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Lisa Maya Quaianni Manuzzato
Lisa Maya Quaianni Manuzzato (b. Milan, 1984) has a master’s degree cum laude in performing arts, cinema and multimedia communications (Università degli Studi di Milano) with a dissertation on history of animation. She has written about Japanese animation in Animation: A World History (Routledge, 2015) and Animazione: Una storia globale (UTET, 2017), curated by Giannalberto Bendazzi. Later she extends her interests to Spanish comics, Italian comics and self-publishing comics, issues that she covers in conferences and articles. She works as communication manager at WOW Spazio Fumetto – Museo del Fumetto di Milano, where she has also led exhibitions and events related to Japanese Culture and DIY comics. She has organized comics exhibitions for various Italian Cultural Institute with the label MaMa Comics, founded with Maria-Angela Silleni. She is member of the COST Action iCOn-MICs – Investigación sobre el cómic y la novela gráfica en el área cultural ibérica and a founder member of SNIF Studying ’n’ Investigating Fumetti; she is a member of the Neuróptica. Estudios sobre el cómic Editorial Committee, as well as collaborating to the Italian comics critic website Lo Spazio Bianco.