[Comicsstudiessociety] Sept 30: Roundtable: Why Do We Study Anime and Manga?

[Mike Rhode]

Sept 30
[EP1] Roundtable: Why Do We Study Anime and Manga?
by The Japan Foundation
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Event Information
*Let's dive into the world of Anime & Manga Studies! Join us for a
discussion with professors about the field that fascinates them so much.*
About this Event

The Japan Foundation, New York is launching a monthly online series delving
into *Japanese pop culture* from academic and professional perspectives!

With the help of professors and creators all over the world, we will
discuss various topics from anime, manga, video games, fashion, J-pop, and
more. We hope that this series will be one of the platforms for you to
learn more about what you love!

Join our first session with four of the leading experts who were
instrumental in popularizing Anime and Manga Studies in U.S. academia. Come
be a part of the panel discussion with *Christopher Bolton*, *Wendy
Goldberg*, *N.C. Christopher Couch* and *Frenchy Lunning*, as they discuss
the deep and fascinating world of studying anime and manga. We will hear
how their love of anime and manga led them down the path to advanced study.

The discussion will be followed by a live Q&A. If you have any questions
about anime, manga, or a related field of study prior to the event, please
feel free to post it on the Eventbrite page when you register. Live
commentary will also be enabled on the YouTube stream, so you can
participate in the live Q&A session.

This is a *free* event. Registrants will receive the link to the stream via
email.

We look forward to seeing you there!

*Prof. Christopher Bolton:*

Christopher Bolton, PhD, teaches comparative and Japanese literature at
Williams College. His research focuses on modern and contemporary Japanese
literature and visual culture, particularly prose fiction and animation.
His books include *Interpreting Anime* (2018), and *Sublime Voices: Science
and Fiction in the Work of Abe Kōbō* (2009). He has also co-edited many
volumes of criticism focused on anime and Japanese popular culture: *Robot
Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime*
(2007), and the first ten volumes of the *Mechademia* series, for work on
Japanese anime, manga, and the fan arts (2006-2015).

> Official Website <https://redcocoon.org/>

*Prof. Wendy Goldberg:*

Wendy Goldberg is a core lecturer in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric
at the University of Mississippi (UM). The six years prior to joining UM,
she taught composition and speech at The United States Coast Guard Academy
(New London, CT). She has also taught composition and literature courses at
the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT) and Three Rivers Community
College (Norwich, CT) as well as summer courses at the Johns Hopkins’
Center for Talented Youth. She has presented and published papers on comics
and anime and is the former submissions editor for *Mechademia*, a
completed ten-volume forum for critical work on Japanese manga, anime, and
related arts.

> Official Website <https://rhetoric.olemiss.edu/team/wendy-goldberg/>

*Prof. N.C. Christopher Couch:*

N. C. Christopher Couch holds a PhD in art history from Columbia
University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Latin
American art and on graphic novels and comic art, including *The Will
Eisner Companion: The Pioneering Spirit of the Father of the Graphic Novel*
(with Stephen Weiner), *Will Eisner: A Retrospective* (with Peter Myer), *Faces
of Eternity: Masks of the Pre-Columbian Americas, and The Festival Cycle of
the Aztec Codex Borbonicus.*

> Official Website <https://www.umass.edu/complit/member/christopher-couch>

*Prof. Frenchy Lunning:*

Frenchy Lunning, PhD, has written two books—*Subcultural Fashion: Fetish
Style* (Bloomsbury, 2013) and *Cosplay: The Masque of Fandom* (University
of Minnesota Press, 2017)—and is working on a third, *Revolutionary Girl:
Shōjo*. She has also written various essays in anthologies and journals.
The director of the academic conferences SGMS: Mechademia Conference on
Asian Popular Cultures in both the US and in Asia, she was also the
editor-in-chief of *Mechademia*, a completed ten volume book series
published by the University of Minnesota Press, and is now
co-editor-in-chief of the new *Mechademia: Second Arc* journal, the first
issue in spring of 2019.

> Official Website <https://mcad.edu/faculty/frenchy-lunning>
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