Research fields: World Literature; Translation Studies; Modern Japanese Literature and Culture in Relation to World Literature and Latin American Literature. Global English Literature; Postcolonialism and World Literature.

Education: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Harvard University (2023); M.A. in Comparative Literature, Harvard University (2015); Ph.D. in Contemporary Literary Studies, University of Tokyo (2020); M.A., University of Tokyo (2012).

Books: Distant Shores: Japanese Refractions of World and Latin American Literature in the 20th Century. a monograph on the translations of classical Japanese literature by 20 th – century Latin American authors, developed from my Harvard dissertation

Selected publications:

“(In)comparable Poetries and Transpacific Networks of Translation: Matsuo Bashō, Octavio Paz, and the Creation of a Latin American Oku no Hosomichi,” Journal of World Literature (2019)

“Intercultural and Intersemiotic Translation as Autobiography in Adriana Lisboa’s Rakushisa,” Dedalus (2022)

“That Admirable Lack of Orientalism: Jorge Luis Borges’s Translations into Japanese as Self-Orientalizing Acts in the Song Scroll of the Mansion of Fictions 傳奇亭吟草,” Beoiberística (2024)

“Where is World Literature? 世界文学とは、何処か?” Waseda Literature and Journalism Association [早稲田文芸・ジャーナリズム学会], (2021)

“Carlos Fuentes in World Literature: The Translations of Carlos Fuentes into the Japanese Language,” book chapter in The Reptant Eagle (2015)

Awards, fellowships & grants: 
Suntory Research Fellowship, Suntory Foundation, 2019-2020.
Reischauer Institute Supplementary Japan Research Fellowship, 2019.
Kyoto Gakuen University Research Fellowship, 2018.
Korea Foundation Fellowship for Language Study, Yonsei University, 2016.
Confucius Institute China Studies Program Research Fellowship, Beijing Normal University, 2015.
Japanese Ministry of Education MEXT Scholarship, University of Tokyo 2010-2013.

Research Languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Korean, Classical Japanese, Classical Chinese.