After graduating from the Department of Japanese Studies with a BA (Hons) and a MA, I worked briefly as an interpreter before pursuing my PhD in East Asian Literature at Cornell University with an Overseas Research Scholarship from NUS. My dissertation, supervisd by Professor Karen Brazell (1938 - 2012), was on noh in the late Muromachi period. My book, Kanze Nobumitsu nad the Late Muromachi Noh Theater, published by Cornell East Asian Series, is based on this dissertation.
Over the years I have explored various areas of research, not due to lack of discipline (in both sense of the word), but also due to the attractive nature of these areas. I have spent time in University of California, Berkeley; Ritsumeikan University, Hosei University and Historiography Institute, University of Tokyo doing different projects. Presently, my main projects include translation and analysis of noh plays; contemporary comedy films and traditional performance in digital scholarship.
In terms of administrative responsibilities, I have been the Deputy Head and the Graduaet Coordinator of the department, and on faculty committees including the Faculty Curriculum Review Committee and the Graduate Studies Conference Committee.
I have taught various courses since joining the department. Following are courses that I have been teaching in the past three years:
Current PhD & MA students:
Past PhD & MA students: