His areas of research include cultural anthropology, Japanese studies, critical theory, new media studies, animation, mass culture, architecture and urban form. Author of Visioning Eternity: Aesthetics, Politics, and History in the Early Modern Noh Theatre (Cornell University East Asia Book Series, 2008), he also has published numerous articles in Mechademia, Shingenjitsu, Japan Forum, The Journal of Pacific Asia, and other periodicals.