Patrick W Galbraith Editor & Author

Patrick W. Galbraith has a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan and is currently pursuing a second Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, USA. He is the author of The Otaku Encyclopedia (2009), Tokyo Realtime: Akihabara (2010), Otaku Spaces (2012) and The Moe Manifesto (2014), as well as the co-editor of Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture (2012). Thiam Huat Kam is a Ph.D. candidate in Media Studies at Rutgers University, USA. Björn-Ole Kamm is a researcher and lecturer at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan.