Awards & Scholarship

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP & SCHOLARSHIPS

• The American Studies Foundation (AMSF), Conference Travel Grant, 200,000 yen (2024)

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grant-in-Aid for Early Career Researchers, research entitled “Rethinking Hemingway Literature in the Anthropocene Era: A Posthumanist Reading,” 3,500,000yen (May 2022)  

• University of Tsukuba Getway Publication Grant, 150,000 yen (6 Aug. 2021)

• The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, Lewis-Raynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship, 1,000 USD (17 Mar. 2021)

• The Popular/American Culture Association, Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowship, 500 USD (25 Feb. 2021)

• The Hemingway Foundation, Hinkle Travel Grant, 1,000 USD (20 Jul. 2020)

• Osaka University Cross-Boundary Innovation Program, individual research entitled “Rethinking ‘Hemingway’: Uncovering the Historical and Cultural Influences of Oak Park and Cuba on Ernest Hemingway,” 572,000 yen (24 Jun. 2016)

• Osaka University Cross-Boundary Innovation Program, individual research entitled “Discovering the Utopian Perspective of America,” 263,232 yen (11 Sept. 2015)

• Osaka University Cross-Boundary Innovation Program, individual research entitled “Catching the Rhythm in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises,” 350,000 yen (1 Dec. 2014)

• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology (MEXT) Scholarship Program, 148,000 yen (Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2019)

• Yoneyama Memorial Scholarship Program, 100,000 yen (Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2014)

QUALIFICATION / Completion of course

• Japanese Language Proficiency Test (N1)

• Driving License in Malaysia and Japan

• Junior High and High School English Teaching License in Japan

• Cambridge CELTA  (April 2023)

• Cross-Boundary Innovation Program (2019)

• Intensive English Language Study and General English at Monash University English Language Centre