[1] Momma held the position of Cameron Professor of Old English Language and Literature at the University of Toronto between 2017 and 2019.
[2] Momma was born in Japan and received her BA and MA in English from Hokkaido University.
While at Toronto, she was a research assistant at The Dictionary of Old English, which was then edited by Antonette diPaolo Healey and Ashley Crandell Amos.
[3] In her second monograph, Momma turned to English literature and language in the nineteenth century, focusing on how key philologists, including Max Müller and William Jones, shaped the study of the vernacular in Britain.
She urged teachers to rethink the canon of teaching texts, to look for the easily accessible as well as the strange, and to trouble the continued use of the same selections as were available in Thorpe and Sweet’s readers.