ONLINE ESSAYS
A Monstrous Little Mermaid Story
Cosmic Double, January 8, 2023
The Role of Dōjinshi in Comic Fanzine Discourse
Women Write About Comics, October 17, 2022
The End of the Line for the Shinra Corporation: Avalanche and Japanese Environmental Activism in Final Fantasy VII
Return to the Planet, January 31, 2022
Cosmic Horror and the Ruins of Capitalism in Night in the Woods
Entropy, May 18, 2021
Outsider Stories in Contemporary Japanese Fiction
Global Literature in Libraries Initiative, May 2, 2018
Why Ganondorf Was Wrong in The Wind Waker
FemHype, February 18, 2017
Magic and Gender in Final Fantasy VI
Kill Screen, August 16, 2016
Japanese Environmentalism, Shinto, & The Legend of Zelda
FemHype, May 10, 2016
Yoshi’s Woolly World & Mellow Mode: Validating All Skill Levels
FemHype, May 3, 2016
Innocence and Sexual Maturity in His Dark Materials
Lady Geek Girl and Friends, October 18, 2014
Attack of the Purse Snatchers: Gender and Bag Policies in U.S. Comic Book Stores
Geek Feminism, July 3, 2014
JOURNAL ARTICLES
I Coveted That Wind: Ganondorf, Buddhism, and Hyrule’s Apocalyptic Cycle
Games and Culture 16, No. 1 (January 2021): 3-21
https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412019865847
The Gentle Inclusivity of Kawakami Hiromi’s “Summer Break”
Proceedings of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies 21 (2020): 211-215
The Precarity of the Housewife in Kirino Natsuo’s ‘Rusted Hearts’
Japanese Language and Literature 52, No. 1 (April 2018): 201-240
A Legend of Regret: Fallen Kingdoms and Postcolonial Ghosts in Twilight Princess
Proceedings of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies 18 (2017): 47-59
Queering the Media Mix: The Female Gaze in Japanese Fan Comics
Transformative Works and Cultures 20 (Fall 2015)
https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0628
Short Skirts and Superpowers: The Evolution of the Beautiful Fighting Girl
U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal 47 (Winter 2014): 45-72
Mythical Landscapes and Imaginary Creatures: Pokémon and Japanese Regionalism
Proceedings of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies 14 (2013): 261-271
BOOK CHAPTERS
Sympathy for the Villain: A Queer Memoir of Online Video Game Fandom
Queer Life, Queer Love: An Anthology, edited by Matt Bates, Golnoush Nour, and Sarah & Kate Beal
Muswell Press, 2021, pp.69-75
Between Fans: History and National Identity in Online Debates on Axis Powers Hetalia
The Korean Wave from a Private Commodity to a Public Good, edited by Yeonhee Yoon and Kiwoong Yang
Korea University Press, 2020, pp.145-154
Illusion, Reality, and Fearsome Femininity in Takashi Miike’s Audition
Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia, edited by Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland, and Robert Shail
Emerald Publishing, 2019, pp.109-120
The Legends of Zelda: Fan Challenges to Dominant Video Game Narratives
Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice, edited by Kishonna L. Gray and David J. Leonard
University of Washington Press, 2018, pp.213-228
The Cute Shall Inherit the Earth: Postapocalyptic Posthumanity in Tokyo Jungle
Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, edited by Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade
Routledge, 2018, pp.81-90
Dangerous Women and Dangerous Stories: Gendered Narration in Kirino Natsuo’s Grotesque and Real World
Rethinking Modern Japanese Feminisms, edited by Julia C. Bullock, Ayako Kano, and James Welker
University of Hawai’i Press, 2018, pp.170-184
Bowser Koopa
The 100 Greatest Video Game Characters, edited by Jaime Banks, Robert Mejia, and Aubrie Adams
Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, pp.26-28
ACADEMIC BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon’s edited volume Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG
Asian Studies Review (October 2022)
Review of Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase’s Age of Shōjo: The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls’ Magazine Fiction
Pacific Affairs (December 2021)
Review of Yoshiko Okuyama’s Reframing Disability in Manga
Pacific Affairs 94, No. 2 (June 2021)
Review of Rachael Hutchinson’s Japanese Culture Through Videogames
Pacific Affairs 93, No. 2 (June 2020)
Review of Michal Daliot-Bul and Nissim Otmazgin’s The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for Global Creative Industries
Pacific Affairs 92, No. 3 (September 2019)
Review of Rebecca Suter’s Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction
Reading Religion, A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (October 2018)
Review of Casey Brienza’s Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics
Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures 27 (2018)
Review of Tamae K. Prindle’s Women in Japanese Cinema: Alternative Perspectives
Pacific Affairs 91, No. 1 (March 2018)
Review of Sandra Annett’s Anime Fan Communities
Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures 25 (2017)
Review of the Boss Fight Books Series
Asiascape: Digital Asia 3 (2016)
Review of Ian Bogost’s How to Do Things With Videogames
Asiascape: Digital Asia 2 (2015)
Review of Saitō Tamaki’s Beautiful Fighting Girl, trans. J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies 7, No. 2 (2013)
ONLINE REVIEWS
Space Trash Stages a Lunarpunk Rebellion
Women Write About Comics, February 14, 2023
You Died Anthology Explores a Gentle Afterlife
Women Write About Comics, November 30, 2022
Fruiting Bodies Digs Deep into Botanical Horror
Women Write About Comics, October 14, 2022
Himawari House Finds a Home in Cross-Cultural Friendship
Women Write About Comics, September 12, 2022
The Greatest Thing Is a Love Letter to Gay Teen and Queer Zines
Women Write About Comics, July 20, 2022
Pixels of You Snaps an AI Romance in High Contrast
Women Write About Comics, March 30, 2022
Comrade Himbo Embraces the Softer Side of Anti-Capitalist Masculinity
Women Write About Comics, March 17, 2022
When I Was Me: Moments of Gender Euphoria Captures Colorful Snapshots of Queer Joy
Women Write About Comics, February 3, 2022
Closing the Gaps in Queer Storytelling in Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
Women Write About Comics, November 30, 2021
Gazing into the Shadows from The Crossroads at Midnight
Women Write About Comics, October 21, 2021
A Movie Theater Meets Reality in Breakwater
Women Write About Comics, September 16, 2021
Feminist Halloween 2017: Review of Nico’s Fortune
The Lobster Dance, October 18, 2017
Review of Tiffany Hong’s Dissertation, Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
Dissertation Reviews, April 27, 2016
Review of Laura Knetzger’s Don’t Go in the Old Greene House
The Lobster Dance, October 28, 2015
The Strange Horizons Book Club: Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights
Strange Horizons, October 26, 2015
TRANSLATIONS
A World Where Horses Sell Tickets
Translation of Murakami Haruki’s Uma ga kippu o utteiru sekai
Doublespeak 3 (2013)
The God of Bears
Translation of Kawakami Hiromi’s Kamisama
Inventory 2 (2011)
Digital Fantasy Diary 