Lori Morimoto is an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Temple University Japan – Kyoto. She researches transnational/transcultural fandoms and transnational media co-production and distribution. Her work has been published in East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Transformative Works and Cultures, Participations, Asian Cinema, and Mechademia: Second Arc. She has also contributed to Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (NYU Press, 2017), The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (Routledge, 2018), A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), and Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics (Iowa, 2021). Lori teaches undergraduate courses on Japanese popular culture, film adaptation, and Japanese language.

Outside of work, Lori likes to check out tea shops in the Kansai region and tries to refrain from buying too much zakka. She does genealogy in her spare time and fangirls over Hannibal, Good Omens, What We Do in the Shadows, The Untamed, Check, Please!, and Our Flag Means Death. Lori was born in West Texas, grew up in Hong Kong, and met her (Californian) spouse in Tokyo.