Academic Appointments

2021-Present

Assistant Professor General Faculty, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia

2019-2021

Lecturer, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia

2015-2016

Lecturer, INTO Mason, George Mason University

2012-2015

Assistant Professor Adjunct, Northern Virginia Community College

Education

2011

PhD Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

2000

MA Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

1991

MA East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

1988

BA English Literature, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Publications

Books

Morimoto, L.

What We See Everyday: Japanese Women and Hong Kong Stars, 1973-2003 [proposal stage]

Morimoto, L.

Media Fandom [proposal stage]

Edited Journal Issues

2022

Geraghty, L., Chin, B., Jones, B., Morimoto, L. “The Past, Present, and Future of Fan Fiction.” Special Issue. Humanities

2018

Morimoto, L. & Stein, L.E. “Tumblr and Fandom.” Special Issue. Transformative Works and Cultures 27.

2015

Morimoto, L.H. & Chin, B. “Transcultural Fandom.” Special Section. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies 12.2.

Journal Articles (*=refereed)

2020

Morimoto, L. “(Trans)Cultural Legibility and Online Yuri!!! on Ice Fandom.” Mechademia Second Arc 2: 136-159.*

2019

Morimoto, L. “Physical Disability in/and Transcultural Fandom: Conversations with My Spouse.” The Journal of Fandom Studies 7.1: 73-78.

2018

Morimoto, L. “The ‘Totoro Meme’ and the Politics of Transfandom Pleasure.” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 4.1: 77-92.*

2017

Creekmur, C., Kohnen, M.E.S., Morimoto, L., McIntosh, J., Morrisey, K., Scott, S., Stein, L. “Roundtable on Videographic Criticism, Vidding, and Remix.” Cinema Journal 56.4: 159-184.

2017

Morimoto, L. “Sherlock (Holmes) in Japanese (Fan) Works.” Transformative Works and Cultures 23.

2013

2013

Chin, B. & Morimoto, L. “Towards a Theory of Transcultural Fandom.” Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies 10.1: 92-108.*

2004

Hitchcock, L. “Third Culture Kids: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Language and Multiculturalism in Swallowtail Butterfly.” Scope: An On-Line Journal of Film Studies. February.*

2002

Book Chapters

2023

Nielsen, E.J. & Morimoto, L. “This is my (floral) design: Flower Crowns, Fannibals, and Fan/Producer Permeability.” Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity. Affuso, E. & Scott, S. eds. University of Michigan Press.

2021

Morimoto, L. “Transcultural Fan Studies as Methodology.” Fan Studies: A Primer. Booth, P. & Williams, R., eds. University of Iowa Press.

2020

Morimoto, L., Klink, F., Pande, R., Hutton, Z. “The Culture of Fandom on Tumblr: A Roundtable Discussion.” A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures. McCracken, A., Cho, A., Stein, L., Hoch, I.N., eds. University of Michigan Press.

2019

Morimoto, L. “Hannibal: Adaptation in the Age of Fan Production.” Becoming: Genre, Transformation, and Queerness in NBC’s Hannibal. Finn, K.M. & Nielsen, E.J., eds. Syracuse University Press.

2018

Morimoto, L.H. “From Imagined Communities to Contact Zones: American Monoculture in Transatlantic Fandom.” Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs, and Fans. Hilmes, M., Hills, M., Pearson, R., eds. Oxford University Press.

2018

Morimoto, L. “Ontological Security and the Politics of Transcultural Fandom.” A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies. Booth, P., ed. Wiley-Blackwell.

2017

Morimoto, L. “Transnational Media Fan Studies.” The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. Click, M.A. & Scott, S., eds. Routledge.

2017

Morimoto, L.H. & Chin, B. “Reimagining the Imagined Community: Online Fandoms in the Age of Global Convergence.” Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, Second Edition. Gray, J., Sandvoss, C., Harrington, C.L., eds. New York University Press.

2016

Morimoto, L.H. “The Good Fandom: Depicting Japanese Female Fans in Moonlight ExpressMoumantai, and Hong Kong Star Fans.” Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture. Bennett, L. & Booth, P., eds. Bloomsbury.

Other Writing

2021

Morimoto, L. “Alternative Pedagogies at Fan Studies Network North America 2020.” Transformative Works and Cultures 35.

2021

Morimoto, L., Booth, P., Garner, R., Kohnen, M.E.S., Jones, B., Nielsen, E.J., Noppe, N., Stein, L., Williams, R. “Transcultural Fan Studies in Practice: A Conversation.” Transformative Works and Cultures 35.

2021

Chin, B., Morimoto, L., Pande, R. “Global Fandom Conversations (Round One).” Confessions of an Aca-Fan blog.

2021

Morimoto, L. “Global Fandom: Lori Morimoto.” Confessions of an Aca-Fan blog.

2018

Morimoto, L. & Shrestova, S. “The State of Fandom Studies 2018.” Confessions of an Aca-Fan blog.

2015

Morimoto, L. “Fangirls in the Crosshairs.” The Outtake.

2014

Morimoto, L. “Yukata!Batch Goes Global.” On/Off Screen blog.

2013

Morimoto, L. “Sherlock Goes to Tokyo.” On/Off Screen blog.

Videographic Criticism

2017

Morimoto, L. “Leslie Cheung: Blamefully Beautiful.” VCinema/DC Chinese Film Festival.

2017

Morimoto, L. “hannibal: a fanvid.” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 3.4.*

2016

Morimoto, L. "Empathy for the Devil: Revisioning the Monster Through Gothic Romance." Reimagining the Gothic Conference

Presentations and Speaking

Invited Presentations

Keynote Speaker

"Beyond Hallyu: South Korea in the Transnational Media Marketplace." Towards equality, diversity and sustainability in streaming: Korean media in the UK and British media in Korea. Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies/Shanghai International Studies University, London, UK. Feb 2023.

Speaker

“Transcultural Cosplay: The Evolution of Costume Play.” JICC, Embassy of Japan. Oct 2022.

Lecture Series

Master Lecture Series in Fan Studies, Ateneo de Manila University, remote. Feb-May 2022.

Keynote Speaker

“What a Difference a Name Makes.” Fan Studies Network Conference, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK. 2019.

Speaker

“Anime in America: From Analog to Digital.” Fandemicon, remote. Aug 2021.

Speaker

Yuri!!! on Ice in/and the Fandom Contact Zone.” Fujocon, remote. Jun 2021.

Panelist

“Transcending Realms: The Fan Culture Experience.” Project Insight, remote. Aug 2020.

Panelist

“Fan Fiction: The Lit that Asks What If?” 1455 Summer Literary Festival, remote. Jul 2020.

Speaker

“Masterclass: Fandom and Audience Methodologies.” Research School for Media Studies, HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands. Jul 2019.

Speaker

“It was … intimate: Hannibal and the Gendered Politics of Identification in Quality TV.” McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Nov 2018.

Plenarist

“Praxis in Practice.” Flow Conference, University of Texas, Austin, TX. Sep 2018.

Participant

“Pleasure and Politics.” The Transformative Civics of Fandom, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Feb 2018.

Speaker

“Transcultural Fandom.” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Mar 2015.

Conference Organization

Co-Organizer

“Intersections: Fan Studies in Conversation in Japan.” Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. Dec 2018.

Panel Organizer

“Intersections: Japanese Media Fan Cultures Through a Fan Studies Lens.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Toronto, Canada. Mar 2018.

Co-Organizer

Fan Studies Network North America Conference. DePaul University, Chicago, IL and remote. 2017-2022.

Panel Organizer

“Through a Magnifying Lens: Sherlock Fandom in Global Context.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada. Mar 2015.

Panel Organizer

“Fan Studies’ (Transcultural) Futures.” Fan Studies Network Conference, Regents University London, London, UK. Sep 2014.

Conference Participation

Respondent

"Pikachu's Transmedia Adventures: The Industrial, Experiential, and Fan Practices of an Enduring Transcultural Phenomenon," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, Colorado. Mar 2023.

Panel Chair

“Critical Approaches to Transnational Film Studies.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, remote. Mar 2022.

Workshop Panelist

“Franchising Transmedia Series: Interconnected Products, Networked Places, People.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, remote. Mar 2021.

Presenter

“Third Culture Subjectivity in Acafandom.” Fan Studies Network North America Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL. Oct 2018.

Presenter

“Yuri!!! on (Thin) Ice: Convergence and Conflict in Transcultural Fandom.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada. Mar 2018.

Presenter

“First Principles: Hannibal, Affective Economy, and Oppositionality in Fan Studies.” Fan Studies Network Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK. Jun 2017.

Respondent

“Chinese Queer Fan Cultures in the Twenty-First Century: Queering Heterosexuality, Geopolitics, and Transcultural Imaginations.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL. Mar 2017.

Presenter

“Outrageous Sirk-umstances: Hannibal and the Aesthetics of Excess.” Feasting on Hannibal Conference, University of Melbourne, remote. Nov 2016.

Presenter

“The Fan-shufu: Hong Kong Star Fans in/and the Home.” Communicating with Cool Japan ICA Preconference, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Jun 2016.

Presenter

Sherlock and Global Transfandom.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA. Mar 2016.

Workshop Panelist

“Towards a Transnational Fan Studies.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, GA. Mar 2016.

Presenter

“Setting the Stage: The Origins of Modern Foreign ‘Boy Booms’ in Japan.” Fan Studies Network Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Jun 2015.

Presenter

Sherlock and the British Actor Boom: ‘Regifting’ Female Fandom in Japan.” Console-ing Passions, Dublin, Ireland. Jun 2015.

Presenter

“Rationalized Passions: Sherlock and Nation-Branded Boy Booms in Japan.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada. Mar 2015.

Presenter

“Transcultural Fandom In/As Contact Zone.” Fan Studies Network Conference, Regents University London, London, UK. Sep 2014.

Presenter

“Video Killed the Martial Arts Star: Distribution Technologies and the Vagaries of Jackie Chan Fandom in Japan.” Cult Cinema and Technological Change Conference, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. Apr 2014.

Presenter

“Yukata!Batch Goes Global: Japanese Entertainment Booms in the Age of Social Media.” Southwest PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Feb 2014.

Presenter

“The Loquacious Geisha: Lotus Blossom and the Hidden Transcript of Teahouse of the August Moon.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston, MA. Mar 2012.

Discussant

“Women in East Asian Film.” Association for Asian Studies Conference, Honolulu, HI. Apr 2011.

Presenter

“The Trans-cult-ural Geographies of Hong Kong Film Fandom in Japan.” Asian Cinema Studies Conference, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Mar 2012.

Presenter

“Wings of Desire: Hiroko Shinohara and the Making of ‘Fashionable’ Hong Kong Cinema.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA. Mar 2011.

Presenter

“Digital Fandom and the Making of Trans/Cultural Geographies.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Mar 2008.

Presenter

“Your Place or Mine? Transnational Okkake and Global Media Fandom.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada. Mar 2006.

Presenter

“Hong Kong Cinema and its Japanese Female Fans – A Comparative Study of Film Spectatorship Practices.” Association for Asian Studies Conference, San Diego, CA. Mar 2004.

Presenter

“Seeing Stars: Japanese Women Watching Leslie Cheung.” Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. Jun 2002.

Media

Sep 2022

Quoted in Mariam Elba, “‘Into the New World’: K-pop Fandom, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in the Global South,” in Hallyu!: The Korean Wave – official exhibition book (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Jun 2022

Quoted in Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Apr 2022

Podcast guest, “Feasting on Hannibal 2: Season Two,…And Now the Podcast Starts

Feb 2022

Interviewed and quoted, Dan Orlowitz, “Meet the ‘fanyus,’ the passionate yet chaotic force behind Yuzuru Hanyu,” The Japan Times

Dec 2021

Podcast guest, “Scandal in C-Ent: Contextualizing the Zhang Zhehan Scandal,” The Three-Patch Podcast

Oct 2021

Research referenced, “Parasocialism and Industry Amnesia in K-Pop Fandom,” Wear Your Voice Magazine

Oct 2021

Interviewed and quoted, Abby Kirby, “FSN-NA: Interview with Paul Booth, Lori Morimoto, and Lesley Willard,” The Daily Fandom

Sep 2021

Interviewed and quoted, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Tucker Carlson Makes a Play for the Barbz,” The Atlantic

May 2021

Mar 2021

Podcast guest, “Feasting on Hannibal 1: Season One,” …And Now the Podcast Starts

Feb 2021

Podcast guest, “Wild and Weird Stuff,” Aca-Media Podcast

Feb 2021

Interviewed and quoted, Aja Romano, “The internet’s most beloved fanfiction site is undergoing a reckoning,” Vox

Nov 2020

Podcast guest, “Transcultural Fandom Roundtable,” The Three Patch Podcast

Oct 2020

Interviewed and profiled, Anne Ganzert, “Lori Morimoto im Interview mit Anne Ganzert: A Fanstudies Soup – Or it’s complicated,”  AugenBlick 78/79

Jun 2020

Research referenced, Khursten Santos, “When Asian Fans Socially Distance because of Cultural Tensions in Fandom,” Fujojocast podcast

Jun 2020

Research referenced, Aisling Kelliher, Culture File, RTÉ Radio Ireland

Dec 2019

Interviewed and quoted, Ana Cabral Martins, “Como falar (e não falar) da cultura de fãs, especialmente de Star Wars?” Ípsilon

Sep 2018

Podcast guest, “Be Good to Each Other,” Aca-Media Podcast

Aug 2018

Research referenced, Jo Livingstone, “The Irreverent Joys of a Japanese Sherlock Holmes,” The New Republic

Apr 2018

Podcast guest, “Lori Morimoto,” Fansplaining

Nov 2017

Podcast guest, “Geek Interpreter: Queerbaiting & Transformative Fandom,” The Three-Patch Podcast

Aug 2016

Podcast guest, “Shipping and Activism,” Fansplaining

Mar 2015

Interviewed and quoted, Elizabeth Minkel, “From the Internet to the Ivy League: Fanfiction in the Classroom,” The Millions

Recent Teaching Experience

University of Virginia

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Hannibal as Counter-Quality TV (SP22)
Communities and Cultures of Media Fandom (FA22/SP22/FA21/SP21/SP20)
East Asian Transnational Media (FA22)
Hong Kong Cinema and Cultural Identity (FA21/SP20)
Japanese Film in Global Context (SP22/SP21)
Hollywood Goes to Asia (FA20/FA19)
Art of the Video Essay (FA22/FA21)

Service

Professional

Membership: Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Association for Asian Studies

Editorial Board: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Transformative Works and Cultures, The Velvet Light Trap, Fandom and the Humanities book series (Palgrave MacMillan)

Programming Committee: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, 2018; 2022

Steering Committee: Fan and Audience Studies Special Interest Group, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2016-2018.

Co-Organizer & Online Coordinator: Fan Studies Network North America Conference, 2017-2022

Reviewer: Convergence; Tourism Geographies; Journal of Cinema and Media Studies; Convergence; New Media & Society; Women’s Studies in Communication; Continuum; Plaridel Journal; Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media; Journal of Fandom Studies; [in]Transition; Genre en series; Palabra Clave; Participations; Transformative Works and Cultures; In Media; Routledge; Oxford University Press; University of Iowa Press; Peter Lang.

Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia

Member, Distinguished Majors Committee, 2022-23.
Member, Annual Review Committee, 2022.
Member, Subcommittee on Film Studies Curriculum, 2023-