Prichard’s research interests focus on the provocative forms of exchange across works of criticism, fiction, film and photography that offer vivid new perspectives on the worldwide experience of urban becoming. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the rapid transformation of the urban and media environments of Japanese cultural practice in the 1960s and 70s. He received his PhD in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at University of California, Los Angeles (2011). Prior to arriving at Princeton, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University, and taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (Source)