ALISA FREEDMAN is a professor of Japanese literature, cultural studies, and gender at the University of Oregon. Her books include Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost (AAS Asia Shorts book series, 2021); Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road (2010); an annotated translation of Kawabata Yasunari's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (2005); a coedited volume on Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan (2013); and an edited textbook on Introducing Japanese Popular Culture (first edition in 2017, second edition in 2023). She served as the editor in chief of the US-Japan Women's Journal (2016-2022) and has published more than thirty-five articles and chapters for peer-reviewed journals and books, around twenty-five literary translations and co-translations, several guides to academic publishing, and numerous articles for general-interest publications. She is the Faculty Fellow of a university residence hall and has received a national award for her mentorship work. Alisa enjoys presenting at public events like cultural festivals, anime cons, and reading groups.

Alisa Freedman, ¿Introduction, or the Professional is Personal¿

Ellen P. Conant, ¿The Implausible Origins of Becoming an Art Historian¿

Joyce Lebra, ¿An Asian Affiliation¿

Marlene J. Mayo, ¿Against the Odds, Persisting¿

Barbara Ruch, ¿In Search of Flowers Yet Unseen¿

Margaret Lock, ¿On Becoming a Medical Anthropologist¿

Takako Lento, ¿Life on Two Tracks¿

Phyllis I. Lyons, ¿A Record of Puzzlement¿

Susan B. Hanley, ¿An Accidental Pioneer¿

Susan Matisoff, ¿Another Girl Studying Japanese!¿

Mary Elizabeth Berry, ¿Becoming a Historian¿

Patricia G. Steinhoff, ¿Serendipity and Sociology¿

Sumie Jones, ¿I Came, I Saw, I Stayed¿

Richard Smethurst, ¿Mae as a Professional Scholar¿

Amy V. Heinrich, ¿Margins¿

Sonja Arntzen, ¿The Presence of the Past in Life and Scholarship¿

Christine M.E. Guth, ¿Two Children¿and a PhD¿

Maureen Donovan, ¿Memories of Becoming a Japanese Studies Librarian¿

Janine Beichman, ¿The Open Gate¿

Phyllis Birnbaum, ¿Confessions of a Biographer¿

Merry White, ¿Backwards and in High Heels¿

Susan Pharr, ¿Night Train to Tokyö

Margaret McKean, ¿From Ch¿shingura to Commons¿

Kate Wildman Nakai, ¿Encounters¿

Anne Walthall, ¿I Owe My Career to Men¿

Anne E. Imamura, ¿Embracing the Unexpected and Weaving a Life¿

Juliet Winters Carpenter, ¿Translating in Japan¿

Eleanor Kerkham, ¿Still on the Way¿

Kristina Kade Troost, ¿Growing Up, or How I Learned to Be a Japanese Studies Librarian¿

Helen Hardacre, ¿With a Lot of Help from My Friends¿

Barbara Sato, ¿On Being an Outsider-Insider¿

Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, ¿Japanese Literature as a Refuge¿