Japan, Medieval Japanese women, literary history, Medieval travel diaries; women’s education and socialization before 1600; poetic practices and waka culture; theories of travel, gender, and autobiography; noh theatre; and comparative approaches to medieval literature.

Books
Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. Accepted, approx. 300 pages.

(Co-editor) The Noh Ominameshi: A Flower Viewed From Many Directions. Ithaca: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2003. 358 pages.

Review: Scholz-Cionca, Stanca. Asian Theatre Journal 22, no. 1 (2005): 154-8.

(Managing Editor) Gender and Japanese History. Vol. 1 and 2, edited by Wakita Haruko, Anne Bouchy, and Ueno Chizuko. Osaka: Osaka University Press, 1999. 428 pages, 610 pages.

Review: Hastings, Sally A. Monumenta Nipponica 56, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 102-4.

Journals
Articles
「旅、自伝、経験―阿仏尼の日記をめぐって」 “Tabi, jiden, keiken: Abutsu-ni no nikki o megutte” (Travel, Autobiography, and Experience: On the Diaries of Nun Abutsu). 『アジア遊学』 Ajia yūgaku 142. Special edition, 環境という視座―日本文学とエククリティシズム “Kankyo to iu shiza: Nihon bungaku to ecokuritishizumu” (Environmental Perspectives: Japanese Literature and Ecocriticism) (July 2011): 133-42.

“Travel as Sacrifice: Abutsu’s Poetic Journey in Diary of the Sixteenth Night.” Review of Japanese Society and Culture 19 (December 2007): 71-86.

「北米公演を終えて」 “Hokubei kōen o oete (Completion of the North American Performances).” 『観世』 Kanze (June 2007): 60-2.

「古代・中世の日記における女流紀行―ヨーロッパとの比較の可能性」 “Kodai, chūsei no nikki ni okeru ‘joryū kikō’: Yōroppa to no hikaku no kanōsei” (Women’s Travel in Ancient and Medieval Diaries: Possibilities for European Comparison). 『国文学』 Kokubungaku (Japanese Literature) (July 2006): 6-14.

「桑原佐太郎の伝記」 “Kuwabara Satarō no denki (1886-1953)” (The Biography of Kuwabara Satarō [1886-1953]). 『人間文化』 Ningen bunka (Human Cultures) 15 (March 2004): 72-3.

「十六夜日記の位置付けと解釈の可能性」 “Izayoi nikki no ichizuke to kaishaku no kanōsei” (Possibilities for the Interpretation and Repositioning of Izayoi nikki.” 『物語研究』 Monogatari Kenkyū: The Journal of the Monogatari Kenkyūkai. Special Issue: 「母」 “The Mother.” No. 3 (March 2003): 159-61.

(Translation) Imazeki Toshiko. “When Women Write: Examining the Gaps in Japanese Literary History.” Annual Review of Gender Studies. Center for Gender Studies, Kawamura Gakuen Woman’s University. Inaugural issue (2003): 73-7.

Reviews
“Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan by R. Keller Kimbrough.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 70. No. 2 (December 2010): 541-6. (Book review.)

「木村朗子『乳房はだれのものか―日本中世物語にみる性と権力』」 “Kimura Saeko, Chibusa wa dare no mono ka: Nihon chūsei monogatari ni miru sei to kenryoku (Kimura Saeko, Breasts for Whom? Sexuality and Authority in Japanese Medieval Tales).” 『女性史学』 Joseishigaku: The Annals of Women’s History. No. 20 (2010): 145-8. (Book review.) “Sacred Rites in Moonlight: Ben no Naishi Nikki.” Monumenta Nipponica 61. No. 2 (Summer 2006): 272-5. (Book review.)

「脇田晴子著『女性芸能の原流―傀儡子・謡曲・白拍子』」 “Wakita Haruko, Josei geinō no genryū: kugutsushi, kusemai, shirabyōshi” (Wakita Haruko, The Origins of Women’s Performance: Puppeteers, Song, and Dancers). 『女性史学』 Joseishigaku: The Annals of Women’s History. No. 12 (2002): 124-6. (Book review.)