Research Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

• English

“Plants in the Shade: Cryptogams as Queer Metaphor in Modern Japanese Discourse.” Japan Review, Vol. 42 (2026)

“’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), 1-24.

• Japanese

「三島由紀夫の初期同性愛小説と越境的な友情―『仮面の告白』『禁色』英訳史再考―」 [Mishima Yukio’s Early Gay Novels and Transnational Friendships: Reconsidering the English Translations of Confessions of a Mask and Forbidden Colors]. 三島由紀夫研究 26 [Mishima Yukio Studies Vol. 26], 2026.

Book Chapters

“‘My Bosom Friend Diana’: 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), 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), 268–274.

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

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), 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.

Curatorial Work

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

“Uta no Shiori Teikoku Ryūkō Kashū,” 歌のしおり帝国流行歌集 (Collection of songs popular in the Empire, 1944) Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books, Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, March 2020.

“Kawamura Bunpō Sansui Gafu 河村文鳳文鳳山水画譜” (Bunpō’s album of landscape paintings), Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books, Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, March 2020.