Susan Paige Taylor is a PhD Candidate in the Anthropology Department at Harvard University. Her dissertation, “The City of Texts: Affective Work and the Ethics of Care in Booktown Jimbōchō, Tokyo,” research focuses on the used bookstore neighborhood of Jimbocho, Tokyo. Through ethnography, she explores the forms of care for material culture, practices of auctions, and affective labor that animate this urban marketplace. Taylor was a 2019 Japan Foundation Fellow and has received a Supplementary Dissertation Research Grant from the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University. She is the English translator of Ketteihan senbotsu gagakki jinmei-roku (War Dead Artist Directory: The Definitive Edition), by Senbotsu Gagakki Irei Bijutsukan Mugonkan and published by Koseisha in 2022, which brings together biographies and works of the war dead artists whose works are now part of the Mugonkan Museum in Ueda, Nagano. She graduated from Georgetown University with a BA in Japanese language and culture and from the University of Tokyo with an MA in Interdisciplinary Information Studies.