ling anth; asst prof in Japanese @ASU; interests: ordinary life, ecological disaster, youth politics in Japan/Korea. How do we endure in a time of disaster?
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Joined October 2018
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Really looking forward to chatting about my research at the University of Victoria Wellington!
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Give it up for ordinary life! (which is to say, my article on how ordinariness is a cultural logic that structures (re)-interpretations of the good life among younger Japanese adults just came out)
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I love reading Harry Potter in Japanese--it's a re-encounter with a story I know so well as though for the first time.
Rereading Soseki in a completely new light thanks to Michael Bourdagh's lovely book; kind of recalls the debate over ownership among the Franciscans in The Name of the Rose. A reminder that we can rethink our social world.
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Do you ever dream in a language you don't actually speak? Like many linguistics, over the years I've studied various languages, some I can still sort of use in simple ways, others I no longer have any command or comprehension of. But in dreams, I'm still fluent in all of them. 1/
I love my field, but if I had read this book as an undergrad, I might have stayed in English Lit... it's an amazing, relevant book for ling anth folks and lit folks alike... press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
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