Professional Profile
Education
- Yale University — Ph.D. in Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures.
- Osaka University — Research fellow, Faculty of Letters (classical literature).
- Yale University — M.A./M.Phil. in Japanese Literature & Buddhist Studies.
- Columbia University — B.A., East Asian Studies.
Academic & Administrative Experience
- Dean, Forbes College, Princeton University.
- Director of Studies, Forbes College, Princeton University.
- Visiting / Adjunct Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University.
- Visiting / Adjunct Professor of Japanese literature and film, Columbia University.
- Assistant Professor of Japanese Language & Literature, Amherst College.
- Research Fellow, Department of Classical Literature, Osaka University.
Selected Publications
- Appraising Genji: Literary Criticism and Cultural Anxiety in the Age of the Last Samurai, SUNY Press.
- Criticism and Commentary on The Tale of Genji, UMI publication of doctoral dissertation.
- “Hagiwara Hiromichi’s Theory of Composition and Its Application to Genji.” Shirin.
- “Tree Spirits (kodama) and Apparitions (henge).” Gobun.
- “Yoda Gakkai and Suematsu Kenchō.” In International Japanese Literature.
- “From Morals to Melancholy.” In Converting Cultures, Brill.
- Introductory essays and translations in Reading The Tale of Genji, Columbia University Press.
Translations
- “With Perry at Sea: The United States Navy and American Expansion.” Yale Beinecke Library exhibition materials.
- The Complete Japanese Expression Guide. Translation for Professor Mizue Sasaki, Tuttle.
- Classical and early modern Japanese translations in Early Modern Japanese Literature, Columbia University Press.
- Translations in A Genji Reader, Columbia University Press.