Selected bibliography of publications and conference presentations

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"Transnational fandom in translation: manga readers and anime viewers outside of Japan." April 15, 2017 at Popular Culture Association of America, San Diego, CA.

"Transnational spreadable media culture: manga readers and anime viewers outside of Japan." July 23, 2016 at Comic Arts Conference, San Diego, CA.

"Transnational convergence culture: grassroots and corporate convergence in the conflict over amateur English-translated manga," Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics,  Vol. 6, No. 4, Oct 2015. [DOI:10.1080/21504857.2015.1060617]

"Transnational audience reception: manga readers and anime viewers outside of Japan." July 11, 2015 at Comic Arts Conference, San Diego, CA.  

"Post-mortem Elvis: From Cultural Icon to Transproperty," [co-authored with Dann Downes]. In Death and the Rock Star (peer reviewed). Catherine Strong and Barbara Lebrun Eds. UK: Ashgate [Popular and Folk Music series]. 2015 pp149-161.

"Holy Transmedia, Batman! The impact of 21st century intellectual property rights on cultural production in Japan and America." Co-presented with Dann Downes, April 1, 2015 at Popular Culture Association of America, New Orleans, LA.

"Popular culture in translation: manga readers and anime viewers outside of Japan," May 23, 2014 at Oceanic Popular Culture Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.

"Globalization and Popular Culture: Surveying manga readers and anime viewers outside of Japan." Presented July 20, 2013 at The Comic Arts Conference, San Diego, CA.

"Sympathy for the Circus: The Rolling Stones, Documentary Film, and the Construction of Authenticity." [co-authored with Dann Downes]  In The Rolling Stones - Sociological Perspectives (peer reviewed). Helmut Staubmann Ed.  USA: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Books. June 2013 pp81-106.

"Trans-cultural conviviality, conflict and transition: reader responses to the crackdown on manga scanlation by American licensees and Japanese publishers." May 25, 2013 at Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, Osaka, Japan.

"Transnational Transformations: A Gender Analysis of Japanese Manga Featuring Unexpected bodily Transformations," The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2012 pp789-806.

"Women as Readers." In Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: History, Theme, and Technique.  Bart Beaty and Stephen Weiner, Eds. USA: Salem Press. October 2012.

"Tales of the Beanworld." in  Critical survey of graphic novels : independents and underground classics Vol 3. Bart Beaty and Stephen Weiner, Eds. USA: Salem Press. May 2012 pp798-801.

"Scanlation Aggravation:  transnational corporate convergence and grassroots divergence in the case of the crackdown on amateur English-translated manga." Presented July, 14, 2012 at The Comic Arts Conference, San Diego, CA.

"Transnational Convergence Culture: grassroots and corporate convergence in the conflict over amateur English-translated manga." Presented March 16, 2012 at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario

"The Mouse is Dead, Long Live the Ogre: Shrek and the Boundaries of Transgression," [co-authored with Dann Downes]  in Investigating Shrek: Power, Identity and Ideology (peer reviewed). Tim Nieguth, Aurelie Lacassagne and François Dépelteau, Eds. Canada: Palgrave McMillan. September 2011 pp75-85.  

"Frontiers of Fandom: A comparative analysis of membership survey data from two Wordcons that have taken place outside of the USA." Presented August 20, 2011 at Speculative Frontiers: Reading, Seeing, Being, Going, Reno, Nevada. 

"Surveying Worldcon: Analysis of an online survey of attending members of Anticipation/Worldcon 2009." Presented September 6, 2010 at Academic Conference of the World Science Fiction Convention 2010, Melbourne, Australia.

"Girly Girls and Pretty Boys: gender and audience reception of English-translated manga," December  2010. Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed), Queen City Comics: Astonishing Tales in Academia [http://ourspace.uregina.ca/handle/10294/3092]

"Reading Manga: Creating Meaning out of Transnational Popular Culture," presented April 2, 2010 at the Comic Arts Conference 2010, San Francisco, CA.

Situations of Viewing: Class, Gender and the Everyday Practices and Processes of Watching Television. (2010) VDM Verlag:USA (on demand).