Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., Boston University; Ph.D., Yale University
reholmbe@sewanee.edu
Ryan Holmberg is a comics historian and translator. He is the author of The Translator Without Talent (2020) and Garo Manga: The First Decade, 1964-1973 (2010). He has edited and translated over two dozen manga, including the 2014 Eisner Award-winning edition of Tezuka Osamu’s The Mysterious Underground Men. His many essays and reviews can be found in such venues as The Comics Journal, Artforum International, and The New York Review. He has advised on exhibitions at the British Museum and the Honolulu Museum of Art, and has taught at Duke University, University of Tokyo, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among other schools He can be found on social media @mangaberg.