STAFF:

Administrator: Dru Pagliassotti

Contributing Editors:

Dru Pagliassotti
Mark McHarry

Contributing Writers:

to come

SCOPE:

This blog discusses yaoi, Japanese boys’ love, male/male romance and erotica, and gay romance and erotica in different genres and forms from a perspective of scholarly inquiry.

POLICIES:

Contributors may be published scholars, graduate students, mangaka, novelists, or publishers in this blog’s genres of interest. Posts must be of broad interest to the community and may not serve as advertising.

EDITOR BIOS:

Dru Pagliassotti is a professor of communication at California Lutheran University. With Kazumi Nagaike and Mark McHarry she is guest co-editing a themed issue on boys’ love of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Routledge). With Antonia Levi and Mark McHarry, she edited a collection of essays published in 2010, Boys’ Love Manga (McFarland). She has published research on BL manga in Intersections: Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific and Particip@tions: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. Dru also edits and writes fiction.

Photographer: Dan Tsang

Mark McHarry is an independent scholar. He has contributed to books, scholarly journals, and critical popular publications, including Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World (Libraries Unlimited); LGBT Identity and Online New Media (Routledge); Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film, and Television (Palgrave Macmillan); Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (Routledge); Transformative Works and Cultures; Intersections; Journal of Homosexuality; Z magazine; and Gay Community News (Boston). He has presented at the Modern Language Association, Popular Culture Association, Écritures du corps (Université Paris 13 Nord), Textual Echoes (Umeå Universitet, Sweden), and the First International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels (Universidad Alcalá de Henares).

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