ABOUT

Dr. Sophia Staite is a Lecturer in Humanities (Philosophy & Gender Studies) at the University of Tasmania, Australia, a past fellow of the Global Sentimentality Project at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany, and the leading English-language scholar of influential Japanese superhero franchise Kamen Rider (1971 – ongoing). Sophia is the editor of Transformation and Metamorphosis in Popular Culture, and their work appears in The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies, Children’s Literature in Education, The International Journal of Disney Studies, Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, and Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific.