Chris Smith
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Chris Smith
@cssmit.bsky.social
Assistant professor of modern Japanese literature at the University of Florida. I also research/teach about manga and anime.
Conferences: Book your room now! They will sell out!

Also Conferences: We're not going to tell you which day your panel will be on for another 3 months lol
October 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Happy to announce I've got an article in the latest Journal of Japanese studies! "Sharks and Revolutionary Girls: The “Imperial Us” in Kaneko Mitsuharu’s “Same” and Ikuhara Kunihiko’s Shōjo kakumei Utena"

online.ucpress.edu/jjs/article-...
Sharks and Revolutionary Girls: The “Imperial Us” in Kaneko Mitsuharu’s “Same” and Ikuhara Kunihiko’s Shōjo kakumei Utena
Japan’s empire was idealized as an exercise in cooperativism, multi-ethnic harmony, pan-Asianism, and, most crucially, liberation. Liberation by kindly Japanese benefactors and genial cooperation betw...
https://online.ucpress.edu/jjs/article-abstract/51/1/109/205903/Sharks-and-Revolutionary-GirlsThe-Imperial-Us-in"
February 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
My book, Samurai With Telephones, is now officially out! And look, it's even open access! But if you want to buy a copy, you can use the code UMF24 for 30% off.

press.umich.edu/Books/S/Samu...
July 12, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Alright, I guess I'm on this platform now!
October 2, 2023 at 8:30 PM