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Amanda Weiss is an Associate Professor of Japanese at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she teaches courses on Japanese media and society. She is the editor and founder of 'Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction', a science fiction and fantasy magazine that focuses on language and culture. Weiss leads the Vertically Integrated Project on East Asian Media, which includes student projects on archival work, translation, photography, and media analysis. Her recent book, 'Han Heroes Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese Japanese War Cinema' (Hong Kong University Press, 2023), investigates contemporary East Asian remembrance of WWII. She is also completing a textbook on learning Japanese through anime studies with co-authors Aya McDaniel and Yuko Ogawa. Prior to her current position, she taught at Earlham College and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Emory University's Bill Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Her research experience includes time at the University of Southern California, Beijing Film Academy (Fulbright), the University of Cambridge, and the University of Tokyo.
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