I received my Ph.D. in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. My doctoral dissertation, guided by Professor Elizabeth Grosz, was about corpo-materialist ethics of sound and sensation in Ainu music activism. My book, Vibration of Others: Resonation and Corporeal Ethics of Transnational Indigenous Soundscapes (Wesleyan University Press, 2023) uses New Materialism and sound studies to understand how Ainu artists and activists curate transnational Indigenous soundscapes and address racism and environmental crises, both of which are results of imperial operations by the nation-states. My articles on sexuality, ethnicity, and immigration in Japan have been published in several feminist journals, such as Feminist Formations and Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.

Publications

Vibration of Others: Resonation and Corporeal Ethics of Transnational Indigenous Soundscapes (Forthcoming, Wesleyan University Press, 2023)

Selected Articles

“Mimesis, Contention, and Corporeality of Otherness: Reading the Haircuts of Undocumented Immigrants’ Daughters in Japan.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Volume 39, Issue 3. December 2018. 183-207.

“Lacerated Girls’ Uniforms and What the Cuts May Engender.” Feminist Formations. Volume 29, Issue 3. December 2017. 25-48.

Interview. “‘Minari’ Earns Oscar Noms, Marks Evolution of Asian-American Storytelling.” Davidson College News, 03/15/2021. https://www.davidson.edu/news/2021/03/15/minari-earns-oscar-noms-marks-evolution-asian-american-storytelling