Contributors
- Contributors
Amamiya Karin is author of Ikijigoku tengoku (Living hell heaven) and Ikisasero! Nanminka suru wakamono tachi (Let us live! Youth and increasing displacement). She is a writer, precariat activist, and deputy representative of the Antipoverty Campaign Network (Hanhinkon Nettowāku).
Madeline Ashby is a graduate student and science fiction writer living in Toronto. Her work is available at escapingthetrunk.net and fandomresearch.org.
Jodie Beck is a PhD candidate at McGill University in Montreal. Her research interests include contemporary Japanese fiction, women's fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and social movements.
Christopher Bolton is associate professor of comparative and Japanese literature at Williams College. He is author of Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kōbō and coeditor (with Istvan Csiscery-Ronay Jr. and Takayuki Tatsumi) of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime (Minnesota, 2007).
Ian Condry is associate professor of Japanese cultural studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A cultural anthropologist, he is author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization. He is working on his second book, "The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story." He founded the MIT/Harvard Cool Japan research project, which organizes seminars, international conferences, and cultural events aimed at exploring the cultural connections, dangerous distortions, and critical potential of popular culture. His Web page is http://iancondry.com.
Martha Cornog has written articles on manga for the sexology literature and is coeditor (with Timothy Perper) of Graphic Novels beyond the Basics: Insights and Issues for Libraries. She writes the graphic novel column for Library Journal and is preparing her next edited collection, Mangatopia: Essays about Manga and Anime in the Modern World.
Kathryn Dunlap is a student in the Texts and Technology PhD program at the University of Central Florida. She has been a fan of anime and manga since high school.
Gerald Figal is associate professor of Japanese cultural studies at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches Japanese history, Japanese popular culture, and anime. He is author of Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan, as well as several essays on war memorialization and tourism in Okinawa. He is working on a book about the intersection of war, peace, and tourism in postwar Okinawa.
Patrick W. Galbraith is a PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on the impact of shifts in capitalism and consumption on youth culture, specifically on otaku in Japan. He has conducted participant observation in Akihabara since 2004 and cofounded a tour of the area in 2007. He is the author of The Otaku Encyclopedia.
Marc Hairston, a space physicist at the University of Texas at Dallas, turned his hobby into [End Page 375] a second academic career. He teaches classes about anime at the University of Texas at Dallas, is a former contributor to Animerica magazine, regularly participates at the Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits workshops at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and is on the editorial board of Mechademia.
Marilyn Ivy teaches anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan as well as numerous articles concerning the aesthetic and affective conditions of (late) modernity in Japan and elsewhere.
Koichi Iwabuchi is professor of media and cultural studies at the School of International Liberal Studies of Waseda University. His research interests include media and cultural studies, cultural globalization and transnationalism, multi-cultural questions, and cultural citizenship.
Paul Jackson is a freelance writer based in England. He is studying for his MA in film studies.
Fan-Yi Lam has studied Japanese and Chinese studies at Free University of Berlin, Nihon University, and University of Tokyo. He was visiting lecturer at Free University's Institute for East Asian Studies in 2008–2009.
Thomas Lamarre is professor of East Asian studies, art history, and communications studies at McGill University. He is author of The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (Minnesota, 2009).
Frenchy Lunning is professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Paul M. Malone is associate professor of German at the University of...
