Mark Ross Bookman Author

Carolyn Stevens is Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies at Monash University, Australia. Her research focuses on social problems and disability in Japan, as well as sound studies and popular music. Her most recent monograph is the co-authored Sounding Out Japan: A Sensory Ethnographic Tour (Routledge, 2021) and she is the co-editor of the forthcoming Springer Handbook of the Body, Culture and Society in Modern Japan.

Mark Ross Bookman (1991–2022) was an academic and disability activist with expertise in history, Japan Studies, and Disability Studies. His work has been published in Japanese Studies, The Journal of Japanese Studies and Disability Studies Quarterly. His monograph, Disability Publics: Making Accessibility in Modern Japan, was published by Oxford University Press in 2025. He served on the Association for Asian Studies’ Diversity and Equity Committee, and the board of directors of the Disability History Association and the Society for Disability Studies.