​I hold a PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University. My dissertation, titled "Sink or Swim in Liquid Modernity: The Chronotope of the Modern Woman in Early 1930s Hollywood", focused on modernity in Early 1930s woman's films. I am currently Assistant Professor of Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Tsukuba (Japan), where I teach in the College of Comparative Culture and in the PhD program in Literature and Linguistics. I am passionate about the intermingling of film theory and history, and I have yet to see an early 1930s film I did not like.

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University of Tsukuba
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
1-1-1 Tennodai
​A518
305-8777