2023 - CURRENT Students enrolled in Modern Japanese Media—a course that explored various Japanese media adaptations of Sherlock Holmes— at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, wrote reviews for The Shoso-in Bulletin, a rare collection of international Sherlockian magazines published by The Men with the Twisted Konjo, published from 1991 to 2004. Yuichi Hirayama from Japan’s Sherlock Holmes Club and George Vanderburgh from Battered Silicon Dispatch Press generously provided our class with digital copies of volumes 1- 13 of The Shoso-in Bulletin. Here, you will find selected reviews of articles in the hope of disseminating knowledge and awareness of the influence of Sherlock Holmes in Japan and abroad.
2019-2021 I had the pleasure of reading tons of shojo manga in developing Dr. Ben Whaley’s website for his SSHRC-funded project. Go read about shojo representations of Jewish identity in manga and explore the chronology of Anne Frank manga, and more!
2021 In collaboration with Dr. Ryan Scheiding, I am undertaking the translation of Nagasaki Kitty 2.0! Support us on this passion project and click on the button below for videos and other interesting content!
2020 It was an honor to have served as the managing editor for The Polyglot’s Issues 6 and 7 curated by Naomi McIlwraith and Dorothy Thunder that celebrates the voices of Indigenous writers, poets and artists across Canada.
2017-2020 I was part of an amazing team that made an SSHRC-funded computer game called Nagasaki Kitty. The game can be played in both Japanese and English!
2017-2018 I had the honor of being the guest editor for the Special Issue on food, which features recipes in different languages that celebrate the multi-cultural food scene in Canada. for The Polyglot Magazine is a Canadian biannual online magazine devoted to publishing multilingual poetry and art.
2016 I was part of the curating team for a Comics Exhibition organized by Dr. Chris Reyns-Chikuma in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. I also had the pleasure of being part of a round table discussion about manga!