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Jonathan M. Hall teaches courses in Japanese literature, media, film and aesthetics at California State University San Bernardino. His broad pedagogy includes Classical Japanese Literature, Cultures of the Floating World, women’s & minority literatures, and Japanese film, animation, & manga. Jonathan's published articles and book manuscript include writing on kabuki dance, Japanese postwar photography & performance, and twentieth-century Japanese film. Jonathan is also active as a film subtitler and as a contemporary performance dramaturge. Following graduate work that he pursued dually at the University of Tokyo and the University of California Santa Cruz, Jonathan has taught at the University of Chicago, the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo, the University of Leeds (UK), and several University of California campuses.