Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Language and Literature (ISL) at NTNU (from February 2024 to January 2026), I hold my PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Copenhagen (KU), where I also did my masters in Comparative Literature. Before becoming a PhD fellow at KU, I also did cultural studies research as Monbugakusho research student in Japan from 2008-2010, and after finishing I returned to Japan as JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Waseda University in Tokyo from 2017-2018.

As a postdoctorate at ISL, I am connected with the research project ImagiNation, which concerns itself with literary geographical methods and digital humanities. In my specific research I focus on understanding some of the early presentations of Japan and East Asia in Norwegian literature as well as other Nordic literature from the 1850s and onward.

My research interests include modern Japanese literature, translation theory,  theories of the modern novel, and the renewed discussions of world literature.

Other related research interests include orientalism theory, feminist theory and posthumanism, and Scandinavian contemporary literature and poetry.