Camil Valerio Ristè

November 30, 2024

Camil Valerio Ristè is currently a Teaching Tutor and a PhD candidate for the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, specializing in LGBTQ+ representations in Japanese pop media. His research aims to analyse the development and aesthetic or narrative application of “queerness” in the native Japanese context, using comics and animation as the main reference point to aid his study....

Douglas Schules

by jasmine

November 10, 2024

Douglas Schules is an associate professor of media based in Tokyo and serial designer of games that never make it out of beta. His research revolves around the relationships between media, technology and society, with his current work focusing on the indie game industry in Japan. He has interviewed Japanese indie game developers, organized events to showcase their games, and is in the process of putting together an archive so this work will not be lost. His own games, which has been sold at Comiket, will not be included....

Liudmila Bredikhina

by jasmine

September 15, 2024

Liudmila Bredikhina is a Ph.D. candidate at SETU, School of Humanities. She is researching male kawaī and gender practices in Japan. Through virtual ethnographic fieldwork, feminist perspectives and masculinity studies, she interrogates men’s discursive practices surrounding cuteness and investigates how they harness the virtual space to perform ‘other’ identities. Although she is affiliated with SETU since 2024, she is presenting as an independent researcher. Links: https://setu.academia.edu/LiudmilaBredikhina https://twitter.com/BredikhinaL...

Benjamin Woo

by jasmine

November 2, 2023

Benjamin Woo is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), where he directs the Research on Comics, Con Events, and Transmedia Laboratory. Ben is the author of Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture, co-author of The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books, and co-editor of The Comics World: Comics, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics, among other works....

Davis Madole

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November 28, 2022

Davis Madole is a content creator, aspiring writer, and filmmaker. Davis is the owner of the YouTube channel "TitanGoji" where he writes and uploads video essays on tokusatsu and anime with a deep love for Japanese pop culture....

Andrea Horbinski

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November 28, 2022

Andrea Horbinski holds a PhD in modern Japanese history with a designated emphasis in new media from the University of California, Berkeley. Her book, Manga’s Global Century: A History of Japanese Comics, 1905-1989, is under contract to the University of California Press. She has discussed anime, manga, fandom, and Japanese history at conventions and conferences on five continents, and her articles have appeared in Transformative Works and Cultures, Convergence, Internet Histories, and Mechademia. She currently serves as the submissions editor for Mechademia: Second Arc and on the board of The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies....