He did his doctoral research in modern Japanese literature, aesthetics, and literary theory at Cornell University, focussing upon the relationship between Japanese nationalism and modernist poetics. He teach courses on modern literature, nationalism, film, and Asian classics. His article, "Oliver Stone's JFK and the Loss of Social Memory," is forthcoming in 2000 Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and TV Studies CD-ROM Annual (March 2001).