Publications
MONOGRAPH:
Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. [link]
EDITED COLLECTIONS:
Brienza, Casey, Laura Robinson, Barry Wellman, Shelia R. Cotten, and Wenhong Chen, eds. The "M" in CITAMS@30: Media Sociology. London: Emerald, 2018. [link]
Wellman, Barry, Laura Robinson, Casey Brienza, Wenhong Chen, and Shelia R. Cotten, eds. Networks, Hacking, and Media - CITAMS@30: Now and Then and Tomorrow. London: Emerald, 2018. [link]
Brienza, Casey and Paddy Johnston, eds. Cultures of Comics Work. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. [link]
Global Manga: "Japanese" Comics without Japan? London: Routledge, 2015. [link]
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
"The Masturbation Article Affair: Japanese Manga, Scholarly Publishing, and the Twenty-First Century Politics of Censorship." Publishing Research Quarterly. 39.2 (2023): 132-146. [link]
"Domesticating Manga? Japanese Comics and Transnational Publishing." International Journal of Comic Art. 20.1 (2018): 81-97.
Revers, Matthias and Casey Brienza. "How Not to Establish a Subfield: Media Sociology in the United States." The American Sociologist. 49.3 (2018): 352-368. [LEAD ARTICLE] [link]
"Qui est Charlie...? A Sociological Perspective on Charlie Hebdo and the Culture of Comics." Publishing Research Quarterly. 33.4 (2017): 373-379. [link]
Brienza, Casey and Matthias Revers. "The Field of American Media Sociology: Origins, Resurrection, and Consolidation." Sociology Compass. 10.7 (2016): 539-552. [link]
"Degrees of (Self-)Exploitation: Learning to Labour in the Neoliberal University." Academic Freedom and the Contemporary Academy. Spec. issue of Journal of Historical Sociology. 29.1 (2016): 92-111. [link]
"Publishing between Profit and Public Value: Academic Books and Open Access Policies in the United Kingdom." Books and Publishing in the Digital Age. Spec. issue of Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook. 13 (2015): 65-81. [link]
"Activism, Legitimation, or Record: Towards a New Tripartite Typology of Academic Journals." Journal of Scholarly Publishing. 46.2 (2015): 141-157. [link]
"Did Manga Conquer America? Implications for the Cultural Policy of 'Cool Japan'." International Journal of Cultural Policy. 20.4 (2014): 383-398. [link]
"Sociological Perspectives on Japanese Manga in America." Sociology Compass. 8.5 (2014): 468-477. [link]
"Remembering the Future: Cartooning Alternative Life Courses in Up and Future Lovers." The Journal of Popular Culture. 46.2 (2013): 299-314. [link]
"Taking Otaku Theory Overseas: Comics Studies and Japan's Theorists of Postmodern Cultural Consumption." From Akira to Žižek: Comics and Contemporary Cultural Theory. Ed. Tony Venezia. Spec. issue of Studies in Comics. 3.2 (2012): 213-229. [LEAD ARTICLE] [link]
"Opening the Wrong Gate? The Academic Spring and Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences." Publishing Research Quarterly. 28.3 (2012): 159-171. [LEAD ARTICLE] [link]
"Manga Is for Girls: American Publishing Houses and the Localization of Japanese Comic Books." Logos: Journal of the World Publishing Community. 22.4 (2011): 41-53. [link]
"Producing Comics Culture: A Sociological Approach to the Study of Comics." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 1.2 (2010): 105-119. [link]
"Books, Not Comics: Publishing Fields, Globalization, and Japanese Manga in the United States." Publishing Research Quarterly. 25.2 (2009): 101-117. [link]
"Paratexts in Translation: Reinterpreting 'Manga' for the United States." The International Journal of the Book. 6.2 (2009): 13-20. [link]
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Brienza, Casey and Paddy Johnston. "Introduction: Understanding Comics as Cultural Work." Cultures of Comics Work. Eds. Casey Brienza and Paddy Johnston. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. [link]
"Introduction: Manga without Japan?" Global Manga: "Japanese" Comics without Japan?. Ed. Casey Brienza. London: Routledge, 2015. 1-21. [link]
"'Manga Is Not Pizza': The Performance of Ethno-racial Authenticity and the Politics of American Anime and Manga Fandom in Svetlana Chmakova's Dramacon." Global Manga: "Japanese" Comics without Japan?. Ed. Casey Brienza. London: Routledge, 2015. 95-113. [link]
"Objects of Otaku Affection: Animism, Anime Fandom, and the Gods of...Consumerism?" The Handbook of Contemporary Animism. Ed. Graham Harvey. London: Routledge, 2013. 479-490. [link]
"Beyond B&W? The Global Manga of Felipe Smith." Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation. Eds. Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 79-94. [link]
NON-REFEREED ARTICLES:
"Pride and Present: Solidarities and Selective Histories in Progressive Social Movements." Discover Society. 24 (2015). [link]
"Does Manga's Transnational Cool Benefit Japan?" Discover Society. 6 (2014). [link]
"What Do Publishers Know?" Debating Open Access. Eds. Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval. Spec. section of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 11.2 (2013): 515-520. [link]
"E-books Are for Reading Selling." Contexts. 11.1 (2012): 58-59. [link]
"The Space Between." The Korea Fulbright Review. 4 (2004): 18-25.
REVIEW ESSAY:
"Adoption, White Women and the Keeping of Culture." Contexts. 8.4 (2009): 79-81. [link]
NEWSLETTER CONTRIBUTIONS:
"A Preconference, a Petition, and a Place for Media Sociology in the Association: A Personal Account." CITAMS Newsletter. Spring 2018: 6-8. [link]
"In Her Own Words: Intergenerational Feminisms and Women's Colleges." Women in Higher Education. 24.3 (2015): 7+. [link]
Rev. of Digital Humanities Summer Institute. University of Victoria, British Columbia, June 2-6, 2014. SHARP News. 23.4 (2014): 21-22.
Rev. of Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK. British Library, London. SHARP News. 23.3 (2014): 19.
"Transnational Manga, Transnational Research." The Fountain: Trinity College Newsletter. 15 (2012): 8-9. [link]
BOOK REVIEWS:
Rev. of Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989, by Andrea Horbinski. Pacific Affairs. (forthcoming) [link]
Rev. of Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora, by Ju Hui Judy Han. CHOICE 63.11 (2026).
Rev. of Inequalities of Platform Publishing: The Promise and Peril of Self-Publishing in the Digital Book Era, by Claire Parnell. CHOICE 63.9 (2025).
Rev. of When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa, by Christopher T. Nelson. CHOICE 63.6 (2025).
Rev. of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, by Dominic Davies. CHOICE 63.5 (2025).
Rev. of Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans, by James Welker. CHOICE 62.9 (2024).
Rev. of The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga: Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan, by Lynne K. Miyake. CHOICE 62.5 (2024).
Rev. of Creating the Viewer: Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem, by Justin Wyatt. CHOICE 62.3 (2024).
Rev. of The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan, by David Humphrey. CHOICE 61.9 (2023).
Rev. of Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry, by Akiko Takeyama. CHOICE 61.6 (2023).
Rev. of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan, by Sabine Frühstück. CHOICE 61.3 (2023).
Rev. of Transnational Kaijū: Exploitation, Globalisation and Cult Monster Movies, by Steven Rawle. CHOICE 60.10 (2023).
Rev. of A History of Butô, by Bruce Baird. CHOICE 60.9 (2023).
Rev. of Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art, by Miryam Sas. CHOICE 60.8 (2023).
Rev. of Philosophy of Comics: An Introduction, by Sam Cowling and Wesley Cray. CHOICE 60.7 (2023).
Rev. of The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan, by Paul Roquet. CHOICE 60.6 (2023).
Rev. of Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture, by Kim Wilkins, Beth Driscoll, and Lisa Fletcher. Publishing Research Quarterly. 38.4 (2022): 811-812. [link]
Rev. of Disney, by Stacey Mintzer Herlihy. CHOICE. 60.4 (2022).
Rev. of Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News, by Eric Berkowitz. Publishing Research Quarterly. 38.3 (2022): 612-613. [link]
Rev. of Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon, by Mark McGurl. Publishing Research Quarterly. 38.2 (2022): 441-442. [link]
Rev. of Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability, by Eszter Szep. CHOICE. 59.5 (2022).
Rev. of Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics: a Twenty-First-Century Study of Readers and Bookshops in Southampton Around 1900, by Simon R. Frost. Publishing Research Quarterly. 37.4 (2021): 676-678. [link]
Rev. of Archie's Rivals in Teen Comics, 1940s—1970s: A History, by Michelle Nolan. CHOICE. 58.5 (2021).
Rev. of Embracing Differences: Transnational Cultural Flows between Japan and the United States, by Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt. Pacific Affairs. 89.1 (2016): 163-164. [link]
Rev. of Internet Literature in China, by Michel Hockx. LSE Review of Books. 17 July 2015. [link]
Rev. of Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism, by Judy Wajcman. LSE Review of Books. 24 April 2015. [link]
Rev. of Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday, by Christine Hine. LSE Review of Books. 9 April 2015. [link]
Rev. of Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society, by Eva Illouz. Publishing Research Quarterly. 31.1 (2015): 89-90. [link]
Rev. of Enhancing the Doctoral Experience: A Guide for Supervisors and Their International Students, by Steve Hutchinson, Helen Lawrence and Dave Filipovic-Carter. LSE Review of Books. 28 Jan. 2015. [link]
Rev. of The Chinese Fashion Industry: An Ethnographic Approach, by Jianhua Zhao. Contemporary Sociology. 43.6 (2014): 872-873. [link]
Rev. of Twitter: Social Communication in the Twitter Age, by Dhiraj Murthy. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies. 4.1 (2014): 137-138. [link]
Rev. of Anime: A History, by Jonathan Clements. LSE Review of Books. 6 March 2014. [link]
Rev. of The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story, by Ian Condry. LSE Review of Books. 13 Nov. 2013. [link]
Rev. of Beautiful Fighting Girl, by Tamaki Saito. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 4.1 (2013): 185-186. [link]
Rev. of Value and the Media: Cultural Production and Consumption in Digital Markets, by Göran Bolin. Cultural Trends. 22.2 (2013): 139-140. [link]
Rev. of Anime's Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan, by Marc Steinberg. LSE Review of Books. 12 Jan. 2013. [link]
Rev. of The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation, by Simone Murray. LSE Review of Books. 6 Oct. 2012. [link]
Rev. of Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Christina Lupton. Publishing Research Quarterly. 28.3 (2012): 259-260. [link]
Rev. of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick. Publishing Research Quarterly. 28.2 (2012): 150-151. [link]
Rev. of Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World, edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Izumi Tsuji. LSE Review of Books. 5 May 2012. [link]
Rev. of Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga, by Jennifer S. Prough. Publishing Research Quarterly. 27.4 (2011): 370-371. [link]
Rev. of The Book: The Life Story of a Technology, by Nicole Howard. Publishing Research Quarterly 27.3 (2011): 298-299. [link]
Rev. of Multiculturalism in the New Japan: Crossing the Boundaries Within, Volume 6 of Asian Anthropologies, edited by Nelson H. H. Graburn, John Ertl, and R. Kenji Tierney. Sociology. 45.4 (2011): 713-714. [link]
Rev. of Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism by Sarah Sobieraj. Sociological Imagination. 18 July 2011. [link]
Rev. of Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England, by William H. Sherman. Publishing Research Quarterly. 26.4 (2010): 301-302. [link]
Rev. of New Media, Old News: Journalism & Democracy in the Digital Age, edited by Natalie Fenton. Sociological Imagination. 6 Oct. 2010. [link]
Rev. of The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America, Volume 5 of A History of the Book in America, edited by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, Michael Schudson. Publishing Research Quarterly. 26.1 (2010): 72-75. [link]
Rev. of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control, by Ted Striphas. Publishing Research Quarterly. 25.4 (2009): 282-284. [link]
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:
"Backlist and Frontlist." "Creative Commons." "Scribd." The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society. Ed. Debra L. Merskin. London: Sage, 2020. [link]
"Localization." Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. Ed. George Ritzer. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 1304-1305. [link]
SELECTED BLOG/WEB POSTS:
"First Five with Casey Brienza." New Criticals. 6 July 2015. [link]
"Paying Twice or Paying Thrice? Open Access Publishing in a Global System of Scholarly Knowledge Production and Consumption." LSE Impact of Social Sciences. 30 Jan. 2014. [link]
Brienza, Casey, ed. Comics and Cultural Work. Spec. issue of Comics Forum. Dec. 2013. [link]
"Cultural Policy and Zombies." The #culturalvalue Initiative. 3 May 2013. [link]
"Sacrifices and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Academic Careers." Inside Higher Ed (Blog U: University of Venus). 23 April 2013. [link]
"A Reply to Simon Locke." Comics Forum. 20 Jan. 2012. [link]
"Men of Wonder: Gender and American Superhero Comics." University of Cambridge. 1 Nov. 2011. [link]
"'Tee-Kahf': The Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2011." The Comics Grid. 23 May 2011. [link]
"Communication or Credentialing? On the Value of Academic Publishing." LSE Impact of Social Sciences. 5 May 2011. [link]
"Cuts and Cash Cows." Sociology & the Cuts. 10 March 2011. [link]
"From Journalist to Sociologist: Some Reflections." Sociological Imagination. 1 Feb. 2011. [link]
"Postgraduates and the Privatization of English Higher Education." Inside Higher Ed (Blog U: University of Venus). 16 Nov. 2010. (co-authored with Ernesto Priego) [link]
"Community Means Us, Part 2: A Response from Andrew Hacker, Co-Author of Higher Education?." Inside Higher Ed (Blog U: University of Venus). 12 Oct. 2010. [link]
"Community Means Us." Inside Higher Ed (Blog U: University of Venus). 7 Oct. 2010. [link]
"Categorizing Manga by Standardizing the Paratext." In Media Res. 2 April 2010. [link]
SELECTED JOURNALISM*:
"Writing Academic Book Reviews." Inside Higher Ed. 27 March 2015. [link]
"Why You (Yes, You!) Should Write Book Reviews." Inside Higher Ed. 5 December 2014. [link]
"Magische Mädchen und Girl Revolutions." an.schläge: Das feministische Magazin. March 2014: 18-19. [link]
"Asterix comics study: 'research sets a troubling precedent'." Daily Telegraph. 16 June 2011. [link]
"GNR's 2010 Favorites: Manga." Graphic Novel Reporter. 1 Dec. 2010. [link]
"The Spring 2009 Anime Preview Guide." AnimeNewsNetwork.com. 4 April 2009. [link]
"The Fall 2008 Anime Preview Guide." AnimeNewsNetwork.com. 4 Oct. 2008. [link]
"Before and After: Take a look at the early work of some of today's biggest manga artists." Anime Insider. June 2008: 38-41.
"The Spring 2008 Anime Preview Guide." AnimeNewsNetwork.com. 8 April 2008. [link]
"Flower Sounds and Beautiful Boys." Otaku USA. Feb. 2008: 55-59.
"Stand-Out Comics: Ten manga that deserve the anime treatment." Anime Insider. Sept. 2007: 26+.
"Golden Girls: The origins of shojo comics are more surprising than you might believe." Anime Insider. June 2007: 41+.
"After the End: What happened when six major manga series outlasted their anime counterparts." Anime Insider. Jan. 2007: 56-58.
"An Introduction to Korean Manhwa." Aestheticism.com. Feb. 2004. [link]
*full list of 1000+ freelance publications available upon request