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These are my essays on anime and manga. Please feel free to read them and cite/quote/critique them if you would like. Comments and criticisms can be addressed to brianruh@yahoo.com.

Creating 'Amateur' Manga in the US: Pedagogy, Professionalism, and Authenticity
Originally published in the International Journal of Comic Art. Available in HTML or PDF format.
Hacking Your Own Ghost: Mythology in the Science Fiction Films of Oshii Mamoru as Sites of Resistance
This is the text of the paper I presented at the Eleventh Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia at Columbia University. It's basically a preliminary summary of my M.A. thesis.
Liberating Cels: Forms of the Female in Japanese Cyberpunk Animation
I presented a much shorter version of this paper at the Eighth Annual Student Gender Studies Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, February 15 ・16, 2001.
The Function of Woman-Authored Manga in Japanese Society
Mass Media, Gender Roles, and Popular Culture in Japan and the United States
This paper was my roundtable paper I presented at the 53rd Japan-America Student Conference. It combines some of the ideas from the above two papers to address mass media in a broader way.
My column, "From Here to Shinjuku," which ran on PopMatters.com:

"Of Bootlegs and Business" July 7, 2004
"Maison Ikkoku and Displaced Nostalgia" May 5, 2004
"America's Japanese Cinema: Appropriating Japan's Cachet of Cultural Cool" January 14, 2004
"Killing in Translation" October 22, 2003
"A Missive From the Front Lines of Fandom" September 4, 2003
"The Animatrix and Anime's Burgeoning Influence" June 26, 2003
"Akihabara Dreams and the New Otaku" April 23, 2003
"Lessons of the Giant Robot" February 26, 2003
"Toward a New Type of Culture" December 17, 2002
"Takin' Comics to the Streets: Glimpses of the Medium's American Future" October 30, 2002

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