Premodern Japanese culture via three fields: literature, art history and performance studies.
About
Current research interests:
What I care about most as a scholar is the praxis of learning and teaching to read well. In this vein, my research and teaching explore the relation between legibility and embodiment. The aesthetic and political tactics through which bodies negotiate constraint intrigue me, whether in calligraphic prefaces or on Noh stages. The fundamental question driving my research is "How should bodies be read?" While my attempts to address the aesthetic and political dimensions of this question carve a cursive path, all my scholarly work has explored relationships between embodiment and legibility to some degree: in late-Heian handscrolls, medieval dance-drama, postwar Japanese choreography, Afro-Asian sculpture, slide guitar, and The Tale of Genji.
