Team

Joshua Paul Dale is the author of Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World (Profile Books, 2023), and is the editor and author of numerous books and articles on cuteness. He researches both the kawaii and cute aesthetics, and is also interested in the science behind our response to cute objects. Dale is a Professor of American Literature and Culture at Chuo University in Tokyo. Visit his website at: www.cutestudies.org.

専修大学准教授。東京大学大学院情報学環学際情報学府にて博士号取得後、米国デューク大学大学院文化人類学研究科にて博士号取得。専門は日本のポップカルチャー、特に萌え・オタク文化。単著に、Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan （2019）やThe Ethics of Affect: Lines and Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood (2021)、共著にIdols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture (2012)やDebating Otaku in Contemporary Japan (2016）などがある。

Erica Kanesaka is a writer and researcher who specializes in the racial and sexual politics of kawaii and cute cultures. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Emory University, where she teaches courses in Asian American literature and culture that focus on feminism, childhood, and popular culture. Her cute studies research has appeared in scholarly journals including the Journal of Asian American Studies, positions: asia critique, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She also regularly writes about cuteness for public audiences in forums such as Catapult and Public Books.

Dr. Megan Catherine Rose is a cultural sociologist and artist, specializing in visual cultures and creativity for wellbeing and inclusion. She focuses on subcultural art, design, media and technology in Japan and its intersections with care, queer cultures and neurodiversity. She is a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo Japan, and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at UNSW Sydney, Australia and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society.

ジョージア・トーマス・パーは、ユニバーシティ・カレッジ・ロンドンの映画とメディアの准講師です。彼女の研究対象には、日本に関連する少女時代とファムのサブカルチャーの世界的な表現、特に英国におけるメイドカフェの出現が含まれます。女性若者や日本映画に関する視聴覚エッセイも執筆している。