Now on Twitter

As part of the ongoing effort to keep myself from losing momentum in my study, I now have a Twitter account. The pressure of having more places to keep updated will hopefully prompt me to keep working on things!

I can be found on Twitter as @leahmholmes.

The Introductory Post

Welcome to my academia blog! My name is Leah Holmes, and I'm a PhD student at Bath Spa University in the UK.

My fields of interest include:

- Anime and manga studies
- Japanese studies
- Cultural studies
- Fan studies
- Orientalism

My thesis topic is Orientalism among British anime fans and Auto-Orientalism in Japanese cultural industries.

The goal of this blog is to help me sustain my momentum in my reading and writing, and hopefully to engage in discussion with other fans and academics. I will be posting essays and reviews on a (hopefully) regular basis, as well as links to videos of my papers and presentations. My current plan is to dedicate one of the two days off I get per week to study, and then I will update with something that comes from that day's study once a week. This will probably be on Sundays as that's a shorter working day, and also marks the end of my working week.