Cultural Studies, School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan
2019: BA with High Honors in History and French, Swarthmore College, USA
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2025. (With Ichishi Iida) “Japanese Web Novels: Media History, Platform, and Narrative.” Special issue on “Methodologies,” ed. Jacqueline Berndt. Mechademia: Second Arc 17(2). PDF
Advance Access. (with Mariana Alonso Ishihara) "Multiculturalism between ideology and practice: Immigrant self-narrations of community activism in Toyota, Japan." Contemporary Japan. https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2220467. PDF
2024. “Western Elegance, Yokohama Style: College Fashion, Urban Redevelopment, and the Rise of Feminine Motomachi in Post-1970 Japan / [西洋のエレガンス、横浜流:女子大生のファッションと都市計画の関係 から見る横浜元町における1970年代以降の女性への再編成]." U.S.-Japan Women's Journal 65 (2024): 25-55. https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2024.a922154. PDF
2023. "A lesson in port citizenship: Regimes of historicity in maritime museums in Yokohama, Japan, 1961-Present.” História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography 16 (41). Ouro Preto:1-29. https://doi.org/10.15848/hh.v16i41.2091. PDF
2023. “Fantasies of Europe, fantasies of Japan: Isekai and the narrative logic of Japanese Occidentalism.” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 9(2): 281–97. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00111_1. PDF
2023. "Global history in two chronotopes: Time, identity, and the practical past in Nagasaki, Japan, 1990 and 2006." Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 27(2): 312-339. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2023.2206727. PDF
2023. "The Politics of Curating Japonisme: International Art Exhibition and Soft Power in Contemporary Japanese Cultural Diplomacy." Journal of Japonisme 8 (1): 31-66. https://doi.org/10.1163/24054992-08010001. PDF
Preprints
2024. "An off-centre pendulum: Neo-Japonisme and contemporary French identity in Michaël Ferrier's Sympathy for the Phantom." SocArXiv (2024). Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4xght. PDF
2024. "Towards a gendered procedural rhetoric: Simulating feminine domesticity in the Atelier role-playing game series." SocArXiv (2024). Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/fyeua. PDF