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John A Lent Author & Editor

Fusami Ogi is Professor in the Department of English at Chikushi Jogakuen University, Japan. She has been a leader of the Women’s MANGA Research Project in Asia since 2009.

Rebecca Suter is Associate Professor and Chair in the Japanese Studies Department at The University of Sydney, Australia. Her main research interests are in modern Japanese literature and popular culture, particularly manga.

Kazumi Nagaike is Professor at the Global Education and Intercultural Advancement Center (GAIA) at Oita University, Japan. She is author of Fantasies of Cross-dressing: Japanese Women Write Male-Male Erotica (2012).

John A. Lent pioneered in the study of mass communication and popular culture in Asia (since 1964) and Caribbean (since 1968), comic art and animation, and development communication. He has authored or edited eighty-two books. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Comic Art.