She has a PhD in contemporary Irish poetry, which included a period of research at Trinity College, Dublin; and an MA in comparative literary theories from University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests include comparative literature and translation studies, with a current focus on the translation of Irish poetry written in English into Japanese, and research into the modern and contemporary Japanese women’s poetry. She is completing her second PhD at the ANU and has recently begun a project to re-assess and re-evaluate women’s poetry in Japan before and during the Asia-Pacific War funded by a Kakehi (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research) funded grant, “Gender and Literary Studies on Women’s Poetry in 1920-30s Japan”.