Sophia Staite

Sophia Staite’s research into tokusatsu film and television has taken them from Oita University in Japan to the University of Tasmania, Australia and even to Germany, where they were a visiting fellow with the Global Sentimentality Project at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität last year. Sophia’s research draws on transcultural media studies, childhood studies, and queer theory to explore the ways audiences around the world have made meaning from tokusatsu texts. Their research has been published in The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, M/C Journal, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, and Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures.