Guest Lectures
I’ve been absolutely drowning in work lately as I try to meet PhD writing deadlines while teaching and getting things ready for the Revise conference as well, so forgive my […]
Category Archives: anime
New law could block access to anime, manga and slash fan sites in Australia
[NB: What follows is an alert for all slash / yaoi / boy’s love / anime / manga / gaming fans about new legislation that could potentially make large parts […]
Hello to any coming from AN07
I’m not sure if I mentioned this to all the people I gave this address out to, but after my original plan to use this blog as a discussion place […]
Cosplay and Yaoi in the NY Times
Read here.
Simpsonzu
Vancouver artist gets internet famous for her design of The Simpsons in an anime style, and ends up with a job offer from Matt Groening to draw the next issue […]
"Convention of Fools: The Bakhtinian Carnival and the Anime Fan Community"
Adapted version presented at the Popular Culture Associational National Conference, 2006. Boston, MA. In Rabelais and His World, literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1984) outlined the Venetian Carnival as a shared […]
The appeal of Yaoi/Slash Part 1: Gay or straight?
This is a topic both near-and-dear to my heart, and one that I think deserves a close inspection, so I shall be treating it in great detail. Yaoi, an acronym […]
Con no Baka
I’m planning to host a panel at the upcoming Toronto anime convention Con no Baka regarding the anthropology of fandom, where I’ll be asking other fan’s opinions and thoughts. If […]
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