Posts by Alina Cara Murata

From October 2025 to April 2026, I worked alongside my amazing project partner, Katherine (Kate) Jeong, on Exploring Anime: Collections Research and Outreach Programming under our wonderful supervisor, Karen Reiman-Sendi, as part of a Library Student Engagement Fellows project. Our goal was to understand the scope of the University of Michigan Library’s anime collection and raise awareness of it to students and visitors of the library through outreach and programming events. Furthermore, we wanted to showcase that, as the University is a research institution, anime is an expansive genre worth analyzing in a cultural, stylistic, and literary context.