Brief CV
Education
Stanford University. Ph.D. in Japanese. 1998.
Harvard University. A.B. in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering. 1989.
Teaching
Williams College
Assistant Professor of Japanese.Department of Asian Studies and Program in Comparative Literature. 2003-present.
University of California, Riverside
Assistant Professor of Japanese. Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages. 1998 - 2003.
- Associate Editor. Mechademia, an annual forum for academic criticism of anime, manga, and fan arts, from University of Minnesota Press.
- Co-Editor, with Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.and Tatsumi Takayuki, of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). More information on the press's web site.
Articles and Book Chapters
- 「コンテキストが完全に変わっても、それどころか変わったときに新し意味が次々と出てくるものは？アメリカで読む笙野頼子」『論座』[New meanings keep unfolding, even in new contexts, especially in new contexts: Reading Shōno Yoriko in America," Ronza] 157 (June 2008): 212-213.
- "The Quick and the Undead: Visual and Political Dynamics in Blood: The Last Vampire." Mechademia 2 (2007): 125-42.
- 「歌い合う機械たちーー安部公房とサイエンス・フィクション」内藤由直・友田義行共訳 岩波「文学」["Machinic chorus: Abe Kōbō and science fiction." Translated into Japanese by Naitō Yoshitada and Tomoda Yoshiyuki. Iwanami Bungaku] 8.4 (July-August 2007): 33-49.
- "Anime Horror and its Audience: 3x3 Eyes and Vampire Princess Miyu." In Japanese Horror Cinema. Ed. Jay McRoy. Edinburgh University Press, 2005. 66-76.
- "Abe Kōbō." The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature. Ed. Joshua Mostow. Columbia University Press, 2003. 193-97.
- "The Mecha's Blind Spot: Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of Anime." Science Fiction Studies 29.3 (November 2002): 453-74. Reprinted in Bolton, Csicsery-Ronay, and Tatsumi, Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams, 123-47. Abstract available on the SFS web site.
- "From Wooden Cyborgs to Celluloid Souls: Mechanical Bodies in Anime and Japanese Puppet Theater." positions: east asia cultures critique 10.3 (Winter 2002): 729-71.
- "The Dialog of Styles and the Dance of Fiction in Abe Kōbō's The Face of Another." In Bakhtinian Theory in Japanese Studies. Ed. Jeffrey Johnson. Edwin Mellen Press, 2001. 153-85.
- "Abe Kōbō." In Modern Japanese Authors. Ed. Jay Rubin. Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. 1-18.
- 「科学（サイエンス）とフィクション、そしてポストモダン—安部公房『第四間氷期』論」『昭和文学研究』 [Fiction, Science, and the Postmodern: Abe Kōbō's Inter Ice Age 4]." In Shōwa Literary Studies: 34 (February 1997): 91-102.
Selected Translations
- "Gundam and the Future of Japanoid Art," by Takayuki Tatsumi. Translation with response. Mechademia 3 (forthcoming in fall 2008).
- Saitō Tamaki. "Otaku Sexuality," from 「博士の奇妙な思春期」[The Doctor's Strange Adolescence]. Introduced by Kotani Mari. In Bolton, Csicsery-Ronay, and Tatsumi, Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams, 222-49.
- "Mori Minoru's Day of Resurrection." Early manga art of Komatsu Sakyō with an introduction by Tatsumi Takayuki. Mechademia 1 (2006): 87-89.
- Abe Kōbō. "The Boom in Science Fiction." Translation with introduction. Science Fiction Studies 29:3 (November 2002): 340-49. Full text on SFS web site.
- Susan Napier, Tatsumi Takayuki, et. al. "An Interview with Komatsu Sakyō." Science Fiction Studies 29:3 (November 2002): 323-39. Full text on SFS web site.
Recent Panels and Presentations
- Anime's Haunted Battlefields: Blood the Last Vampire. Bowdoin College. March 26, 2008.
- Ghosts, Angels, and Haunted Histories in the Work of Oshii Mamoru. Monsters and the Monstrous in Modern Japanese History and Culture Workshop. Indiana University. March 21-22, 2008.
- Co-Presenter, with Jonathan Leamon. "Art Mecho: Building a Virtual Art Museum in Second Life." Virtual Worlds for Teaching & Learning (Meeting of the Northeast Regional Computing Program Second Life Users Group). Norwood, MA. October 17, 2007.
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Panelist.「SF研究と教育」and「アヴァン・ポップ」["Science Fiction in Teaching and Research" and "Avant-Pop"]. Nippon 2007: Combined World Science Fiction Convention and Japanese Science Fiction Convention. Yokohama, Japan. August 30 - Sept. 3, 2007.
- "Mastering Oshii Mamoru's Avalon." National Conference of the Popular Culture Association. Boston. April 4-7, 2007.
- "Is This Class Real? Oshii's Non-Anime. Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits: Culture and Creation in Manga and Anime. Minneapolis College of Art and Design. September 29-October 1, 2006.
Time in Japan
I first went to Japan in 1984, when I spent a summer in Kyūshu as a YFU exchange student. After that I worked as a software developer in Osaka (1991), and studied language at International Christian University in Tokyo (1987) and the Inter-University Center in Yokohama (1993-94). In 1996, I conducted doctoral research as a Japan Foundation Fellow at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. Now I go back regularly for research, and to visit my wife's family in Osaka.
