I am an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Temple University Japan – Kyoto. I research transnational/transcultural fandoms and transnational media co-production and distribution. My work has been published in East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Transformative Works and Cultures, Participations, Asian Cinema, and Mechademia: Second Arc. I have also contributed to Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (NYU Press, 2017), The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (Routledge, 2018), A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), and Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics (Iowa, 2021). I currently teach undergraduate courses on Japanese popular culture, culture, and history.

Outside of work, I like to check out tea shops in the Kansai region and try to keep from buying too much zakka. I do genealogy in my spare time and fangirl over Hannibal, Good Omens, What We Do in the Shadows, The Untamed, Check, Please!, and Our Flag Means Death. I was born in West Texas, grew up in Hong Kong, and met my (Californian) spouse in Tokyo.