Rea Amit is assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma. After receiving his PhD in Film and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 2016, he had taught for four years at different liberal arts colleges in Illinois. He has published mainly on Asian media, aesthetics, and theory in journals such as Philosophy East and West, Positions: Asia Critique, Participations: International Journal of Audience Research, On_Culture – The Open Journal for the Study of Culture, as well as several book chapters in edited volumes. He is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled The Japanese Film Experience: A Phenomenological Genealogy of Viewership.