University Lecturer, Leiden University

Edo-period culture, History of sexuality, Gender history, History of medicine and the body, Book history, History of time

English, Japanese

Leiden , Netherlands

PhD, Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2014

MA, Japanese Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, 2010

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Ghent University, 2017-2020
• Visiting Lecturer, Yale University, 2017
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo, 2016

• "Sex in Eighteenth-Century Edo," Cambridge World History of Sexualities, vol. 3: Sites of Knowledge and Practice, ed. Merry Wiesner Hanks and Mathew Kuefler (Cambridge University Press, 2024), 232-260.

• Diplomatic Devices: the Social Lives of Foreign Timepieces in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Japan," KronoScope 20/1 (2020): 64–101.

• "Nightless Cities: Timing the Pleasure Quarters in Early Modern Japan," KronoScope 17/1 (2017): 61-93.

• "Sexual Healing: Regulating Male Sexuality in Edo-period Books on 'Nurturing Life'," International Journal of Asian Studies 10/2 (2013): 143-170.

• Dutch Research Council (Project: "Blood, Tears and Samurai Love: A Digital Edition of a Tragic Tale from Eighteenth-Century Japan"), 2023-2024
• Flanders Research Foundation (Project: Creating the Ethical Body: Neo-Confucian Ethics in Early Modern Japanese Health Cultivation Literature"), 2019-2023
• Belgian Federal Policy Office (Project: "Imagining Health, Disease and the Body in Early Modern Japan"), 2017-2019
• JSPS Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2016
• Japan Foundation PhD Fellowship, 2011-2012