Bio
Max Dionisio (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2007; Master of Information Studies, University of Toronto, 2009) is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Information and former librarian at the Royal Ontario Museum. His research focuses on Japanese book history, the history of Japanese manga, and the material and art histories of Japanese Christianity.
Currently, he is researching the creation, use and proliferation of paper fumi-e or stomping pictures, used by 17th-century Japanese military rulers to identify Christian converts and force them to renounce their faith. He has published in the areas of Japanese studies librarianship, Japanese rare book history, and East Asian Studies librarianship. He has taught courses at the Faculty of Information in metadata, cataloguing, the future of the book, comic books in the library, and subject analysis.