ABOUT

A three-time award-winning instructor, Mimi Okabe is an Assistant Professor at Baruch College, CUNY, where she teaches Japanese language, anime and video games. Her research explores boy and girl detectives in Japanese popular culture, with scholarly contributions to Victorians and Videogames, and forthcoming work in Crime Fiction Studies and Crime Does Play. Her first monograph, Manga, Murder, and Mystery, won the 2023 International Crime Fiction Association Book Prize. She is currently writing her second book, Sleuthing Shōjo, which explores girl detectives in Japanese manga. An avid Sherlockian, Mimi is a member of the Bootmakers of Toronto, the Shaka Sherlockians of Hawaii and an honorary member of the Japan Sherlock Holmes Club.