Selected Publications
Books
Powers of the Real: Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“‘The Longed-For Crystal Palace’: Empire, Modernity, and Nikkatsu Mukōjima’s Glass Studio, 1913-1923.” In In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments, edited by Brian Jacobson. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming.
“Boundary Play: Truth, Fiction, and Performance in A Man Vanishes (1967).” In Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura, edited by Lindsay Coleman and David Desser. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
“From Manga to Film: Gender, Precarity and the Textual Transformation of Air Doll.” Screen 60:1 (Spring 2019): 99-121.
“Blood and Soul (1923) and the Cultural Politics of Japanese Film Reform.” positions: asia critique 26:3 (August 2018): 451-82.
“Shiage and Women’s Flexible Labor in the Japanese Animation Industry.” Feminist Media Histories, special issue on “Labor,” edited by Denise McKenna, 4:1 (Winter 2018): 115-141. (listen to podcast)
“Media Fantasies: Women, Mobility, and Silent-Era Japanese Ballad Films.” Cinema Journal 52:3 (Spring 2013): 99-119.
Fellowships and Awards
Washington University in St. Louis Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Spring 2017
Association of Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Short-Term Research Travel Grant, Summer 2016
Washington University in St. Louis Roland Grimm Travel Award and Summer Faculty Research Grant, Summer 2014
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-2013
Harvard University Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011-2012
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship, Japan, 2009-2010