Curriculum Vitae

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in English (DPhil), 2017.

University of Oxford• Oxford, England.

Thesis: ‘The Restoration of Creation in the early Anglo-Saxon Vitae of Cuthbert and Guthlac’.

Supervisor: Prof. Francis Leneghan. 

 

Master of Studies in English (MSt), 2011.

University of Oxford• Oxford, England.

Dissertation: ‘The Playful Construction of Space and Place in Middle English Narratives: The Locus Amoenus, The Forested Wilderness, and the Otherworld in Sir Orfeo’.

 

Master of Arts in Medieval British Studies (MA), 2007.

Cardiff University• Cardiff, Wales.

Dissertation: ‘Moses as Holy Warrior: The Characterization of Moses in the Old English Exodus’.

 

Bachelor of Arts in English (BA), 2005.

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa • Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

 

Employment History

2024–Present Associate Professor

2021–2024 Assistant Professor

Kyushu University, Faculty of Languages and Cultures

Courses Taught:

Production 1 and 2: Introductory composition course.

Academic English: Academic English course focused on contemporary issues.

Literature and the Environment.

English for Business Communication (graduate course).

2018–2021   Project Assistant Professor 

University of Tokyo, Department of English, Center for Global Communication Studies

Courses Taught:

PEAK: Literature and the Environment. 

ALESA: Active learning course in English for students of the humanities and social sciences. 

ALESS: Active learning writing course for first-year science students.

FLOW: English speaking course designed to increase students’ fluency in spoken academic English.

2020–2021   Lecturer

Keio University, Faculty of Letters

 Courses Taught:

英語Ⅲ・Ⅳ中級発展 Modern Medievalism: East and West

英語Ⅲ・Ⅳ上級 Literature and the Environment.

2019–2020     Lecturer

Rikkyo University, Department of English

Course Taught:

Graduate courses in Old English, Middle English, and Anglo-Latin literature. 

 

2015–2018       English Lecturer 

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Department of English.

Courses Taught:

English 330 Medieval British Literature: Islands and the Imagination

English 302 History of the English Language: Indo-European to Hawaiian Creole English 

English 270 Literature and the Environment

English 272 Modern Global Medievalism

English 200 English Composition II

English 100A Honours English Composition I

English 100 English Composition I

 

2014–2015       Tutor in English 

Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford. 

Tutorial Courses Taught: 

Course I FHS Paper 2: Middle English Literature

Prelims Paper 2: Old English Literature 

  

2014                 Tutor in English 

Queen’s College, University of Oxford. 

Tutorial Courses Taught:

Prelims Paper 2: Old English Literature 

 

2014                 Tutor in English 

Mansfield College, University of Oxford. 

Tutorial Courses Taught:

Course II FHS Paper 1: Old English Literature

 

2014                 Tutor in English 

Exeter College, University of Oxford. 

Tutorial Courses Taught:

C.S. Lewis and Oxford (Visiting Students Programme)

  

2013                 Tutor in English 

Worcester College, University of Oxford. 

Tutorial Courses Taught:

J.R.R. Tolkien and Theology (Visiting Students Programme)

 

2012                 Tutor in English 

Wadham College, University of Oxford. 

Tutorial Courses Taught: 

Comparative pre-Christian mythology, religion, and folklore in Europe and the British Isles (Visiting Students Program) 

 

2009–2010       English Lecturer

Chaminade University.

Courses Taught:

English 201 Types of Literature: From Shakespeare to the Pacific

English 101: Introduction to Expository Writing

English 100: Essentials of English Composition

 

2009–2010       English Lecturer

Leeward Community College.

Courses Taught:

English 100: Composition I

English 19: Introduction to Composition

 

Refereed Publications

‘Material Aurality: Sound Milieu(s) in the Guthlac Roll’, Religions (forthcoming, 2025).

‘Sonic Journeys on the Open Sea: Testing the Faithful in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature’, The Review of English Studies 75 (2024), 127–144.

‘The Sound-World of Early Medieval England: A Case Study of the Exeter Book Storm Riddle’, in Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature, ed. Francis Leneghan, Mark Atherton, and Kazutomo Karasawa (Brepols, 2022).

Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England (Boydell and Brewer, 2022). Essay collection, co-edited with Prof. Karen Jolly.

‘Biophonic Soundscapes in the Vitae of St Guthlac’, English Studies 102 (2021), 155–79.

‘St Cuthbert as Lamp: the Ideal Gregorian Monk-Pastor in Bede’s metrical Vita sancti Cuthberti’, Peritia 30 (2020), 53­–70.

‘Felix’s Construction of the English Fenlands: Literal Landscape, Authorizing Allusion, and Lexical Echo in his Vita Sancti Guthlaci’, in Guthlac: Crowland’s Saint, edited by Jane Roberts and Alan Thacker (Donnington: Paul Watkins Publishing, 2020), 55–71.

Restoring Creation: The Natural World in the Anglo-Saxon Saints’ Lives of Cuthbert and Guthlac (Boydell and Brewer, 2019). 

‘Intimacy, Interdependence, and Interiority in the Old English Prose Boethius’, Neophilologus 102 (2018), 525–42. 

 ‘A New Source for the Anonymous Vita S. Cuthberti’, Notes and Queries 62 (2015), 356–58.

 ‘Tolkien’s Technique of Translation in his Prose Beowulf: Literalism and Literariness’, Mallorn 55 (2014), 23–5.

 

 

Conference Presentations and Invited Seminars

‘The Future Past: JSMES and Medieval English Studies in the Coming Ages’ (承前啓後―日本におけるこれからの中世英語英文学研究を考える), Round Table, The 40th Congress of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, Fukui University, December 7–8, 2024.

‘Knowing Ocean(s:) Saturated Textualities along the North Sea’, International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, July 1–4, 2024.

‘The Deep: Grund as Seafloor in Old English Literature’, The 40th Conference for the West Branch of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, Hiroshima Shudo University, June 8, 2024.

‘Knowing Oceans: Early Medieval Seas’, International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England, online seminar, May 17, 2024. Invited Speaker.

‘Knowing Oceans: Tides, Shallows, and Literature’, The 39th Congress of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, Waseda University, December 2–3, 2023.

‘Knowing Ocean(s): Borders and Boundaries, from Surface to Seafloor’, International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, July 4–7, 2022.

‘Sounding the World: Biophony and Geophony in Old English and Old Norse literature’, The 94th English Literary Society of Japan General Meeting, Doshisha University, May 21–22, 2022.

‘Submerged: Thinking through the Sea in Early English Literature’, The 93rd English Literary Society of Japan General Meeting, Waseda University, May 22–23, 2021.

‘Material Aurality: Text, Image, and Stone in early Medieval England’, The 36th Congress of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, Online Conference, December 5–15, 2020.

‘The Earth Cries Out: Inanimate Aurality in Anglo-Saxon Literature’, The 35th Congress of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, Tokyo Future University, November 30–December 1, 2019.

‘Sonic Materialities: Aqueous Soundscapes in Anglo-Saxon Literature’, International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, July 1–4, 2019. 

‘Anglo-Saxon Soundscapes: The Song of the Sea’, The 34thCongress of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, Aichi University of Education, December 1–2, 2018.  

 ‘Soundscapes in the Vitae of St Guthlac’, International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, July 2–5, 2018. 

‘Relationship Over Dialectic: Interdependent Voices in the prose Old English Boethius’, PAMLA 115th Annual Conference, Chaminade University of Honolulu, November 10–12, 2017.

‘Eco-Criticism and the Natural World: Native Soundscapes in Felix’s Vita sancti Guthlaci’, Premodern Ecologies: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Interaction with the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, CMEMS Conference, University of Colorado Boulder, October 20–22, 2016. 

‘Cuthbert as Lamp: Bede’s Transformation of Cuthbert in his Metrical Vita sancti Cuthberti’, International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, July 6–9, 2015. 

‘The Vernacular Fenland: the Literal Landscape of the Anonymous Old English Prose Life of Saint Guthlac’, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 14–17, 2015.

‘The Literal Landscape: Felix’s use of authorizing allusion and lexical echo in his construction of the English Fenlands in his Vita Sancti Guthlac’, Guthlac of Crowland: Celebrating 1300 Years, Institute of English Studies and Institute of Historical Research, University of London, April 10–11, 2014. 

‘The Involution of Theodicy in the Anonymous Vita sancti Cuthberti: Obedience, Reorientation, and Pilgrimage’, Studientag zum Englischen Mittelalter (SEM XVI), LMU München, March 7–8, 2014.

‘The Righteousness of Pleasure: The Path to Pleasure in Creation in the Legends of Saint Guthlac’, International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, July 1–4, 2013.

‘A Chorus of Voices: Intimacy, Interdependence, and Interiority in the Voices of the Old English Boethius and Old English Soliloquies’, Studientag zum Enlischen Mittelalter (SEM) XV, University of Bern, March 7–9, 2013.

‘The Wondrous Gesceaftand the Inimical Facets of Creation: Narrative Theodicy Explored through the Natural World in the Old English and Anglo-Latin Guthlac Legends’, COLSONOEL, Cambridge Graduate Conference, May 18, 2012.

‘Re-Thinking the Tolkienian Canon: The Position of Smith of Wootton Majoras the Conclusion of the Canon’, The Famed and Forgotten, Oxford University Graduate Conference, June 10, 2011.

Research Grants

Knowing Oceans: The Early Medieval English North Sea. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C). Budget: ¥4,680,000 (~$31,387.49). Project Number: 24K03704. (2024– 2029).

Early Medieval Soundscapes. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, 2019–2021.

Budget: ¥2,080,000 (~ $19,907.74). Project Number: 19K13100. (2019–2022).

Awards

UH Mānoa English Department Travel Grant, 2016.

The Sherry L. Reames Graduate Student Travel Award for Hagiographical Studies, 2015.

Sloane-Robinson Scholarship, Lincoln College, 2011–2014.

Graduate Research Grant, Lincoln College, 2013, 2014. 

Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Cardiff University, 2006–2007.

Reviews and Editorial Work

Editor, The Transactions of the Asiatic Society, 2022–Present.

Review of Harriet Soper, The Life Course in Old English Poetry (Cambridge, 2023), in SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature 29, 227–30. 

Editorial Board, Japan Society for Medieval English Studies (日本中世英語英文学会), 2019–2022.

Review of Charles C. Rozier, Writing History in the Community of St Cuthbert, c.700-1130: From Bede to Symeon of Durham (Woodbridge, 2020), for The Medieval Review (2021/09/31).

Co-Editor for Pensado, University of Tokyo, 2018–2021.

Copy editor, “Conference Proceedings,” LLL Graduate Student Conference, UH Mānoa, 2016.

Online editor for The Dream of the Rood, Paper 2 Course pack, University of Oxford, 2012

Public Scholarship and Service 

Invited Speaker, Kyushu University U Connect, 2023: ‘Why should we care about space?’ '(‘どうして宇宙は大切なのか？’).

Founding Member, VA+M+P@IR*E (Visual Arts + Music + Poetry @ Itoshima Research), 2022–Present.

Founder and Director of Converging Epistemologies, 2018–2023.

Training 

Developing Learning and Teaching, D.L.T., University of Oxford, UK, 2013–2014.

Preparing for Learning and Teaching at Oxford, P.L.T.O., University of Oxford, UK, 2012.

Field Archaeology training in Mendes, Egypt, with the University of Pennsylvania, 2005.

Professional Membership

The Japan Society for Medieval English Studies (JSMES).

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). 

Modern Language Association (MLA).

Society for the Study of Medieval Language and Literature (SSML).

Hagiography Society.

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Society (PAMLA).

 

Languages

Research and teaching capacity: Latin, Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse.

Research capacity: Middle-Egyptian. 

Speaking: English, Japanese.