Wayne Stein

Born in Korea, Dr. Wayne Stein grew up in Japan and Italy. He has lived in various places in America, like Los Angeles where he practiced gymnastics and watched Shaw Brothers films while collecting Bruce Lee memorabilia in Chinatown.

Bruce taught him to love kung fu cinema, but more importantly, Bruce inspired him to read more.

He has edited books on Ozu, co-written a cyberpunk role-playing gamebook for teaching writing, written essays for an Asian American encyclopedia, written chapters on East Asian horror for various books, written an autobiographic chapter on transformative learning, and co-written on multiple innovative multi-modal readers.

We are the books we don't read. We are the people we don't meet. We are the worlds we don't travel to. If we lack the imagination, the kindness or the empathy that we should possess, it is only because we forgot to be the spirit that already pre-possessed us. Instead, we follow lost leaders, lost fox spirits searching for immortality, lost carnival freaks trying to seduce us to buy more, instead of following our own wise shadow.

Being a professor of English, he writes and edits scholarly books on East Asian horror and cinema.

Furthermore, he teaches literature and cinema courses on cyberpunk, kung fu, Akira Kurosawa, Vietnam War, and Asian American topics. Future book projects are coming, including one on Anna May Wong.

He enjoys martial arts, gamification, and creativity. K-Pop is a virus from outer space. Beware. Remember he warned you.