Zachary Gottesman
PBRC Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-25
American racial discourses of Asianness are part of this shift and investigates how Asians became contemporary mediators of global Asian capitalist production and the American settler-colonial empire.
Dr. Zachary Gottesman is a Pacific Basin Research Center Post-Doctoral Fellow at Soka University of America. Zachary received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, where he wrote a dissertation “Korean Animation: Aesthetics in the Age of Globalized Production” which he is currently turning into a manuscript. He has published work in journals including the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Animation: an interdisciplinary journal the Journal of Settler Colonial Studies and positions: asia critique and presented his research at conferences including the Association of Asian Studies Conference, the World Congress of Korean Studies, and the Modern Language Association Conference. His research interests include animation, Japanese and Korean popular culture, global political economy, new media, and transnational fandoms.