My research interests are broadly in the early modern and modern cultural history of Japan in its regional, transnational and global contexts. I am particularly fascinated by the changing patterns of knowledge exchange and circulation and the history of language and translation. Currently I am working on a book project called “Beyond Edo. Transnational narratives of the Early Modern in 20th-century Japan.” The project approaches stories about the early modern period in Japan from the vantage point of transnational and global history and is comprised of several case studies that together showcase the diverse forms of the Japanese engagement with the past.
02 Short Biography2021- Associate Professor, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
2020 Project Assistant Professor, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
2018–20 British Academy Newton International Fellow, University College London
2016-18 Academic Coordinator, Graduate School Global Intellectual History, Freie Universität Berlin
2016 Graduation from Freie Universität Berlin, Dr. phil. in Japanese Studies and History
2008 Graduation from Bonn University, MA in Japanese Studies, Linguistics and Political Science
'Terms of Government: Early Modern Japanese Concepts of Rulership and Political Geography in Translation', Journal of the History of Ideas 82,3 (2021), 521-537.
'A Rankean Moment in Japan: The persona of the historian and the globalization of the discipline, c. 1900', Modern Intellectual History (2020).
'Transcultural Philology in 19th-century Japan: the case of Shigeno Yasutsugu (1827-1910), Philological Encounters 3 (2018), 3-33.
China übersetzen: Globalisierung und chinesisches Wissen in Japan im 19. Jahrhundert [Translating China: Chinese knowledge and globalization in nineteenth-century Japan], (Campus: Frankfurt am Main, 2017).
'Japanisch – Kundoku – Chinesisch. Zur Geschichte von Sprache und Übersetzung in Japan' [Japanese - Kundoku - Chinese. On the history of language and translation in Japan], Geschichte und Gesellschaft 38 (2012), 217-242.
