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Samurai Shodown

Gender and Race in Street Fighter II and Samurai Shodown: Presentation at Mechademia

September 14, 2016 Announcement, Conference

I am continuing my journey down the rabbit hole of Japanese arcade fighting games with a presentation at Mechademia: Conference on Asian Popular Cultures at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The program is forthcoming, but I will be presenting “Fighting Stereotypes: Reimagining Gender and Race in Street Fighter II (1991) and Samurai Shodown…

Ainu and Video Games: Presentation at Console-ing Passions

May 28, 2016 Announcement, Conference, Research

This paper is a bit of a “break” from my recent research on visual and material culture in the late Meiji period. I will be chairing a panel at Console-ing Passions (International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism) on Japanese visual culture, with papers presented by Colleen Laird from Bates College (“Screened and Not…