Steven Brown Teaches courses on Japanese film and popular culture in relation to their national and transnational contexts of production and reception. 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 has published articles in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Mechademia, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, and New Nietzsche Studies. He is currently working on a study of sound design in J-Horror cinema.