Contributors
- Contributors
steven r. anderson is a clinical research coordinator in New York City.
dale k. andrews is associate professor at Tohoku Gakuin University.
andreu ballús is a PhD candidate in contemporary philosophy at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
jodie beck is a PhD candidate at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
christopher bolton is associate professor of comparative and Japanese literature at Williams College. He is the author of Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kôbô and coeditor of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime (Minnesota, 2007).
kukhee choo is faculty of communication at Tulane University. She is the coeditor of Contents Transformation in East Asia: Popular Culture, Media, and Identity.
rayna denison is lecturer and researcher of film, television, and media at the University of East Anglia.
lucy fraser received her PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia. She has published translations of literary criticism, short stories, and interviews with Japanese writers.
fujimoto yukari is associate professor of global Japanese studies at Meiji University, Japan. She is the author of Watashi no ibasho wa doko ni aruno? (Where do I belong?), Shôjo manga damashii (The spirit of shôjo manga), Kairaku denryū (The electric current of pleasure), and Aijô hyôron (Critique of love).
forrest greenwood is a PhD student in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University Bloomington.
imamura taihei (1911–1986), one of Japan’s most renowned and accomplished film critics and theorists, published a broad range of books on cinema, animation, art, literature, and theory, among them Kiroku eigaron (1940, Documentary film theory), Manga eigaron (1941, Cartoon film theory), Nihon eiga no honshitsu (1943, Fundamentals of Japanese cinema), Eiga riron nyūmon (1952, An introduction to film theory), Itaria eiga, sono neoriarizumu (1953, The neorealism of Italian cinema), and Shiga Naoya ron (1970, On Shiga Naoya).
seth jacobowitz is assistant professor of East Asian languages and literatures at Yale University. He is the translator of the Edogawa Rampo Reader and the forthcoming Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History.
joon yang kim is the author of Animation, Alchemy of Images and Empire of Images: Animation on the Japanese Islands. The latter was awarded the Poranabi Prize from the Japan Foundation. His essays have been published in Korean, Japanese, and English. He is associate editor of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and editor of the journal of the Japan Society for Animation Studies. He teaches at Tokyo Zokei University.
thomas lamarre teaches East Asian studies and art history and communication studies at McGill University. His books include Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirô on Cinema and [End Page 317] Oriental Aesthetics, Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription, and The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (Minnesota, 2009).
margherita long is associate professor of comparative literature and foreign languages at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of This Perversion Called Love: Reading Tanizaki, Feminist Theory, and Freud.
matsumoto nobuyuki is director of the curatorial planning department and head curator of Asian art at the Tokyo National Museum.
laura miller is Ei’ichi Shibusawa-Siego Arai Endowed Professor of Japanese Studies and professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri–Saint Louis.
alexandra roedder received her PhD in musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
paul roquet is an Andrew W. Mellon fellow in the humanities at Stanford University.
brian ruh received his PhD in communication and culture from Indiana University. He writes about Japanese film and animation and is the author of Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii.
shun’ya yoshimi is professor of sociology, cultural studies, and media studies at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of several books in Japanese.
alba g. torrents is a PhD candidate in contemporary philosophy at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and in communication studies at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. [End Page 318]
