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Julia Alekseyeva is fi nishing her PhD in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and teaches Cinema Studies at Brooklyn College. Her dissertation analyses the avant-garde documentary traditions of Japan, France and the former USSR. Her articles on 1960s cinema have appeared in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema and Th e Cine- Files. Concurrently with her academic work, Julia is an author-illustrator whose debut graphic novel, Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution (Microcosm Publishing), was published in January 2017.

Laz Carter is completing his PhD – entitled ‘Going Global: Studio Ghibli, Global and the Popularisation of a Medium- Genre’ – at SOAS, University of London. His research interests include studies of stardom, authorship, anime and paratextual marketing materials. He also has a journal article forthcoming with the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture .

Tracey Daniels-Lerberg holds a PhD with a Women’s and Gender Studies Certifi cate from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her dissertation, Rethinking Resistance: Race, Gender, and Place in the Fictive and Real Geographies of the American West draws on cultural and critical race studies, and environmental and feminist theory to examine representations of and writing by minorities and women. Her research and teaching interests include early and nineteenth-century American literatures and cultures of the United States.

Matthew Lerberg is an instructor at the University of Texas Arlington where he teaches courses in environmental humanities and animal studies. His primary area of study is environmental theory, animal studies, and critical theory in relation to Western literature, fi lm, and art. His scholarly interests include how popular cultural representations of environments and non- human animals can help interrogate the ethics of human’s relationships to both. His articles on popular culture, the environment, and animal studies have appeared in Green Letters and he has authored Screening the Non- human (Lexington Books, 2016).

Helen McCarthy is an independent scholar, writer and presenter. She began researching Japanese comics and animation in 1981, and written the fi rst book in English on anime in 1993. She has since written more than a dozen

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books on anime and , and has contributed to a number of academic publications. Her works have been translated into seven languages. Th ey include critical biographies of and , and the shortest to date. She is the co-author of Th e Anime Encyclopedia , widely regarded as the key text in the fi eld.

Jennifer E. Nicholson is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Sydney. Her doctoral research focuses on Shakespeare as a ‘translator’ of French sources in writing ‘Hamlet’. She also hopes to consider francophone translations of the play, and to situate both doctoral and further research projects across both Shakespeare studies and world literature. Th e topic of her thesis stems from her wider interest in the unstable meanings generated in both interlingual and intralingual translation.

Eija Niskanen is the programming director for Helsinki Cine Asia and one of the founding members of Helsinki International Film Festival, and coordinates yearly Finland Film Festival event in Japan. She is doing Asian fi lm and animation- related teaching and research at the University of Helsinki, currently working on the Moomins in Japan, for which project she has also been an exchange scholar at Meiji University in 2016. She has conducted industrial research on Finland– Japan co- production possibilities for Finnanimation in 2015 and for Th e Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (Etla) in 2010. Other publications include ‘Ordinary Extraordinary: 3.11 in Japanese Fiction Film’ in Film on the Faultline , ed. Alan Wrights, University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Emma Pett is a lecturer at the University of East Anglia specializing in audience and reception studies, with a particular interest in transcultural contexts of media reception and cultural policy. Her PhD was a collaborative doctoral award with the British Board of Film Classifi cation (BBFC). Emma is honorary Research Associate on the ‘Cultural Memories of British Cinema- going in the 1960s’ project based at the University College London, and has previously worked at the Universities of Bristol and South Wales. Emma’s current research projects are focused on the transcultural reception of East Asian media, audiences of immersive media and, with Karina Aveyard, community cinema cultures. Emma has articles published in Participations , Th e Journal of British Film and Television and the New Review of Film and Television .

Alice Vernon is a Creative Writing PhD student at Aberystwyth University. Her interests include women creators of comics and manga, particularly the work of and Kaoru Mori. She is researching the Welsh landscapes in the comics of Carol Swain. Her article, ‘Digital Sleep and the Performance of Lucidity in Paprika ’ was published in Performance Research in 2016.

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Shiro Yoshioka is a lecturer in Japanese Studies at Newcastle University. His main research interests include Japanese popular culture, especially anime, fan culture, popular history, memory and nostalgia. He has written articles and book chapters on Ghibli and Miyazaki in English and Japanese, and is working on a monograph on Miyazaki, which overviews his life and career contextualizing it within a broader picture of history of Japan and the world as well as anime.

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