Anime Studies

Dr. José Andrés Santiago Iglesias is a visual artist, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Fine Arts Faculty (Universidade de Vigo, Spain), focused on expanded-field comics, manga and anime studies. Member of the ACDCómic [Spanish Association of Critics and Researches of Comics] since its inception in 2012. Former fellow of the Japan Foundation’s Japanese Studies Program and invited postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate School of Manga (Kyoto Seika University, Japan, 2014 - 2016). His doctoral thesis was revised into a book entitled Manga. Del cuadro flotante a la viñeta japonesa published by Comanegra in 2010. He is currently leading a Ministry-funded research project entitled “Estudios Transdisciplinares sobre Cómic (ETC)” [Transdisciplinary Comics Studies]

Dr. Ana Soler Baena is a visual artist, researcher and professor at the Fine Arts Faculty (Universidade de Vigo, Spain) since 2000. She holds a Degree in Design and Engraving, and PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Seville. Through her research and artistic career, she has been involved with many different institutions, such as the Kyoto City University of Art (Japan), Tokyo National University of Fine Arts (Japan), National Chiayi University (Taiwan), Toronto York University (Canada), École de Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg (France), Kupferstichkabinett Museum at Basel (Germany), Heriot-Watt University College of Art at Edinburg (UK), Scuola Internacionale di Gráfica d’Arte di Florencia (Italy) or the Istituto Nazionale per la Gráfica d’Arte di Roma (Italy), among many others. Her artworks can be currently found in major private collections, as well as in public institutions and museums.