Meghan Harrison (PhD candidate, socio-cultural anthropology):is a student of the Japanese language and a socio-cultural anthropologist who focuses on literacy, materiality, science and technology studies and memory.

She is currently working towards completing her dissertation project entitled “Paper people, Digital memory: recreating the public and private in Japan,” where she is tracking the use of documents during daily interactions in Tokyo in order to understand the ways culture, language, and technology shape the public and private spheres of Tokyoite identities and memories. She is also interested in developing coursework, and is currently collaborating in the creation of a new textbook which uses science fiction stories as a medium for deploying the some of the key terms and theories of anthropology.