Professor of Japanese
Jon Holt is Professor of Japanese at Portland State University. His research interests include manga (Japanese comic books), modern Japanese poetry, and Japanese Buddhism. Recent publications include: “Type Five and Beyond: Tools to Teach Manga in the College Classroom” (Exploring Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom, 2022) and (with Elsa Loftis) “Unexpected Wins: Curating Comics and Teaching Manga from the Dark Horse Comics Collection” for the edited volume Comic Books, Special Collections, and Academic Libraries (2023). Together with Teppei Fukuda, he has published numerous translations in English of essays on manga by Natsume Fusanosuke in journals, such as The Comics Journal, INKS, ImageTexT, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, International Journal of Comic Art, and U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal.