Books Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Japanese Animation (New York: Palgrave, 2005) The Subversion of Modernity: the Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature (London: Routledge, 1996) Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Works of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo (Cambridge: Harvard University East Asia Series, 1991) Recent Articles "Meet Me on the Other Side: Strategies of Otherness in Modern Japanese Fiction" in Japan and Its Others, ed. Mark Williams (London: Routledge, 2006) "When Godzilla Speaks" in Godzillas Footsteps, ed. William Tsutsui (New York: Palgrave, 2006) "Matter Out of Place: Carnival and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki Hayaoj's Spritied Away" Journal of Japanese Studies, Winter, 2006