She was awarded a PhD in 2014 from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London for her thesis on female representation in postwar Japanese popular cinema. She has been a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (2012) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian National University (2011). Her publications include 'The Shape-Shifting Diva: Yamaguchi Yoshiko and the National Body' in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema (July 2014), 'Victims and Bystanders: Women in the Japanese War Retro Film' in the Journal of Media, War and Conflict (December 2013), and Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964 (Hong Kong University Press, 2016).