Guest of Honor

AnimeFest 2017 - Thursday, August 17th - Sunday, August 20th, in the Dallas Arts District

Susan Napier

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Susan J. Napier is Professor of Japanese Studies at Tufts University. She received all her degrees from Harvard University and has been a visiting professor at Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and a visiting scholar at University of Sydney.

She specializes in Japanese literature, fantasy and animation and also in cross cultural fantasy and science fiction in film, art and literature. She is the author of numerous articles and four books, the two most recent of which, Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle, and From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West deal primarily with Japanese animation and its global audience.

She is currently finishing up a new book on the Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki entitled Miyazakiworld.

We are honored to welcome back Dr. Napier for her second time with us at AnimeFest.