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Education
Yale University New Haven, CT, USA
Ph.D., Film and Media Studies & East Asian Languages and Literatures May 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 2017 – 2019
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