BOOKS
Kamigata Rakugo: Comic Storytelling in Japan’s Cultural Heartland (under final review).
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
Invited to contribute to a peer-reviewed three-volume anthology project in progress, tentatively titled Early Modern Japanese Comic Books (An Anthology of Kusazōshi), edited by Adam L. Kern and Glynne Walley.
“Rakugo’s Negotiation of Militarism during the World War II Years” in Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War. Edited by W. Puck Brecher and Michael Myers (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019).
“Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)” in Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History. Edited by Howard Chiang (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019).
“Spotlight – Popular Arts: Rakugo and Misemono” in A History of Japanese Theatre. Edited by Jonah Salz (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
“Laughter After Wars: Rakugo Under the American Occupation” in Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theatre in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952. Edited by Samuel L. Leiter (Lexington Books, 2009).
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Everybody’s Comfier with a Good Pillow: The Makura of Rakugo.” Journal of East Asian Pragmatics, special issue on “Humour in East Asian Cultures: Context and Interpretation,” edited by Jessica Milner Davis and Daniel Kadar (in progress).
“Using Yoshikono and War to Save Rakugo in Osaka.” Japan Forum, vol. 30, no. 3: 394-420 (2018).
“Jippensha Ikku, Hizakurige, and Comic Storytelling.“ Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 20: 46-75 (2012).
“Travel and Tabibanashi in the Early Modern Period: Forming Japanese Geographic Identity.“ Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 25, no. 1: 101-121 (spring 2008).
REVIEWS
Review of Ashton Michael Lazarus’ “Performing Culture: Representations of Commoner Performance in Early Medieval Japan.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University 2014. 317 pp. Dissertation Reviews (March 2016).
Review of Ian McArthur’s Henry Black: On Stage in Meiji Japan. Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 2013. 274 pp. Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 32, no. 2: 675-680 (fall 2015).
Review of Melek Ortabasi’s The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. 329 pp. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 78, no. 3: 662-664 (October 2015).
Review of Damian Flanagan’s Yukio Mishima. London: Reaktion Books, 2014. 256 pp. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,vol. 78, no. 2: 426-427 (June 2015).
Review of Keller Kimbrough and Satoko Shimazaki’s (eds.) Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan. Boulder, Colorado: Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, 2011. 247 pp. Japanese Language and Literature, vol. 46, no. 1: 67-73 (spring 2012).
Review of Lorie Brau’s Rakugo: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. 257 pp. Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 26, no. 1: 191-194 (spring 2009).
OTHER SCHOLARSHIP
早稲田大学演劇博物館・2016年度秋季企画展 図録『落語とメディア』内「落語は海外にどう見せるべきか」2016年10月 (“Rakugo wa kaigai ni dō miseru beki ka” [How Should Rakugo Be Presented Overseas?]. Rakugo to media (Waseda University Theatre Museum Exhibition Catalogue, autumn 2016).
English supertitles for Nagashima Hiroaki,”Misreading Famous Verses from the Edo Period” (江戸時代の名句の誤読 Edo jidai no meiku no godoku), a lecture given at the East Asian Seminar Series, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, 25 January 2016. Full text (5412 words, reproduction with permission only).
『演劇博物館 enpaku book』第111巻 (2015年3月) 内「演博での一年を振り返って」（訪問研究員エッセイ）(“Enpaku de no ichinen o furikaette” [Looking Back on a Year at the Theatre Museum]. Engeki hakubutsukan: enpaku book, vol. 111 [March 2015]).
Research article “Long Before Asics and Mizuno: Hikyaku, Japan’s First Running Elite” submitted to Running Times. Acknowledged in “Running Messengers: The Great Tradition” by Roger Robinson, December 2010, issue 382, p. 78. Full text (2130 words, reproduction with permission only).
Co-curator for “Poets and Printmakers: Literary Themes in Japanese Prints” at the Robert F. Lange Foundation Gallery, Honolulu Academy of Art. January 28 – March 28, 2010. Curated section featuring Jippensha Ikku’s Tōkaidōchū hizakurige in ukiyo-e.
