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Education

Yale University New Haven, CT, USA

Ph.D., Film and Media Studies & East Asian Languages and Literatures Expected 2023

Graduate Certificate, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies January 2022

Graduate Certificate, College Teaching Preparation Program January 2022

M.Phil., Film and Media Studies & East Asian Languages and Literatures December 2019

M.A., East Asian Languages and Literatures December 2018

Waseda University Tokyo, Japan

Visiting Research Fellow, Graduate School of International Culture and Comm. Fall 2020 – Present

Supported by the Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Award and
the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale's Dissertation Prize Fellowship

Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies Yokohama, Japan

Graduate Certificate, 10-Month Intensive Language Program June 2014

Supported by the Parker Huang Travel Research Fellowship

Yale University New Haven, CT, USA

B.A. with Distinction, Film Studies and East Asian Studies May 2013

Howard R. Lamar Prize for Outstanding Work in the Field of Film Studies


Invited Lectures and Discussions

"Nihon ni okeru animēshon: gainenteki rekishi to 1950-nendai no jōkyō" Online

Sun Academy Nihongo Center Summer Japanese Language Program in Tokyo July 2021


“How do Animated Documentaries ‘Face History’?” Online

Documentary History and Theory Course, Univ. of North Carolina Wilmington October 2020

Senga, manga, byōga, dōga: A Conceptual History of ‘Animation’ in Japan” New Haven, CT, USA

Global Film and Media Concepts Course, Yale University February 2020

“Japanese Animation Today” Bronxville, NY, USA

Asia Summit Speaker Series, Sarah Lawrence College November 2019

Princess Iron Fan (1941) and the Influence of the Wan Brothers in Japan” Bronxville, NY, USA

Experimental Film and Animation Course, Sarah Lawrence College April 2019

Panel Discussion on Ochōfujin no gensō (1940) and Hana chirinu (1938) New Haven, CT, USA

Kinema Club XVIII: Gender & Sexuality in Japanese Film, Yale University February 2019

“Locating ‘the World of the Character’ Through Kimi no na wa (2016)” New Haven, CT, USA

Yale Contemporary Architecture Colloquium on Digital Ecologies February 2018

“Documenting Animation: Useful Tools for the Study of Film and Media” Bronxville, NY, USA

Fundamentals of Nonfiction Animation Course, Sarah Lawrence College November 2017

Conference Participation

Re-Gendering the 'Animator'” Online

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco January 2023


In the Schoolhouse, On the Streets, As Cultural Form: Animation Before Anime” Online

Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference, Teesside University June 2022


'Animator' as Gendered Appellation? An Intermedial Approach to Women's Work on Animated Media

Performing Intermediality Online Symposium, Waseda University December 2021


Schoolhouse Screenings, Puppet Films, and the Child Spectator-Collaborator” Online

Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference, Tulane University June 2021


“Mochinaga Tadahito and the Question of Chinese, Japanese, and American Animation” Online

Association for Chinese Animation Studies Inaugural Conference, HKUST May 2021

“Animation in Times of Pandemic” Online

Suspensions of Concentration: Kimetsu no yaiba and Blockbuster

in the Year of the Global Pandemic, Waseda University March 2021

“Archival Traces of 1950s Child Spectators and the Possibility of the Child Collaborator” Online

Beyond Theorizing Anime: Voices and Archiving, Niigata University March 2021

“Troubling Texts, Resistant Readings: Looking Anew at Isu and Aosu” New Haven, CT, USA

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium, Yale University February 2020

“Beyond the Outer Limits: On the Crisis of Masculinity in Some Films by Kuri Yōji” Lisbon, Portugal

Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference, Universidade Lusófona June 2019

“Is This Anime? Writing Early Animated Television Commercials Tübingen, Germany

into the History of Japanese Animation”

‘Doing Animation History’ Winter School, University of Tübingen March 2019

“Beyond Anime? Rethinking Japanese Animation History Through Seattle, WA, USA

Early Animated Television Commercials”

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Sheraton Grand March 2019

Manga, mangaka, manga eiga: Kuri Yōji’s Intermedial Animation” Kyoto, Japan

Mechademia in Asia Conference, Kyoto Manga Museum May 2018

“Rethinking Japanese Animation History Through TV Commercials” New York City, NY, USA

Advertising Film Workshop, New York University April 2018

Graduate Student Panelist Los Angeles, CA, USA

Technologies of East Asian Performance Conference, UCLA March 2018

“The Films of 1954: Redefining the Japanese ‘Self’ in the Postwar Era” Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

Association for Asian Studies New England Conference, Boston College January 2017

Fellowships and Awards

Council on East Asian Studies Dissertation Prize Fellowship 2020 – 2023

Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Doctoral Fellowship Award 2020 – 2021

Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate for Public Communication 2020

Society for Animation Studies Best Graduate Student Paper, Winner 2018

Council on East Asian Studies Summer Travel and Research Grant ’18, ’19, ‘20

Richard U. Light Fellowship for East Asian Language Study ‘10, ‘12, ‘13, ’17, ‘18

Society for Animation Studies Best Graduate Student Paper, Runner-up 2017

Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies Travel Research Award 2016


Academic Service and Programming

Vice Chairperson, 25th Anniversary Conference of Japan Society for Animation Studies 2023

Board Member, Society for Animation Studies 2020 – Present

Reviewer, Animation Studies 2022 Present

Reviewer, Yale Undergraduate Research Journal 2020 – Present

Assist with Film Practitioners' Campus Visits at Yale 2016 2020

Guests include: Miyazaki Hayao, Anno Hideaki, Suzuki Toshio,

Xu Bing, Nakadai Tatsuya, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, Giorgio Ferrero

Head Graduate Affiliate, Pauli Murray College 20172019

Co-Coordinator, “Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Cinema,” Kinema Club Conference 2019

Coordinator, “Monsters in Motion,” CEAS Spring Film Series 2018

Co-Coordinator, “The Aggressive Image,” FMS Graduate Student Conference 2018

Co-Coordinator, “Rough Cut,” FMS Works-in-Progress Series 2017 – 2018

Graduate Student Liaison, Film and Media Studies Program 2016 – 2018

Languages

English (native)

Modern Japanese (fluent, JLPT N1 certification)

Mandarin Chinese (advanced proficiency)

Classical Japanese (reading proficiency)

Research and Teaching Interests

Animation, film and media theory, East Asian cinema, gender and sexuality, manga, games, translation

Professional Memberships

Association for Asian Studies

Association for Chinese Animation Studies

Japan Society for Animation Studies 日本アニメーション学会

Modern Language Association of America 

Society for Animation Studies

Society for Cinema and Media Studies