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Lori Morimoto

Assistant Professor, General Faculty
Office Address/Hours
Wilson Hall 129
Tuesday/Thursday, 11:00am - 1:00pm and by zoom appointment.
Class Schedule

MDST 3504: Japanese Cinema in a Global Context - Wednesday, 5:00pm - 7:30pm

MDST 4510: Fandom and Identity - Thursday, 2:00pm - 4:30pm

MDST 5559: Media Fan Studies - Tuesday, 2:00pm - 4:30pm

Biography

Lori Morimoto researches transnational/transcultural fandoms and transnational media co-production and distribution. Her work has been published in East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Transformative Works and Cultures, Participations, Asian Cinema, and Mechademia: Second Arc. She has also contributed to Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (NYU Press, 2017), The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (Routledge, 2018), A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), and Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics (Iowa, 2021). She teaches courses in media fandom, East Asian film and media, television, and videographic criticism.