Takayuki Yokota-Murakami is Associate Professor in Russian and Comparative Literature of the Graduate School of Humanities at Osaka University, Japan. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from Princeton University. His research interests are, among others, genealogical study of sexuality in modern Russia and Japan, Translation Studies,  and cultural analysis of manga and anime. His publications include Don Juan East/West: On the Problematics of Comparative Literature (SUNY P, 1998), Manga wa yokubo suru ( Desire in Comics ; Chikuma shobo, 2006), Irootoko-no kenkyu ( The Study of Japanese Libertines ; Kadokawa gakugei shuppan, 2007; winner of Suntory Prize for Outstanding Academic Books), Mother-tongue in Modern Japanese Literature and Criticism: Toward a New Polylingual Poetics (Palgrave, 2018) and so on. He is now co-editing the volume Pop-texts in the Global Context with Noriko Hiraishi.