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  • Contributors

David Beynon is senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Building at Deakin University, Australia, and practicing architect at alsoCAN Architects in Melbourne, Australia.

Fujimoto Yukari is associate professor of global Japanese studies at Meiji University. She is the author of Watashi no ibasho wa doko ni aru no: shōjo manga ga utsusu kokoro no katachi (Where do I belong? The shape of the heart as reflected in girls’ comics), Kairaku denryuu: onna no, yokubo no, karachi (Electric current of pleasure: The form, of women’s, desire), Shōjo manga tamashii (The soul of shōjo manga), and Aijō hyōron: “Kazoku” o meguru monogatari (Love critique: Stories of “family”).

Yuriko Furuhata is assistant professor of East Asian studies and faculty member of World Cinemas Program at McGill University.

Craig Jackson is assistant professor of mathematics at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Reginald Jackson is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

Thomas Lamarre teaches East Asian studies, art history, and communication studies at McGill University. His books include Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics, Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription, and The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (Minnesota, 2009).

Jinying Li is assistant professor of film studies at Oregon State University.

Waiyee Loh is a doctoral student in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She was formerly a librarian at a performing arts library in Singapore.

Livia Monnet is professor of comparative literature, film, and Japanese studies at the University of Montreal. She has published extensively on animation, media art, and Japanese and world literature and cinema.

Sharalyn Orbaugh is professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia.

Stefan Riekeles lives in Berlin. He was the program director of the International Symposium on Electronic Art in 2010 and the artistic director of the Japan Media Arts Festival Dortmund 2011. He has curated the exhibition Proto Anime Cut—Spaces and Visions in Japanese Animation, currently on tour in Europe. He is the deputy chairman of Les Jardins des Pilotes.

Atsuko Sakaki is professor of East Asian studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Obsessions with Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature and Recontextualizing Text: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction and the translator and editor of The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories by Kurahashi Yumiko.

Miryam Sas is professor of comparative literature and film and media at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return and Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism. [End Page 299]

Timon Screech is chair of the history of art and archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and permanent visiting professor at Tama Art University, Tokyo. He is the author of several books, including Obtaining Images: Art, Production, and Display in Edo Japan and Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700–1820.

Emily Somers is a transgender academic, currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University.

Marc Steinberg is assistant professor of film studies in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. He is the author of Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan (Minnesota, 2012).

Rachel Thorn is associate professor in the Faculty of Manga at Kyoto Seika University. She is the translator and editor of Moto Hagio’s A Drunken Dream and Other Stories and Shimura Takako’s Wandering Son. [End Page 300]

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