The Animation Studies Reader - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Nichola Dobson is a Lecturer in Animation at Edinburgh College of Art, UK. Founding editor of Animation Studies (2006 - 2011) and Animation Studies 2.0 (2012- present), she has published on animation, television genre and fan fiction, including Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons (2009). She was President of the Society for Animation Studies from 2015-2019.

Annabelle Honess Roe is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for Film Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. She is author of Animated Documentary (2013); co-editor of The Animation Studies Reader (2019), Vocal Projections: Voices in Documentary (2018); and editor of Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop-motion Film (2020).

Amy Ratelle is the editor of Animation Studies, the online peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Animation Studies (SAS). She received her PhD in Communication and Culture, a joint programme between Ryerson University and York University, and degrees in Film Studies from Ryerson University (BFA), and Carleton University (MA). Her monograph, Animality and Children's Literature and Film was published in 2015. Her research areas include animation, animality studies, children's literature and culture, and critical media studies. She is currently an academic administrator at the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Caroline Ruddell is Lecturer in Film and TV Studies at Brunel University, London, UK. She is the author of The Besieged Ego: Doppelgangers and Split Identity Onscreen (2013), and has published on witchcraft in television, anime, Rotoshop, and the representation of identity onscreen, and is currently researching Lotte Reiniger's use of scissor artistry. She is Reviews Editor for animation: an interdisciplinary journal and sits on various Editorial Boards.