Dr. Sugawa-Shimada is the author of a number of books and articles on anime, manga, and Cultural Studies, including Girls and Magic: How Have Girl Heroes Been Accepted? (2013, Won the 2014 Japan Society of Animation Studies Award, in Japanese), chapters in the books Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives (2013), and Teaching Japanese Popular Culture (2016), and the research articles “Rekijo, Pilgrimage and ‘Pop-Spiritualism’: Pop-culture-induced Heritage Tourism of/for Young Women,” Japan Forum (2015) Vol. 27.1. She co-edited An Introduction to Anime Studies (2014, in Japanese). Her website is: akikosugawa.2-d.jp