C. V.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. , East Asian Languages and Literatures (expected 2011)
University Of Oregon
Proposed Dissertation: “Sea Change: Japan’s New Wave of Female Film Directors”
Committee Members: Prof. Steven Brown, Prof. Daisuke Miyao, Prof. Kathleen Karlyn, Prof. Kaori Idemaru, Prof. Michael Aronson

Monbukagakusho Research Student Scholar (2010-2011)
Tsukuba University, Tsukuba City, Japan
Dissertation Research and Writing as a Research Student (研究生)

Professional Advanced Japanese Language Training (2007-2008)
Inter-University Center, Yokohama, Japan
Graduation Project: “Girl’s Style: The F1 Demographic and Movie Marketing”

M.A., East Asian Languages and Literatures (2006)
University Of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Comprehensive Exam, Written and Oral: Japanese Cinema, Visual Media Studies, and Critical Theory

B.A., Asian Studies & Biology majors, Japanese minor (1998-2002)
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
BA Capstone Projects:“Shangri-La: Tibetan Civilization and Western Imagination” (Asian Studies) & “The Evolution of Eusociality in the Hymenoptera” (Biology)

Study Abroad: Japanese Language and Culture Studies (2001-2002)
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

Monbukagakusho Research Student Scholarship 2010-2012
Japanese Ministry of Education
Tsukuba University

Center for Pacific and Asian Studies Small Professional Grant 2009
University of Oregon

Nomination for the Darrel and Davis Stein Graduate Teaching Award 2009
University of Oregon

East Asian Languages and Literatures Dept. Travel Award 2009
University of Oregon

Japan America Friendship Fund Award 2009-2010
East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon

Graduate Teaching Fellowship: History of the Motion Picture 1 & 2 2009-2010
English, Film Studies, University of Oregon

Graduate Teaching Fellowship: Beginning Japanese Language 2009
East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon

Graduate Teaching Fellowship: Japanese Film; Classical Japanese Lit. 2008-2009
East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon

U.S. Department of Education Tuition Scholarship 2007-2008
Inter-University Center, Yokohama, Japan

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Award (Japanese) 2007-2008
University of Oregon

Bruce M. Abrams Graduate Award for best paper in LGBTQ Studies 2007
Women’s and Gender Studies Program, University of Oregon

Graduate Teaching Fellowship: Japanese Film 2007
East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon

Alan Wolfe Memorial Scholarship 2007
University of Oregon

East Asian Languages and Literatures Dept. Travel Award 2007
University of Oregon

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Award (Japanese) 2006-2007
University of Oregon

Center for Pacific and Asian Studies Small Professional Grant 2006-2007
University of Oregon

Graduate Teaching Fellowship: Literature and Film 2006
East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon

Graduate Teaching Fellowship: Beginning Japanese Language 2005
East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon

Alan Wolfe Memorial Scholarship 2005-2006
University of Oregon

Beale Scholarship 2004-2005
Comparative Literature, University of Oregon

Graduate Research Fellowship 2004-2005
Comparative Literature, University of Oregon

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Japanese cinema, contemporary cinema, transnational cinema; animation (anime), comics (manga), new media, fashion; distribution, exhibition, production, marketing, film festivals, and spectatorship studies; female directors, female film stars, female spectators, gendered image production and reception, women in industry; film theory, visual and media theory, genre theory, feminist theory, queer theory; gender, sexuality, nation, and the body.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

“Japanese Cinema and the Classroom.” Jump Cut. No. 52, summer 2010.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Selected Essays and Film Reviews in The World Directory of Cinema: Japan, 2nd Edition. Edited by John Berra. Intellect Ltd. Forthcoming, March 2011.

CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED

“Female Filmmakers in Asia.” Panel Chair and Organizer. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii. March 31–April 3, 2011.

“Women in Industry: New Citizenship in Mainstream Media.” Panel Chair and Organizer. Society for Cinema and Media Studies National Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana. March 10-13, 2011.

CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

“Changing Spaces: The cinematic styles of Ogigami Naoko and Nishikawa Miwa and Japanese film reception.” To be presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, on the panel “Female Filmmakers in Asia.” Honolulu, Hawaii. March 31-April 03, 2011

“What is Japanese Film These Days, Anyway? Reception and Critique of Ogigami Naoko and Nishikawa Miwa.” To be presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies National Conference, on the panel “Women in Industry: New Citizenship in Mainstream Media.” New Orleans, Louisiana. March 10-13, 2011.

“Girl’s Style Cinema: Selling Independent Female Filmmakers in Japan.” Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, on the panel “Exhibition, Distribution, Marketing.” Hollywood, California. March 17, 2010.

“On the Origins of Manga.” Invited lecture with honorarium. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. K-12 Museum Outreach Program in association with the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. October 15, 2009.

“Girl’s Style Cinema: Selling Independent Female Filmmakers in Japan.” To have been presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. Tokyo, Japan. May, 2009. Conference canceled due to H1N1 flu pandemic.

“Made Marion: New Hollywood Cinema and the Action Heroine.” Invited talk for the Dept. of English’s Film Studies Sector’s film and lecture series “Steven Spielberg Directs.” University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. February 5, 2009.

“In Favor of a More Knowable Uncanny: What Happens When We Watch Ji-Woon Kim’s A Tale of Two Sisters.“ Invited talk for the Dept. of Comparative Literature’s film and lecture series “UNDEAD.” University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. January 28, 2009.

“ガールズ•スタイル:F1層と映画マーケティング (Girl’s Style: The F1-sou and Movie Marketing).” Presented in Japanese at the Inter-University Center year-end conference. Minato-Mirai Hall, Yokohama, Japan, June 04, 2008.

“Just Between Girls: A Look at ‘Pure’ Love in Nakahara Shun’s Sakura no sono.” Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, on the panel “Queerness and Independent Cinema.” Chicago, Illinois, March 11, 2007.

“The Kinema Junpo Award and Japanese Independent Cinema.” Presented at the Film Theory and Japanese Cinema Graduate Student Conference Workshop. Eugene, Oregon, November 28, 2006.

“Here’s Looking at You, Kid: Teenage Alienation Through The Gaze in Iwai Shunji’s All About Lily Chou Chou.” Presented at the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast annual conference, on the panel “Mediated Maturity: Images of Youth in Japanese Literature and Visual Culture.” Pullman, Washington, June 18, 2006.

COURSES TAUGHT AS PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR
Reading Manga 2008
University of Oregon

COURSES TAUGHT AS A GRADUATE TEACHING FELLOW
History of the Motion Picture II 2010
University of Oregon
Professor: Michael Aronson

History of the Motion Picture I 2009
University of Oregon
Professor: Michael Aronson

Beginning Japanese III 2009
University of Oregon
Instructors: Rika Ikei and Sae Kawase

Introduction to Classical Japanese Literature 2009
University of Oregon
Professor: Stephen Kohl

Introduction to Japanese Cinema 2008
University of Oregon
Professor: Daisuke Miyao

Introduction to Japanese Cinema 2007
University of Oregon
Professor: Daisuke Miyao

Introduction to Japanese Cinema 2006
University of Oregon
Professor: Daisuke Miyao

Introduction to Japanese Literature (Pre-modern to Modern) 2006
University of Oregon
Professor: Alisa Freedman

Beginning Japanese I 2005
University of Oregon
Instructors: Rika Ikei and Nancy Iwakawa