Education

• PhD, Premodern Japanese Literature, Columbia University, 2005
• Foreign Research Scholar,  Waseda University, 2002-3
• MA, Classical Japanese Literature, Hokkaidō University, 1998
• BA (Hons), Japanese, SOAS, University of London, 1992

Research

Early and classical Japanese poetry; mythical and historical writing in early Japan; narrative theory and representations of the first person in Japanese literature; representations of empire; seventeenth and eighteenth century kokugaku (“national learning”) and its relationship to modern and contemporary philology and theory.

Selected Publications

• Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan (Brill, 2014)
  http://www.brill.com/products/book/manyoshu-and-imperial-imagination-early-japan
• “The Jinshin Rebellion and the Politics of Historical Narrative in Early Japan,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 133.2 (Apr-Jun 2013)
• “Man’yō daishōki no bunkengaku no rekishiteki igi o megutte,” Anahorish kokubungaku No. 1, (Nov. 2012), 66-72.
• “The Man’yōshū as a Pre-classic,” and “Koten izen to shite no Man’yōshū,” in Ekkyō suru Nihon bungaku kenkyū, edited by Haruo Shirane (Benseisha, 2009), 20-23, and 22-25.
• Poesía Clásica Japonesa: Kokinwakashū (Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2005). (Translation into Spanish of one hundred poems from the Kokinshū with the kana preface, and an introduction)
  http://www.trotta.es/pagina.php?cs_id_pagina=13&cs_id_contenido=1556
• “Ōmikōtoka ni okeru sakuchū shutai no nimensei” (The Two Aspects of the Narrating Subject in Hitomaro’s Poem on the Ruined Ōmi Capital). Jōdai bungaku (Nov. 2003), 27-41.
• “‘Kōshō kara kisai e’—sōsakushugi to kyōjushugi” (‘From Orality to Writing’: Composition and Reception). Kokugo kokubun kenkyū (Jan. 2000), 15-26.