Teaching Japanese Popular Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780924304781)

DEBORAH SHAMOON is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore, where she teaches courses in modern Japanese literature and popular culture. She is the author of Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls' Culture in Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2012), as well as several articles on manga, anime, and film. From 2006 to 2011 she was Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

CHRIS MCMORRAN is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. A cultural geographer by training, he teaches courses related to Japan's environment-society relations and political economy, as well as an annual field studies course in Kyushu. He has won multiple teaching awards and published research articles on heritage tourism, labor mobility, Japanese feminism, and fieldbased learning. He is currently writing a book based on a year of fieldwork conducted in a traditional Japanese inn, Last Resort: Labor, Tourism, and Identity in Japan.