# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/susan-j-napier
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:36:01.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/susan-j-napier"
name: "Susan J. Napier"
slug: "susan-j-napier"
description: "Susan Jolliffe Napier is a professor of the Japanese program at Tufts University. She was formerly the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. She also worked as a visiting professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, and in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Napier is an anime and manga critic."
tagline: "Professor of the Japanese Program at Tufts University"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SusanJNapier.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-10-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.78
  momentum:             13.35766423357664
  historical:           7.225848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1179808/"
    handle:    "nm1179808"
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BBJ%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8D%E3%82%A4%E3%83%94%E3%82%A2"
    title: "スーザン・J・ネイピア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سوزان جاي نابير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سوزان جاى نابير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_J._Napier"
    title: "Susan J. Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_J._Napier"
    title: "Susan J. Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Jolliffe_Napier"
    title: "Susan Jolliffe Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_J._Napier"
    title: "Susan J. Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q931951"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3633535"
    title: "Susan J. Napier"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump