As of April, ****Matt Thorn (Matthew Allen Thorn)

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Education

M.Phil., Oct. 1994

Columbia University (Cultural Anthropology)

M.A., Jan. 1993

Columbia University (Cultural Anthropology)

M.A., Dec. 1989

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (East Asian Studies)

B.A., Dec. 1987

Pennsylvania State University (Creative Writing with a minor in Women’s Studies

High School, June 1983

Souderton Area High School, Souderton, Pennsylvania

Teaching ExperienceAssociate Professor, Faculty of Manga, Kyoto Seika University, April 2006 to present.Associate Professor, Department of Comic Art, School of Cartoon & Comic

Art, Faculty of Art, Kyoto Seika University, April 2000 to March 2006.Adjunct lecturer, Doshisha University, Apr. 2001 - July 2002.Adjunct lecturer, College of Humanities,,

Sept. 1997-March 2000. Adjunct lecturer, International Exchange Center, Konan University, Jan.-May

1999. Adjunct lecturer, Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies, Jan.-Apr.

1999. Instructor, Department of East Asian Languages, Hamilton College,

Aug. 1990-May 1991. Japanese language. Instructor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University

of Illinois, Aug.-Dec. 1989. “Japanese Hero Types.”General Audience PublicationsEssay, Moto Hagio and Me and Synchronicity, in Bungei Special Edition: Moto Hagio--The Grand Mother of the World of Sh jo Manga, Kawade Shobo Shinsha Publishing, 2010. (Japanese)Article: “Amerika megahitto manga jijou” (, “Overview:

Megahit Comics in the U.S.A KINO, April 2006. (Japanese)Article: “Japan: The Hollywood of Manga,” Japan Echo,

April 2006. (Note: The title was supposed to have been “Japan: The

Hollywood of Comics”. This is a translation by the staff of Japan

Echo of the Ronza article below.)Article: “Ch hen manga taikoku Nippon” ( “Japan:

The Hollywood of Comics”), Ronza, February 2006. (Japanese)Interview: The Moto Hagio Interview, The Comics Journal, July/August

2005. Article: The Magnificent Forty-Niners, The Comics Journal, July/August

2005. Afterword, Dream Tales of Ury d,pocket-size edition, vol. 5, by Akiko Hatsu, Hakusensha Publishing, 2005. (Japanese)Bimonthly column on popular culture for Shukan ST (magazine),

May 2004 to November 2005.Bimonthly column, “Gendai no kotoba” for Kyoto Shinbun (newspaper),

Aug. 2002 - June 2003. (Japanese)Monthly column, “Komikku hihyou” ( “Comics Review”)

for Dokushojin (, a weekly literary journal), Jan. 2002 - Jan. 2003. (Japanese)Afterword,, pocket-size edition, vol. 8, by Marimo Ragawa, Hakusensha Publishing, 2002. (Japanese)Afterword, Alexandrite, pocket-size edition, vol. 1, by Minako Narita, Hakusensha Publishing, 2000. (Japanese)Periodic column, “Girls’ Stuff” (a column about Japanese

girls’ comic books), for Animerica: Anime & Manga Monthly,

1993 to 1995.Translations of Japanese Comic Books

From 1990 till 1999, I translated Japanese comics more than 5000

pages for

(now Viz LLC). I have recently begun translating again. Titles of

comics I have translated include:, by Takako Shimura (2011 to present, Fantagraphics Books), by Moto Hagio (2010, Fantagraphics Books) (vol., first two chapters of vol. ), by Hisae Iwaoka (2010, Viz LLC)Red Blinds the Foolish, by est em (2009, Aurora Publishing) (translation superviser), by est em (2008, Aurora Publishing)Banana

Fish, (volumes,,, and

),

by Akimi Yoshida (1997-1999, Viz Comics). Dance

Till Tomorrow, vol. 1, by Naoki Yamamoto (1999, Viz Comics). Love

Song, by Keiko Nishi (1997, Viz Comics). Nausicaä

of the Valley of Wind, vols. 5, 6, &

in the original edition, vols.

&

in the “Perfect Collection” edition (1993-1994, Viz Comics). Four Shojo Stories, by Moto Hagio, Keiko Nishi, and Shio Sato

(1996, Viz Comics).,

9 vols.,

by Sho Fumimura and Ryoichi Ikegami (1994-1998, Viz Comics). Mermaid

Forest, Mermaid’s

Scar & Mermaid’s

Gaze, by Rumiko Takahashi (1995-1997, Viz Comics). A

- A’, by Moto Hagio (1997, Viz Comics). They Were Eleven, by Moto Hagio (1994-1995, Viz Comics). Promise, by Keiko Nishi (1994, Viz Comics). LUM: Urusei Yatsura, by Rumiko Takahashi (serialized in Animerica:

Anime & Manga Monthly, 1993, Viz Comics). The Age of the Flying Boat, by Hayao Miyazaki (serialized in

Animerica: Anime & Manga Monthly, June 1993 to Aug. 1993, Viz Comics). Maison

Ikkoku (vols.

& ),

by Rumiko Takahashi (1994-1995, Viz Comics). Ranma 1/2, by Rumiko Takahashi (1992-1994). Macross II, by Tsuguo Okazaki and Sukehiro Tomita (1992-1993, Viz Comics). Battle

Angel Alita, vol. 1 (1994, Viz Comics). Crying Freeman (Part 5), by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami

(monthly, Nov. 1992 to Sept. 1993). AD

Police, by Tony Takezaki (1994). Silent

Mobius (vol. 1), by Kia Asamiya (1995). The Supergal, by Rumiko Takahashi (short story published in

Animerica: Anime & Manga Monthly, Nov. 1992). Striker:

The Armored Warrior, by Hiroshi Takashige and Ryoji Minagawa (1998). Midnight Eye, by Buichi Terasawa (monthly, Sept. 1991 to Feb.

1992). Saber Tiger, by Yukinobu Hoshino (May 1991). The Professional: Golgo 13, by Takao Saitoh (monthly, Apr.

1991 to June 1991). Hotel Harbor View, by Natsuo Sekikawa and Jiroh Taniguchi (Dec.

1990). GUNHED, by Kia Asamiya (bimonthly, Nov. 1990 to Mar. 1991). 2001

Nights, 3 vols.,

by Yukinobu Hoshino (1996). HOROBI, by Yoshihisa Tagami (monthly, Aug. 1990 to June 1991)., vol. 1, chapter 1, by Sanpei Shirato (1999).Other Translations (from Japanese to English, except where noted)Text for a book of computer-generated stereoscopic images, Stereogram,

for Cadence Books, 1994. Subtitles for an animated film, Project

A-ko, for U.S. Manga Corps, a division of Central Park Media, New

York. Script by John Vincent Curtis of Interactive Simulation for a “virtual

reality” amusement

park attraction, “Terabyss: A Rockers Underwater Adventure,” featured

at Marine Park on Rokko Island, Kobe, Japan (from English to Japanese). Text for a book of photographs by Mitsuaki Iwago, Nature Calls,

for Cadence Books, 1993. Text for a book of photographs by Nishi F. Saimaru, John, Yoko and

Sean: A Family Album, for Cadence Books. Text for a book of photographs by Kenji Ishikawa, Moonlight Blue,

for Cadence Books. Text for a book of photographs by Junichi Shimomura, Art Nouveau Architecture:

Residential Masterpieces 1893-1911, for Cadence Books, 1993. Conference Papers/Symposium Presentations The Multi-Faceted Universe of Sh jo Manga, presented at Le manga, 60

ans apr s..., Maison de la culture du Japon Paris, Paris, France, March

15, 2008. “Commercialization and the Loss of Innocence: Children's Manga from the

1920s to the Present,” presented at “Comics and Childhood: The 4th Annual University

of Florida Conference on Comics,” February 24, 2006.“The Fate of Girls’ Manga in the Digital Age,” presented at symposium,

“Marauding Rabbits, Starry-Eyed Girls, Battling Boys, ‘Ordinary

Ladies’: Japanese (American) Manga in Review,” Pomona College, California,

February 17, 2006.“The Terms of Endearment: Japanese Girls’ Comics in America,” presented

at symposium, “Gurôbaru jidaino nichibei bunka kôryû: shinnichi/kennichi-shinbei/kenbei

no dainamikkusu” (U.S.-Japan Cultural Exchange in the Global Age: The Dynamics

of Pro-/Anti-Japan and Pro-/Anti-America Sentiment,” Doshisha University,

Kyoto, Japan, July 9, 2005.“Manga no hon’yaku ga urenai wake” (“Why Translated Comics

Don’t Sell”), presented at symposium, “Gakujutsuteki manga kenkyuu

no kanousei to kadai” (“Possibilities for and Issues in the Scholarly

Study of Comics”), Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, June 2000.“Girls and Women Getting Out of

Hand: The Pleasure and Politics of Japan’s Amateur Comics Community,”

presented at the American Anthroplogical Association meetings in Washington,

D.C., Nov. 22, 1997. “What Japanese Girls Do with Manga,

and Why,” presented at the Japan Anthropology Workshop (“JAWS”)

at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Jul. 10, 1997. “Unlikely Explorers:

Alternative Narratives of Love, Sex, Gender, and Friendship in Japanese ’Girls’’

Comics,” presented at the New York Conference on Asian Studies in

New Paltz, Oct. 16, 1993. “Future Cars, Past and Present: Driving to the Promised Land,”

presented at the Central States Anthropological Society meetings in Cincinnati,

Mar. 31, 1990. “Adolescent Liminality in the Manga of HAGIO Moto,” presented

at the Seventh Annual Association of Teachers of Japanese Seminar in Washington,

D.C., Mar. 16, 1989.Scholarly PublicationsBook chapter, “Girls and Women Getting Out of Hand: The Pleasure and

Politics of Japan’s Amateur Comics Community” in Fanning the Flames:

Fandoms and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan.William W. Kelly,

ed. New York: SUNY Press, 2004.Book chapter, “Amerika ni okeru eiyaku manga” (“Translated Manga in America”)

in Manga no shakaigaku. MIYAHARA Kohjiroh and OGINO Masahiro,

eds. Kyoto, Sekai Shisôsha, 2001.Journal article, “Shoujo Manga: Something for Girls,” Japan

Quarterly,

July-September 2001: 43-50.Journal article, “Shoujo

manga no bungakusei tte, are no koto?” (When You Say the Literariness

of Girls’ Comics, Do You Mean Kino Hyouron (Kino Review), Extra Issue,

Oct. 1998. (Japanese) ReviewReview of Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad,

and Sexy (John Lent, ed., Bowling Green, Oh.: Popular Press, 1999)

in The Journal of Asian Studies; Ann Arbor; Nov 1999.Research ExperienceAugust 2003-August 2004, Research on mutual images of Japanese and Americans

as reflected in popular culture, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies,

Harvard University.July 1994-August 1995, Doctoral research on the place of comic books in

the lives of adolescent Japanese girls, Japan. Funded by the Japan Foundation. July-Aug. 1993, Preliminary doctoral research on the place of comic books

in the lives of adolescent Japanese girls, Kobe, Japan. Funded by the Sheldon

Scheps Summer Research Grant. Aug. 1989Research on Japanese girls’ comic books, Kobe, Japan. Yielded

a conference presentation, “Unlikely Explorers: Sexual Ambiguity in

Japanese Girls’ Comic Books” (see below). Dec.-July 1988, Research on Japanese comic book culture, Kobe, Japan. Yielded

a conference presentation, “Adolescent Liminality in Japanese Manga” (see

below).

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