Dr Andrew Rayment is Professor of English at Chiba University, Japan. Author of Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity (Rodopi, 2014) and co-editor of Hollywood Remembrance and American War (Routledge, 2020), he has published widely on the intersection of popular art with philosophy and psychoanalysis. His most recent book, An A-Z of Academic Words and Phrases (2024), is a learner's dictionary and study skills handbook for university students in the Humanities and Social Sciences.