Hello!
I’m a second-year PhD student in Japanese media and literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC) at Columbia University.
My current research seeks to understand how concepts of “indigeneity” functioned to define nation and self in Japan in discourses of the 1960s and 1970s. This work builds on my EALAC MA thesis, which situated Imamura Shōhei’s filmmaking practice in the 1960s within contemporary discussions about “autochthony (dochaku).”
I am also pursuing graduate certificates from Columbia’s Center for Comparative Media and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
For more detail, please see my departmental bio.
From 2019–20, I was an associate research scholar at Columbia University’s Tow Center, studying the flow of resources from tech companies and platforms to news organizations.
In a past life, as Slate’s assistant interactives editor, I conceived and programmed award-winning graphics and games, including some that have been exhibited at museums around the world. The coolest ones are here.
I’ve published essays on culture (usually humor) and politics (usually queer-related) in the Washington Post and Slate. Check those out here. I also write poems.