Christopher SmithChristopher Smith teaches in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida. A specialist in East Asian Studies, he received his PhD from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of East Asian Languagesand Literatures, Japanese Literature. His research centers on postwar Japanese literature, visual culture, and popular culture, and especially in how texts construct or deconstruct power and society, and how they can playfully undermine and inscribe social and political power simultaneously. Read More Read Less