Jonathan E. Abel

Jonathan E. Abel is professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at The Pennsylvania State University. He is a scholar of Japanese media, film, and literature with interests in global modernism, literary reception, translation studies, film studies, new media, and literary and cultural theory. He is author of Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan and The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji, coeditor of Information: Keywords, and co-translator of Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals by Azuma Hiroki and Nation and Aesthetics: On Kant and Freud by Karatani Kōjin.