Biography
I am a PhD Student in the Media and Communication program. I study Japanese media and popular culture and am interested in media representations of embodied relationships with technology
(cyborgs, robots, androids, prosthetics, wearables, etc.) I use critical textual analysis to understand in how discourses and ideologies about bodies–in particular, normative ideas of what it means to have a "proper" or "normal” body–map onto scientific and technological discourses, and how these are represented in texts. I'm interested in the development of these representations and media forms over time. I’m also interested in transcultural, hybrid textual flows between the US and Japan. I’m also interested disability, and how prosthetic and adaptive technologies are represented in media and popular culture.
Education:
BA: History and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
MA: Japanese, University of Massachusetts-Amherst