Education:
BA in English and American Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University
M.A. in East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University
PhD in East Asian Languages and Literature, The Ohio State University

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Assistant Professor in Japanese, Hope College

Interests:
Japanese Literature and performance, comperative performance studies, and Japanese language pedagogy

• First-year through fourth-year Japanese
• JAPN/Comp. Literature 276 Premodern Japanese Literature and Performance
• JAPN/Comp. Literature 271 Transitional Japanese Literature into the Twentieth Centur
• JAPN/Comp. Literature 260 Japanese Theatre and its Contemporary Context (Not offered 2006-2007; to be offered 2007-2008)*

Selected Publications:

“Kyôgen in the post-war era.” Adapted translation of Kobayashi Seki’s “Kyôgen” in Nihon koten geinô to gendai: nô kyôgen (Japanese traditional performing arts and today: nô and kyôgen), 129-269 (Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1996). Asian Theatre Journal 23 (2007).

「梅若六郎家蔵『門入姓名年月扣』翻刻および人名解説（一）、（二）、（三）」『武蔵野大学・能楽資料センター紀要』初代梅若実資料研究会の一員として。“An Annotated Directory of the First Umewaka Minoru’s List of Amateur Disciples, 1-3” (Co-authored by the Umewaka Minoru Study Group).  Journal of the Noh Research Archives 15- 17 (2004-2006).

“Japanese Traditional and Modern Theater during the Time of Modernization: Chinese Patterns of Reception.”  European Foundation for Chinese Music Research 16/17 (2005): 192-203.

「東アジアの中の能楽：近代化の中の政治、歴史、文化的背景からの一考
察」『＜翻訳＞の圏域—文化・植民地・アイデンティティ—』 筑波大学文化批評研究会編。“Nô within East Asia During the Time of Modernization:  A Perspective Considering Political, Historical, and Cultural Contexts.”  In Realms of Translation: Culture, Colonies, and Identity.  Ibaragi, Japan: Tsukuba University Research Group on Cultural Criticism (2004).

“Nô Performances in Gaichi.” Asian Theatre Journal 18.2 (2001): 257-269.

“Western Audiences and the Emergent Reorientation of Meiji Nô.”  In Stanca Scholz-Cionca and Samuel L. Leiter, eds., Japanese Theatre and the International Stage. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill (2000).