• 2022 - present: Part-time PhD Researcher (Gendered Identities in Popular Music: Corpus-informed Discourse Analysis of Song Lyrics in the UK and Japan in 2008-2020), Cultural Studies, Music and Sound, University of Gloucestershire, UK
• 2017 - 2019: Part-time PhD Researcher (Gendered Identities in Popular Music: Corpus-based Discourse Analysis of Song Lyrics in the UK and Japan), Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck University of London, UK
• 2012 - 2013: MA (with Merit, ‘Gender in Popular Music: A Corpus-informed and Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Top-selling Albums in 1971 and 2011’), Critical Discourse, Culture and Communication, Department of English, University of Birmingham, UK
• 2009 - 2011: BA, English Literature, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Japan

I am a Japanese national and native speaker with extensive experience in education, the media industry, and professional organizations in both the UK and Japan. Before joining Aberystwyth University, I taught in UK higher education for about 10 years, delivering Japanese language and culture to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and in Japan I also taught English in universities, business organizations, and schools. In addition to teaching, I have worked as an administrator and translator on projects related to healthcare and cross-cultural practices, and have media experience as a writer and FM radio DJ.

My current doctoral research investigates the discursive construction of gender identities in popular music in Japan and the UK. Drawing on discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, I analyze commercially successful song lyrics to explore how gender is indexed and represented across these cultural contexts.

In my free time, I enjoy practicing the acoustic and bass guitar, photography, and oil painting, as well as singing loud while cooking.