Lawrence Eng

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Lawrence Eng is a Korean - American social scientist . He is the author of several publications on youth culture, especially otaku .

biography

Lawrence Eng graduated from Seoul International School in 1994 and then moved to the United States . There he first worked as a teacher in a Kung Fu school while he studied biology at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York . Eng worked in the laboratory of the Department of Plant Biology from 1998 and completed his master's degree in Plant Biology: Cell and Molecular Biology in 2000. From that year he was employed at the University of California, Davis as a teaching assistant in the field of molecular and cell biology. In 2002 he moved to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , in the Science and Technology Department, as a teaching assistant.

In 2003 he began researching youth cultures as an assistant to Prof. Ron Eglash, initially the graffiti scene. From this year he was in charge of the Computers for Kids project , which aims to train young people to use computers. In 2006, Eng did his PhD in science and technology with a thesis on postmodern youth cultures, especially the otakus , fans of anime and manga . Since 2006 he has been employed as Product Research Manager at Opera Software .

Publications

  • Manga in Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia . Scholastic Library Publishing, 2005
  • Anime in Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia . Scholastic Library Publishing, 2005
  • Otaku in Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia . Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006
  • Understanding the Evolution of the Otaku Concept in Success Stories: Japan . March 2007
  • The Fans Who Became Kings in Ga-Netchū! The Manga Anime Syndrome . 2008

Lectures and contributions

Lawrence Eng has been at the Anime Punch! Event since 2001 . represented as a speaker, since 2006 also as an invited guest. In 2005 he was a participant in two roundtables for the Japan Society in New York on the subject of otaku and in 2007 at the University of North Texas at Denton.

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SURNAME Eng, Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean-American social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1994