Associate Professor, Japanese Literature and Popular Culture Director of Japanese Studies Ph.D., 1994, Stanford office: 317 Friendly Hall phone: (541) 346-4016 email: stb@uoregon.edu website: Tokyo Cyberpunk

Teaches courses on Japanese film and popular culture. He is the author of Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture (Palgrave, 2010) and Theatricalities of Power: The Cultural Politics of Noh (Stanford, 2001), the editor of Cinema Anime (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and co-editor of Performing Japanese Women (2002), a special issue of the feminist journal Women & Performance. He is currently working on a study of J-Horror cinema.