REBECCA COPELAND is an Associate Professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
MELANIE CZARNECKI is a Lecturer in the faculty of foreign studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan
KELLY FOREMAN is a Lecturer in the departments of anthropology and music at Wayne State University, USA
SARAH FREDERICK is an Assistant Professor of Japanese literature at Boston University, USA
HIROKO HIRAKAWA is an Assistant Professor of Japanese and intercultural studies at Guilford College in North Carolina, USA
GRETCHEN JONES is an Assistant Professor of Japanese literature at the University of Maryland, USA
SHARON KINSELLA researches in the areas of men's comics, cuteness and infantilism, otaku, corporate culture and girls' culture in contemporary Japan
CHRISTINE MARRAN is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, USA
KATHERINE MEZUR is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, USA
MIRIAM SILVERBERG is Professor of History at University College Los Angeles, USA
NOBUE SUZUKI is Professor of Anthropology at Nagasaki Wesleyan University, Japan