1965年生、東京大学大学院人文科学研究科修士課程修了。文学修士。
現在、北海道大学大学院文学研究科教授(西洋文学講座)。
論文に “Gatsbyʼs Green Light as a Traffic Signal: F. Scott Fitzgeraldʼs Motive Force,” (F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, 14, pp. 198-214, 2016), “Tracking Twain: The Unfulfilled Pursuit in Mark Twainʼs Detective Fiction,” (American Literary Realism, 48.2, pp. 166-182, 2016), “Twainʼs Trauma and the Unresolved Murder of Huckleberry Finnʼs Father,” (Literary Imagination, 15.3, pp. 259-274, 2013).