Contributors
- Contributors
Brent Allison is a PhD student in the Program in Social Foundations of Education at the University of Georgia. He manages the Web site www.animefandom.org.
William L. Benzon has published extensively on literature and cultural evolution. He is author of Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture.
Christopher Bolton teaches Japanese literature and comparative literature at Williams College and is coeditor of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime (Minnesota, 2007).
Martha Cornog has written articles on manga for the sexology literature and, with Timothy Perper, is editing a book on graphic novels in libraries. She writes the graphic novel column for Library Journal.
Patrick Drazen is author of Anime Explosion! The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation.
Yuriko Furuhata is a PhD student in comparative literature at Brown University.
Meredith Suzanne Hahn Aquila is a recent graduate of the Master of Communication program at Cornell University.
Marc Hairston is a professional space physicist at the University of Texas at Dallas. He wrote for Animerica and is a regular speaker at the Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits workshops at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Azuma Hiroki is a Japanese cultural critic and author of numerous books, including Sonzaironteki, Yubinteki: Jacques Derrida nitsuite and the best-selling Dobutsukasuru Postmodern.
Mari Kotani is a science fiction film critic and author of Techno-gynesis: The Political Unconscious of Feminist Science Fiction.
Shu Kuge is an illustrator who works in San Francisco and Tokyo.
Thomas LaMarre is a professor at McGill University and author of Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Juni'ichirō on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics and Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription.
Margherita Long is assistant professor of comparative literature and foreign languages at the University of California, Riverside.
Frenchy Lunning is a professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and codirector of SGMS: Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits, a weekend workshop there.
Daisuke Miyao is assistant professor of Japanese film at the University of Oregon and author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom.
Hiromi Mizuno is assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota.
Mariana Ortega is a translator and illustrator.
Timothy Perper has written articles on manga for the sexology literature and, with Martha Cornog, is editing a book on graphic novels in libraries.
Eron Rauch is an artist based in Los Angeles. [End Page 302]
Trina Robbins is an award-winning writer who has been writing comics and books for more than thirty years.
Brian Ruh is author of Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii. He is currently a PhD candidate in communication and culture at Indiana University.
Deborah Shamoon is assistant professor of Japanese literature and popular culture at the University of Notre Dame.
Marc Steinberg is a PhD student of modern culture and media at Brown University.
Masami Toku is associate professor of art education at the California State University, Chico.
Keith Vincent is assistant professor of Japanese and comparative literature at Boston University. [End Page 303]
