Roman Rosenbaum specialises in postwar Japanese literary and popular cultural studies. He received his PhD in Japanese Literature at the University of Sydney. In 2008 he received the Inoue Yasushi Award for best refereed journal article on Japanese literature in Australia. In 2010, he will spend a year as a Research Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) to complete a monograph on the social activist Oda Makoto. He is the author of several papers on graphic novels and manga in the International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA) and co-editor of Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The Yakeato Generation, Routledge 2010.