William O. Gardner

William O. Gardner teaches Japanese language, literature, and film at Swarthmore College. He is the author of The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction (University of Minnesota, 2020), Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s (Harvard University Asia Center Publications, 2006), and numerous articles on Japanese modernism, science fiction, media, and urban culture.