Interviews (as interviewee)
“Episode 33: Author Arthur Shattuck O’Keefe— ‘The Spirit Phone.’” Let’s Find Out With Co-Host Diego, 24 December 2023.
“Writing, Traveling, And Thought Provoking Story Ideas with Arthur O’Keefe.” Chronicles and Coffee, 21 Feb. 2023.
“Arthur O’Keefe and his Spirit Phone.” Radio Retrofuture, 29 Dec. 2021.
Articles and Interviews (as interviewer)
“Slice of Life: An Interview with Patrick Parr.” Rain Taxi, Vol. 28, No. 2, Summer 2023 (print).
“The Myth of the Edison-Tesla Spirit Phone Rivalry.” Medium, 14 Feb. 2023.
“His Own Private Idaho: An Interview with Ryan Blacketter.” Rain Taxi, Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 2022 (print).
“The Beast and the Buddha: Aleister Crowley’s 1901 Sojourn in Japan.” Medium, 2 Jan. 2022.
“Nikola Tesla - Wizard at War: Interview with Tesla Biographer Marc J. Seifer.” New Dawn, No. 190, Jan.-Feb. 2022 (print).
“A Cut Above.” Kyoto Journal, 22 Dec. 2021. (Book reviews: the short fiction collection Strokes of Brush and Blade: Tales of the Samurai, edited by Janice Lee; the nonfiction work Forty-seven Samurai: A Tale of Vengeance and Death in Haiku and Letters by Hiroaki Sato.)
“Sideways and The Archivist Author Rex Pickett on the Lure of the Dark Archives.” PopMatters, 2 Dec. 2021. (Interview with author Rex Pickett on his past and current projects.)
“Aleister Crowley and Nikola Tesla’s One Degree of Separation.” PopMatters, 16 April 2021.
“Ethnographer Megha Wadhwa on the Indian Diaspora in Japan.” PopMatters, 5 April 2021. (Interview with the author of Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds)
“When Civil Rights, The Vietnam War, and a Presidential Election Converged on Notre Dame.” PopMatters, 9 Mar. 2021. (Review of One Week in America by Patrick Parr.)
‘‘‘90% of What You Experience is Rejection:’ The World of Screenwriting, as Told by Japan Expat Matthew Allen.” Japan Today, 24 Aug. 2020.
“Does Inclusivity Mean That Everyone Does the Same Thing?” PopMatters, 2 Apr. 2020. (Review of On Diversity by Russell Jacoby.)
“Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu: Japan’s Shakespeare Sheds Light on the Common Man.” The Japan Times, 21 Dec. 2019. (Review of the English translation by Donald Keene.)
“The Tavern: Yokohama’s Original Rugby Bar Gears up for the 2019 Rugby World Cup.” Metropolis, 18 Sep. 2019.
“The Man Who Set the Bar for British Pubs in Yokohama.” The Japan Times, 10 Feb. 2019. (Article on Yokohama’s oldest English pub, The Tavern.)
“Foreigners’ Rights in Japan: Interview with Activist and Writer Debito Arudou.” PopMatters, 15 Jan. 2019.
“George Orwell as Essayist: The Democratic Socialist Who Never Sought a Safe Space.” PopMatters, 7 Nov. 2018. (Review of the Orwell essay collections Facing Unpleasant Facts and All Art is Propaganda.)
“The Darkness Within: 13 Films That Burrow into Our Psyches.” PopMatters, 29 Oct. 2018. Co-authors Alex Lindstrom, William Layman, et al. (Own portion: “Nosferatu (1922).”)
“On a Turning Point for Martin Luther King, Jr.” PopMatters, 5 Oct. 2018. (Review of The Seminarian by Patrick Parr.)
“The Journey: Jiro Osaragi Depicts a Society Coming to Grips with Defeat and Occupation.” The Japan Times, 22 Sep. 2018. (Review of the English translation by Ivan Morris.)
“The Tavern: Yokohama’s Oldest British Pub.” Metropolis, 16 Sep. 2017.
“Unorthodox Acupuncturist’s Point is to Make Sure You Never Have to Come Back.” The Japan Times, 5 July 2017. (Article on German acupuncturist and Japan resident Thomas Blasejewicz.)
“Western Media Cherry-pick Facts and Phalli to Fit the ‘No Vagina’ Narrative in Japan.” The Japan Times, 3 July 2016. (A critique of Anglophone media coverage of the arrest of artist Megumi Igarashi under Japan’s obscenity law. For a more detailed analysis, see this paper by Mark J. McLelland.)
Academic and Educational Writing
Listen for It! Iizuna Shoten, 2020. Coauthors Atsuko Kashiwagi, Hiroki Yajima. English listening textbook for Japanese high schools.
“The Female Characters of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Last Good Country.’” Gakuen. Showa Women’s University, October 2018.
“The Role of Politics in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Gakuen. Showa Women’s University, June 2018.
“Delusion, Lucidity, and the Imposition of Will: Mark Twain’s Hank Morgan as the Anti-Don Quixote.” Gakuen. Showa Women’s University, November 2017.
O-Lex Japanese-English Dictionary, Second Edition. Obunsha, 2016. Co-authors Atsuko Kashiwagi, Caroline E. Kano, et al. Expanded entries in English explaining Japanese culture-related definitions in detail.
“Authority and the Individual in Mark Twain.” Think. International Academic Forum, 10 December 2015. (Text version of a 2013 presentation; combines content from the two works listed below as well as my Master’s thesis of the same title.)
“The Morally Imperative Lie in Twain’s Connecticut Yankee.” The Midwest Quarterly. Vol. LIV, No. 1, Autumn 2012.
“Moral Clarity and Power Relationships in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” National Defense Academy of Japan, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences Series. No. 103, October 2011.