presentations

Below is a list of my past presentations about my research and professional work in Japanese studies, librarianship, and digital humanities. Click the titles for (mostly) full text in HTML format, and the "slides" link for presentation slides in PDF format. If you would like my footnotes with citations (not in the HTML here), feel free to contact me.

  • "Searching Japanese Catalogs (and getting a PDF!)" Workshop for patrons at the Penn Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Feb 2019). (slides)
  • "'I See DH Everywhere Now!': Teaching the Challenges and Possibilities of East Asian Digital Humanities." (slides) Invited lecture at University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania (Jan 2019).
  • "Teaching 'East Asian DH.'" Paper presented at the 2019 MLA Convention, Chicago, Illinois (Jan 2019).
  • "Constructing Our Canon(s): Reprinting & Digitizing Literary Heritage." Paper presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies, Berkeley, California (Sept 2018).
  • Discussant, "Literary anthologies and information management in imperial China." Presentation at the Association for Asian Studies 2018 Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. (Mar 2018)
  • "Language of empire in Taiyō magazine 1895-1925." (slides) Presentation at NCC Annual Meeting, Princeton, New Jersey (Dec 2017).
  • "Rethinking the oeuvre: Modern Japanese periodicals as corporate authors." Authorship roundtable at Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Oct 2017).
  • "Taming text and locating imperial language in Japan's Taiyō 太陽 magazine (a comedy of errors)." (slides) Presentation at KeystoneDH 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Jul 2017).
  • "Constructing an Imperial Lexiscape: Linguistic layering and new methods in text analysis." Paper co-presented at Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Jul 2015).
  • "Parsing exotic travel: Geoparsing and sentiment analysis in British women's travel narratives." Presentation at WORD LAB, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Mar 2015).
  • "WORD LAB: An experimental space for research collaboration in Penn Libraries." Presentation at the Council on East Asian Libraries annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois (Mar 2015).
  • "Inventing Saikaku: Collectors, provenance, and the social creation of an author." Paper presented at the Workshop in the History of Material Texts at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Jan 2015).
  • "Harvesting Japanese literature from Aozora Bunko." Presentation at WORD LAB, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Sept 2014).
  • "Digitized Texts and the Problems of Textual Analysis for Historical Japanese Books." Paper presented at Histories of the Japanese Book: Past Present Future, Santa Barbara, California (May 2013).
  • "The Corporate Anonymous: Media-Based Authorship, Social Networks, and Reader Reception in the Meiji Period." Paper presented at Histories of the Japanese Book: Past Present Future, Santa Barbara, California (May 2013).
  • "Memorial Archives and the Creation of the Author: The Case of Kitamura Tōkoku." Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies 2013 Annual Conference, San Diego, California (Mar 2013).
  • "Editing Identity: Social Memory, Archives, and Authorship in Japanese Anthologies." Paper presented at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Japan Forum lecture series, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Mar 2013).
  • "Collective Authorship and Reception: Rethinking the Meiji Literary World." Paper presented at the Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, New York (Feb 2012).
  • "Institutionalizing Saikaku: Social Provenance and Literary Legitimization." Paper presented at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Columbus, Ohio (Oct 2010).
  • "Editing Ichiyō: Defining Identity Through Literary Anthologies." Paper presented at Japan Studies Association of Canada 2007 International Conference, Toronto, Ontario (Aug 2007).
  • "Doing Your Duty: Constructing a Korean Colonial Subject." Paper presented at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Madison, Wisconsin (Oct 2006)