Research areas	Cinema and Media Studies
Keywords	American Cinema, Radio History, Audiovisual Culture
Themes	My research focuses on American and Japanese media history, with particular interests in sound technology and performance in theatre, film, and radio. I’m also engaged in a study of the exhibition practice of non-film contents in Japanese movie theatres after the 2000s, by examining the cinema/theatre intermediality and spectatorship in relation to “liveness” in the age of digital cinema.
Major publications	Book Chapters: “Japanese Cinema and the Radio: Sound Space of Unseen Cinema” in The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan, Michael Raine and Johan Nordström ed., Amsterdam University Press, 2020. “Modernity in Film Exhibition: The Rise of Modern Movie Theaters in Tokyo, 1920s-1930s” in A Companion to Japanese Cinema, David Desser ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2022.
Professional societies/Research and synergic activities	Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Teaching Areas	Undergraduate courses Graduate courses (Master's program) Graduate courses (Doctor's program) Undergraduate courses open to all departments
Background	Education: BA, Waseda University, English Literature, 2007 MA, Waseda University, Theatre and Film Arts, 2009 PhD, Waseda University, Theatre and Film Arts, 2012 Work Experience: JSPS Research Fellow (GCOE), Waseda University, 2009-2012 Visiting Assistant in Research, Yale University, 2010-2011 Research Associate, Waseda University, 2012-2013 JSPS Research Fellow (PD), Meiji Gakuin University, 2013-2016 Assistant Professor, Rikkyo University, 2019-2020 Associate Professor, Kyoto University, 2020-present