About
My research centers on folk culture in early medieval Japan (11th – 13th centuries). Combing through a variety of histories, tales, poetry anthologies, diaries and belles-lettres, I write about what we can know about non-elites, how we can know it, and what it tells us about the shifting political and cultural currents of the time. I am especially interested in how performing arts such as dengaku (field music and dance), sangaku (acrobatics), and imayō (popular song) mediated inter-class contact and contributed to the nondiscursive character of medieval culture. Education
2014, PhD, Yale University, East Asian Languages and Literatures
2011-12, Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo, Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies
2006-07, Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies
2005, BA, Tufts University, Japanese Language and Literature
