The HAKUBI Center for Advanced Research Program-Specific Associate Professor
She is currently a Hakubi associate professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. She received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), Paris, as well as in History from the University of Fribourg. In her dissertation, she analyzed how the images and stories of Japanese “martyrs,” recorded first in missionaries’ reports, were reproduced in the hagiographic literature, and diffused as a popular theme of the Jesuit school drama in Catholic Europe. Her first book called “From the distant Indies to the scenes of colleges : the reflections of the Japanese Martyrs in Europe (16th - 18th century)” was published by Aschendorff (Münster) in 2020. She is also an author of more than a dozen of articles on history of Japanese martyrs, written in English, French, and Japanese.