Mechademia: Second Arc
A groundbreaking exploration of anime, manga, and Japanese popular culture
Mechademia: Second Arc
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Journal Information
- ISSN: 1934-2489
- eISSN: 2152-6648
- Frequency: Twice per year
Description
Mechademia: Second Arc is a biannual journal series designed to promote academic and professional discourse around East Asian popular cultures. Its scope includes professional and fan-created works influenced by the forms of anime, Japanese manga/Korean manhwa/Chinese manhua, cinema, television dramas, digital media, video gaming, music, performance arts, and many other forms of popular culture that have proliferated in East Asia and throughout the world. This journal promotes high-quality academic research on anime, manga, and related pop cultural fields, in making key articles by East Asian authors accessible to English-speaking readers through original translations, and in promoting cultural exchange between artists, authors, fans, and scholars from various contexts, both through the journal and through related conferences held annually in the United States and biennially in Asia. Submissions to the series are required to be written in “open” language rather than adopting the exclusive language of academic discourse, but without detracting from a high level of inquiry.
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Editorial Information
Editors-in-Chief
Sandra Annett
Frenchy Lunning
Submission Editor, Web Manager
Andrea Horbinski
Digital and Technology
Cailey Birchem
Michael Lee
Andy Scott
Associate Editors
Baryon Tensor Posadas
Deborah Shamoon
Marc Steinberg
Stevie Suan
Shige “CJ” Suzuki
Review Editors
Forrest Greenwood
Brian White
Editorial Board
Brent Allison
William Ashbaugh
Jacqueline Berndt
Brian Berstrom
Yukari Fujimoto
Isaac Gagné
Wendy Goldberg
Pamela Gossin
Marc Hairston
Edmund Hoff
Toni Johnson-Woods
Mary Knighton
John A. Lent
Jinying Li
Laura Miller
Kazumi Nagaike
Brian Ruh
Christina Spiker
Damon Stanek
Marc Steinberg
Thalia Sutton
James Welker
Sookyung Yoo
Translation Editors
Brian Bergstrom
Sachiko Dorsey
Brett Hack
Kendall Heitzman
Keiko Nishimura
Shige “CJ” Suzuki
Submission Info
Submission Guidelines
Mechademia: Second Arc publishes two CFPs every year. Most issues are themed around a specific topic under the supervision of a guest editor. For information on current and future issues and CFPs, as well as full submission guidelines, please visit the Second Arc page on the Mechademia website.
Essays (between 5,000 and 6,000 words) should be prepared using Chicago Manual of Style endnotes. Submissions and editorial queries should be sent to submissions@mechademia.net.
Books for review should be mailed to
Forrest Greenwood
Indiana University Innovation Center
2719 E 10th St
Bloomington, IN 47408
Brian White
#101 Etosu 02, 26-14
Edogawa-ku, Shinozaki-machi, 4-chrome
Tokyo
Japan
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