[News]

June 6, 2008

I've added a new blog to the website. Expect posts that are largely related to my research, with a few reviews of anime and some personal musings thrown in.

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March 22, 2008

The links page to the right has been updated to reflect more contributors who have been added to the Anime and Transnationalism project. March 24 I head to Manhattan to present at the American Educational Research Association, though this time not on anime or anime fandom. However, at least one scholar, Michele Knobel will be presenting a paper on AMVs entitled "Remixing Media: What Fans’ Anime Music Videos Have to Teach Us About New Literacies". It is always heartening to find that studies in anime are making inroads into my discipline.

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November 2, 2007

My conference experience at Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations went so well that I will be editing a volume along with other graduate students and recent Ph.D.s on anime and transnational reception! I am very excited about this opportunity to help all of us showcase the "next generation" of anime and manga-related scholarship. Initial drafts will be due on July 1, 2008, so stay tuned for further developments.

My talk at Chibipa: Reincarnation went very well. I invited Jason Bailey, the con chair to consider an idea to hold an "Otaku Seminar" wherein anime and manga scholars would read through texts I assign in advance on the convention website. Each scholar would submit a question for the seminar to consider at the convention, and we would try to answer, or at least address them. It would be a step beyond the "How to Conduct Anime and Manga-Related Research" panel that I have done at anime conventions for a number of years now. We will see if my call bears any fruit. I also invite other anime and manga convention chairs to consider allowing a similar activity at their conventions. I would more than likely be happy to help put it together.

As far as website updates go, I have updated my "Links" section to the right to include more names of scholars I have worked with (or will be soon), the "Academic and Anime Conventions" section to add more conventions I have been involved with, and my curriculum/vitae to add more conference presentations.

On a side note, considering my current dissertation progress, I will be set to receive my Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in May (or August) 2008. Knocks on wood towards this end would be appreciated.

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July 8, 2007

I will be at the Obiquitous Media: Asian Transformations conference at Tokyo University, as well as in the Tokyo area from July 12-19. The paper I am presenting is titled, "Race and Nationalism: Permeance in U.S. Media and the Japanese Animation Fandom Response".

I have also updated my list of essays to reflect two dissertation chapters and the paper I am presenting at Tokyo University.

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