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Lisa Maya Quaianni Manuzzato
Lisa Maya Quaianni Manuzzato has a master’s degree cum laude in performing arts, cinema and multimedia communications (Università degli Studi di Milano) with a dissertation on the 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 extended her interests to Spanish comics, Italian comics and self-publishing comics, issues that she covers in conferences and articles. Maya has worked 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 organizes comics exhibitions for various Italian cultural institutes with the label MaMa Comics, and contributes to the Italian comics critic website Lo Spazio Bianco. She is a management committee 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 Studying ’n’ Investigating Fumetti (SNIF). She has been a research collaborator at Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca for the project ‘L’Italia a nuvolette: Indagine sulla filiera del fumetto italiana’.
Contact: WOW Spazio Fumetto, Viale Campania, 12, 20133 Milano MI, Italy; Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Piazza S.Francesco, 19, 55100 Lucca LU, Italy.