Research Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles 

 “In Ohio, Old Men Do Not Turn into Young Girls’: Queer Exiles and Utopian Imaginaries in Occupation Period Japan.” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Volume 32, Issue 1 (March 2025), 37-61.

“We Do Not Live to Be Productive: Rhetoric, Assembly, and the Evolution of LGBT Activism in Contemporary Japan.” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Volume 20, Issue 2, Number 1, January 2022, pp. 1-24.

Edited Book Chapters

“‘My Dearest Bosom Friend’: Female Friendship and School Life in Akage no An (Red-Haired Anne).” Studio Ghibli Films as Adaptations: Investigating How the Japanese Animation Powerhouse Reimagine Stories, edited by Dominic J. Nardi and Keli C. Fancher (Bloomsbury, 2025), pp. 103-118.

“From Male Colors to Same-Sex Love: The Creation of Homosexuality in Modern Japanese Art,” The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869-1930,” (Phaidon, 2025), pp. 268-274.

“LGBTQ Activism in Contemporary Japan: Prospects and Perspectives.” Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan, edited by Kimiko Tanaka & Helaine Selin (New York: Springer Publishing, 2023): pp. 439-454.

“The Curatorial Seminars.” Arthur Tress And the Japanese Illustrated Book, edited by Julie Davis et al. (Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), pp. 17-18.

Conference Proceedings

“Sympathy for an Invert: The Translation and Reception of Mishima Yukio’s Kamen no kokuhaku (Confessions of a Mask) in English,” Proceedings of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies, Volume 21 (December 2022) pp. 170-185.

Reviews

Review: Kerim Yasar, “Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945,” Mechademia: Second Arc, November 24, 2021.