About the Speaker:
Billy Tringali is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, and Founder and Academic Showrunner for the JASM@AX Academic Symposium at Anime Expo, the largest anime convention in North America . Billy is a Faculty Librarian at Indiana University Indianapolis, where he serves as liaison for First-Year Sciences, Undergraduate Research, and Health Sciences.
Billy is an alum of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, graduating with his Master of Library & Information Science in 2019.
About the Talk:
Join anime scholar and the founder of the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies for an exciting, hour-long lecture discussing the current state of the field of anime and manga studies.
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