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et cetera
awards & fellowships
2024
Japanese Literature Publishing Project (JLPP) 8th International Translation Competition
2nd prize
2019
Writers in Kyoto Fourth Annual Writing Competition
1st prize
2016-17
Nippon Foundation Fellow
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama
2016
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellow
“Tokyo: High City, Low City” four-week residential seminar
2014-16
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow
Stanford University (three-time recipient)
2014
Critical Language Scholarship in Japanese
Eight-week intensive residential program in Himeji, Japan (sponsored by the US Department of State)
education
2017
Stanford University
MA in East Asian Studies (concentration in Japanese literature, culture, and religion)
2014
San Francisco State University
MA in Philosophy
2011
Towson University
BS in Philosophy
1989
University of Southern Mississippi
BS in English literature
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