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Amanda Weiss is an Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she teaches courses on Japanese media and society. She is the director of graduate studies and the Japanese program, and she has a keen interest in East Asian media. Weiss is the founder and editor of 'Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction,' a magazine dedicated to science fiction and fantasy that focuses on language and culture. Her book, 'Han Heroes Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese Japanese War Cinema,' published by Hong Kong University Press in 2023, examines contemporary East Asian memory of World War II. She is also completing a textbook on learning Japanese through anime studies, alongside co-authors Aya McDaniel and Yuko Ogawa. Prior to her current position, Weiss held a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University's Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry and has conducted research at several notable institutions, including the University of Southern California, Beijing Film Academy on a Fulbright, University of Cambridge, and University of Tokyo.
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