2014 to present, Dean of Forbes College, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

2007 spring, Visiting/Adjunct Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

2005 to 2014, Director of Studies Forbes College, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

2005 to 2006 academic year, Visiting/Adjunct Professor of Japanese Film and Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York, New York.

1998 to 2005, Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.

1996 Research fellow in the department of Classical Literature, Faculty of Letters, Osaka University
 

PUBLICATIONS in brief

JOURNAL ARTICLES and ANTHOLOGY ENTRIES
1997 "Hagiwara Hiromichi’s theory of the principles of composition and its application to The Tale of Genji: including an index of critical terms" (Hagiwara Hiromichi no bunshō hōsoku ron to sono Genji monogatari e no tekiyō: tsuki hōsoku no sakuin). Article in Shirin (literary journal of Osaka University, distributed by Izumi shoin) 21.4 (1997): 48-63

2004 "Tree Sprits (kodama) and Apparitions (henge): Hagiwara Hiromichi's Analysis of Supernatural Events in the Yūgao and Uji Chapters" Gobun (philology journal of Osaka University, distributed by Bunshindo) 80/81 (2/2004): 137-52

2004 "Yoda Gakkai and Suematsu Kenchō: A Debate over the First Translation of Genji into English" in Ii Haruki, ed., International Japanese Literature: The World of "The Tale of Genji" Outside Japan. Tokyo: Kazama Shobō ( 6/2004)

2007 “From Morals to Melancholy: How a Japanese Critic Rejected Bakin and Learned to Love Shakespeare” in Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology, and Transformations of Modernity, Dennis Washburn and Kevin Reinhart, eds., Brill

2015 "A Critical Appraisal of Genji, 1854-1861." Introduction and foreword to translation in T. Harper and H. Shirane, eds. Reading The Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium. New York, Columbia University Press (2015): 509-11

TRANSLATIONS
1993 (a) "With Perry at Sea: The United States Navy and American Expansion." Translation of various Edo-period documents, including scrolls and paintings, for museum exhibition and accompanying booklet for the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

1993 (b) The Complete Japanese Expression Guide. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company. Translation of text from Japanese to English for Professor Mizue Sasaki's reference book on idiomatic expressions in Japanese. Reprinted 2000

2002 "Seven Essays on Murasaki Shikibu (Shika shichiron, 1703)." in H. Shirane and J. Brandon, eds., Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology (1600-1900)). New York: Columbia University Press

"Hagiwara Hiromichi’s Appraisal of Genji." Introduction and selected translation in T. J. Harper and H. Shirane, eds. A Genji Reader. Columbia University Press. Publication forthcoming

"Tsubouchi Shōyō’s Treatise on the Novel as it Relates to Genji." Introduction and selected translation in T. J. Harper and H. Shirane, eds. A Genji Reader. Columbia University Press. Publication forthcoming

 "Yoda Gakkai and Suematsu Kenchō: A Debate over Genji as a Model for the Modern Novel." Introduction and selected translation in T. J. Harper and H. Shirane, eds. A Genji Reader. Columbia University Press. Publication forthcoming

"Andō Tameakira's Seven Essays on Murasaki Shikibu." Introduction and selected translation in T. J. Harper and H. Shirane, eds. A Genji Reader. Columbia University Press. Publication forthcoming

2015 "A Critical Appraisal of Genji, 1854-1861." Translation in T. Harper and H. Shirane, eds.,  Reading The Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium. New York, Columbia University Press (2015): 511-37