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)
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 Express, Moumantai, 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 | Interviewed and quoted, Kristina Manente, “Origins of Fanfiction Tropes: ‘Enemies-to-Lovers’ is a Trope Readers Love to Hate and Hate to Love,” SYFY Wire |
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
MDST3559
MDST3510
MDST3504
MDST3504
MDST3504
MDST3110
MDST2508
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: 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, MDST in Northern Virginia Committee, 2021.
Member, Speaker Series Committee, 2021.