Members
Fusami Ogi is a Professor in the Department of English, Chikushi Jogakuen University, Japan. She has been a leader of the “Women’s MANGA Research Project” since 2009 (the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) No. 24320047 “Research in Women’s MANGA: Glocalization and the Possibilities for Expression of Subjectivity”). She has organized international conferences and exhibits for the Women’s MANGA Research Project since 2009 (Kyoto 2009, Singapore 2011, Hanoi 2012, Sydney 2013, Hong Kong 2014, Manila 2015). She also serves as an international editor of the International Journal of Comic Art, a member of the Q-Collection Comic Book Advisory Committee, and a member of the 7th board of the Japan Society for Studies in Cartoons and Comics. The collections Ogi edited are Josei Manga Kenkyu (Seikyusha, 2015), Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities (Palgrave, edited by J. Berndt, K.Nagaike and F. Ogi, 2019), and Shōjo Across Media: Exploring Popular Sites of “Girl” Discourse in Japan (Palgrave, 2019).
Kazumi Nagaike is a Professor at the Institute for Global Education and Advanced Research at Oita University in Japan. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia (Canada) in 2005. Her research interests include studies in comparative literature, gender/sexuality, and popular culture. She is the author of Fantasies of Cross-dressing: Japanese Women Write Male-Male Erotica (Brill Academic Publishers, 2012) and co-editor of the collection Boys’ Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture and Community in Japan (University Press of Mississippi, edited by M. McLelland, K. Nagaike, K. Suganuma, and J. Welker, 2015), Shōjo Across Media: Exploring Popular Sites of “Girl” Practices in Contemporary Japan (Palgrave, edited by J. Berndt, K.Nagaike and F. Ogi, 2019), and Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities (Palgrave, 2019); she has also edited special issues of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Boys’ Love Manga 4:1, June, 2013) and Transformative Works and Cultures (Transnational Boys’ Love Fan Studies, no. 12, March, 2013). Nagaike has published a wide range of journal articles, book chapters, and translations in relation to her ongoing analysis of gender/sexuality in Japanese literature and popular culture. Her research topic in the WMRP includes an analysis of what is called queer manga (e.g. BL, GL, and etc.) in terms of glocalized views of censorship.
Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto completed her PhD at Osaka University, worked at Kyoto Seika University International Manga Research Center for several years, and is now Associate Professor at Ryukoku University, Faculty of International Studies, Department of Intercultural Communication, Arts & Media Course, as well as the Graduate School of Intercultural Communication. Her research interest is Cultural Studies, with a focus of on girls and women’s issues in Comics and Film). Her recent publications include: (forthcoming in 2021) “Creating Happy Endings: Yaoi Fanworks as Audience Response to Kaworu and Shinji’s Relationship”. In: José Andrés Santiago Iglesias, Jaqueline Berndt (eds.) Anime Studies: Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. （Co-translated with Patrick W. Galbraith） (2020) Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (2019) Yoko Tsuno and Franco-Belgian Girl Readers of Bande Desinée. In Ogi Fusami, et al. (eds.) Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities (pp.181-198). Palgrave McMillan. (2017) Negotiating religious and fan identities: “Boys’ Love” and fujoshi guilt. In: Mark McLelland ed. The End of Cool Japan——Ethical, legal, and cultural challenges to Japanese popular culture. Routledge. (pp. 184-195)
Takeshi Hamanois an Associate Professor in Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Kitakyushu, Japan. He received his PhD from the College of Arts of the Western Sydney University (Australia). HIs recent publications include: Marriage migrants of Japanese women in Australia: Remoulding gendered selves in suburban community (Springer, 2019); and ‘Witness to a transition: the manga of Kyoko Okazaki and the feminine self in the shift toward “flat culture” in Japanese consumer society.’ In F. Ogi, R. Suter, K. Nagaike, & J. A. Lent (Eds.), Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). His research topic in the WMRP is an analysis of the social construction of discourses of censorship and implementations of legal regulations on the sexual expressions in the Japanese popular culture.
Patrick W. Galbraith is an Associate Professor in the School of International Communication at Senshū University in Tokyo. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Tokyo and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. Recent publications include Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan (Duke University Press, 2019), AKB48 (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). Results of ongoing fieldwork in Akihabara appear in The Ethics of Affect: Lines and Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood, which is forthcoming from Stockholm University Press.
Miho Takeuchi received her PhD from Graduate School of Manga, Kyoto Seika University (Japan) at 2018. Her major is manga studies and art education. She teaches in Chikushi Jogakuen University as a part-time lecturer. Her recent publications include: “Sen kara toraenaosu ‘gekiga’: Saitō Takao o chūshin ni.” Nikkan manga kenkyū [Studies in Japanese manga and Korean manhwa]. Global Manga Studies, vol.3. Ed. Yamanaka Chie, Leem Hye Jeong, and Jaqueline Berndt. Kyoto: International Manga Research Center, 2013. 175-199. “Kouno Fumiyo’s Hiroshima Manga: A Style-Centered Attempt at Re-Reading”, Kritika Kultura vol.26, 2016, pp. 243–257. Her research topic is social role and critical potential of manga.