Lori Morimoto

Lori Morimoto

  • Asian Studies - Kyoto

    Assistant Professor

    Programs
    • Undergraduate

Areas of Expertise

Transcultural Media Fandom, East Asian Film and Popular Culture, Transnational Film Co-Production, Adaptation

Representative Publications

“This is my (floral) design: Flower Crowns, Fannibals, and Fan/Producer Permeability” (with E.J. Nielsen). Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (University of Michigan Press, 2023). 163-175.

“Transcultural Fan Studies as Methodology.” A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics. University of Iowa Press, 2021). 51-64.

“(Trans)Cultural Legibility and Online Yuri!!! on Ice Fandom.” Mechademia Second Arc 2 (2020): 136-159.

“Hannibal: Adaptation and Authorship in the Age of Fan Production.” Becoming: Genre, Queerness, and Transformation in NBC’s Hannibal (Syracuse University Press, 2019)” 258-282.

“The ‘Totoro Meme’ and the Politics of Transfandom Pleasure.” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 4.1 (2018): 77-92.

“From Imagined Communities to Contact Zones: American Monoculture in Transatlantic Fandom.” Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs, and Fans (Oxford University Press, 2018). 273-290.

“Sherlock (Holmes) in Japanese (Fan) Works.” Transformative Works and Cultures 23 (2017): online.

“Transnational Media Fan Studies.” The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (Routledge, 2017): 280-288.

“Reimagining the Imagined Community: Online Fandoms in the Age of Global Convergence” (with Bertha Chin). Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, Second Edition (New York University Press, 2017). 174-188.

“Towards a Theory of Transcultural Fandom” (with Bertha Chin). Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies 10.1 (2013): 92-108.

Education

BA, English Literature, Kenyon College
MA, Japanese Literature, The Ohio State University
MA, Communication and Culture, Indiana University
PhD, Communication and Culture, Indiana University

Previous Appointments

2021-25 Assistant Professor General Faculty, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia
2019-2021 Instructor, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia

Professional Associations

Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Association for Asian Studies