ABOUT

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.