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Susan J. Napier is a professor of Japanese literature and culture at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. She is also an anime critic and author of several books on anime and manga. She was born on 11 October 1955 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Napier earned her B.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University in 1977 and her Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from the University of Michigan in 1985. She has taught at Tufts since 1988. Napier is the author of several books on anime and manga, including Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle (2005), The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature (1996), and The Japanese Thriller: Genre, Gender, and National Cinema (2008). She has also written numerous articles on anime and manga, and has been a guest speaker at numerous anime conventions. Napier is married and has two children. She is an avid fan of anime and manga, and enjoys playing video games.

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Occupation Professor, anime critic
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 11 October 1955
Birthday 11 October
Birthplace Cambridge, MA
Nationality United States

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2005

Napier first became interested in anime and manga when a student showed her a copy of Akira. Napier then saw the film, which led to the creation of her third book, Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, which was revised in 2005. Napier's From Impressionism To Anime: Japan As Fantasy And Fan Cult In The Western Imagination was published in 2007, which discusses anime fandom in greater depth.

1991

In 1991 Napier published Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Her second book, The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity, followed in 1996.

1955

Susan Jolliffe Napier (born October 11, 1955) is a Professor of the Japanese Program at Tufts University. She was formerly the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. She also worked as a visiting professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, and in cinema and media studies at University of Pennsylvania. Napier is an anime and manga critic.