Education

Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University, May 2016.

Field of study: Japanese literature; Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

M.A. and M.Phil., East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University, May 2013.

B.A., Japanese Language and Literature, Wellesley College, 2006.

Work Experience

2020—present: Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, University of Hong Kong

2018-2020: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University

2017-2018: Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, Oberlin College

2016-2017: Visiting Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, Macalester College

Professional Service

2022-2025: Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Member

2018-2020: Society for Queer Asian Studies (SQAS), Co-Chair

Manuscript referee: Journal of Japanese Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal

Invited Talks (selected)

2024

“East Asian Feminisms and Their Affective Worlds: Anger, Humor, and Iyashi Representation.” National Taiwan University. Taipei, Taiwan. November 22, 2024.

“Politics of Encounter: From Japanese Literary Studies to the Sinophone.” Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. April 18, 2024.

2022

“Kawakami Hiromi and the Queering of Distant Intimacies: Reading Japanese Literature from Hong Kong and Taiwan.” Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., November 3, 2022.

“The Memory Police and the Queer Feminist Writer: Theory, Pedagogy, and Becoming in Hong Kong.” University College London. London, UK, October 12, 2022.

“Ogawa Yōko and the Queer Feminist Writer in Times of Darkness: Theory, Pedagogy, and Becoming in Hong Kong” (小川洋子和黑暗之中的酷兒女性主義書寫：身處香港的理論、教學及生成). Online public lecture (Mandarin). National Taiwan University. Taipei, Taiwan, June 13, 2022.

2021

“Minor Intimacies of Japanese Literature: Calling Out into the World in Times of Trauma.” Online public lecture. University of California, San Diego, U.S., May 28, 2021.

2020

“Building a Queer Feminist Life: Research and Community across Borders.” Online public lecture (English with Japanese translation). Waseda University. Tokyo, Japan, June 19, 2020.

2018

“‘Lesbian’ Representation in Japanese Media.” Kanagawa University. Yokohama, Japan, October 30, 2018.

“Gender, Genre, and the Everyday: Analyzing Queer ‘Lesbian’ Potentialities Across Japanese Media.” Princeton University. Princeton, N.J., U.S., April 9, 2018.

Conference Activities (selected)

2025

Round Table Organizer/Chair, “‘Asian American Woman’ and ‘Woman of Color’: Unpacking Identity & Violence through Global Asias.” Sponsored by Verge. Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference. Boston, April 17-19, 2025.

Workshop Organizer, “Feminisms III: Queer and Feminist Care: ‘Safe Spaces’ and Community in Times of Transnational Violence.” Sponsored by Asian American Feminisms Section. Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference. Boston, April 17-19, 2025.

2023

Panel Organizer/Chair, “Transnational Feminisms, Translation, and Women’s Voices in Japanese Literature.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Boston, March 16-19, 2023.

2022

Panel Organizer/Chair, “Vanishing and Visible Women in Japanese Literary and Media Discourses.” Cultural Typhoon. Tokyo, Japan, September 16-18, 2022.

Seminar Co-Organizer, “Transnationalizing Queer Theory across Asia.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Virtual/Taipei, June 15-18, 2022.

Invited Presenter, “Queer Feminist Theory in Asia: Reading and Resistance across (Post)colonial Spaces.” The 6th Yonsei Korean Studies Forum: Archiving Korean Studies: The Position of Translators, Queers, and Archivists. Yonsei University. Online, January 8, 2022.

2019

Round Table Organizer/Chair, “Queer Asia 2: Texts, Readings, Flows.” Round table series on field of Queer Asian Studies. AAS-in-Asia Conference. Bangkok, July 1-4, 2019.

Invited Presenter, “Waseda Bungaku’s ‘Women’s Issue’: Transnational Feminist Encounters in the Twenty-First Century.” Invited presentation. The Woman in the Story: Female Protagonists in Japanese Narratives (Yanai Initiative Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles). Los Angeles, March 13-15, 2019.

2018

Panel Organizer/Chair, “Hierarchies and Rainbows in Japan and Beyond: Problematizing Western Rubrics of Homoeroticism and Homosociality.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. D.C., March 22-25, 2018.

2017

Panel Organizer/Chair, “Reorienting Feminisms in Japanese Studies.” AAS-in-Asia Conference. Seoul, June 24-27, 2017.