Name Institutional Affiliation Areas of Expertise/Interest Languages
Name Institutional Affiliation Areas of Expertise/Interest Languages
Monmouth University 3d animation, animation theory, compositing, puppetry
Leeds College of Art Leeds College of Art Animation History, storytelling, transmedia English
Adeline Marteil
Adriana Navarro Álvarez
Ai-Ting Chung Japanese Anime Chinese, English
Akshata Udiaver English
Alan Cholodenko The University of Sydney film theory, animation theory, contemporary French thought English, French
Alan Nguyen Melbourne Polytechnic & QCA, Griffith University Animation, Conflict Resolution, Non-violence, Superheroes Australia
Alba Montoya Rubio University of Barcelona Music and animation, Disney, musical theatre English, French, German, Spanish, Catalan
Alder Otto Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts history of moving images, animation history, curating festivals, jurys german, english
Alejandro R Gonzalez Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Argentina Argentine animation history and aesthetics, animation narrative, experimental animation, animation festivals Spanish, English
Alex Jukes Edge Hill University 3-D CGI and experimental Animation English
Alex Widdowson
Alison Loader Concordia University media and cultural studies, 3d animation, expanded animation, stereoscopic cinema, pre-cinema English
Amina Akorede
Amy Davis University of Hull US Animation History, Disney Studio History, Gender Studies, Hollywood Cinema History, Hollywood Horror (esp. Children's horror) English
Amy Kravitz Rhode Island School of Design Experimental Animation English
Amy Ratelle University of Toronto critical media studies, childrens culture, animality studies, animation studies, posthumanist theory, visual culture English
Andi Spark Griffith UNiversity character animation, drawing, female representation, producing, animated installations, sequential narrative english
Andres Montenegro Department of Visual Communication and Design. College of Visual and Performing Arts. Indiana University-Purdue University. Fort Wayne 3D Computer Animation. Augmented Reality. Immersive Environments English, Spanish and French
Andrew Connor University of Edinburgh sound design for animation, 3D CGI animation, visual music English
Andrew Hagan
Anitha Balachandran Srishti Instiute of Art, Design and technology, Bangalore and Jamia University, New Delhi South-asian animation, animated documentary, experimental animation English, Hindi, French
Ann Owen Falmouth University animation history and theory, neuroscientific and psychological approaches English
Arun Kumar American University in the Emirates 3D Animation, Characater Modeling, 3D Artist, 3D Visualization, Stop Motion Animation English, Hindi
Aylish Wood University of Kent digital media, animation, digital games, gallery installations
Becky James
Belinda Oldford
Bella Honess Roe University of Surrey Animated documentary; realism in animation; animation spectatorship; ontology of the animated image
Ben Shedd School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University Immersive cinema, production English
Benjamin M De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde 2D Animation (Traditional and Digital) English
Bernard Sullivan
Bingxin Han
Birgitta Hosea Royal College of Art Live animation, expanded animation, experimental drawing, performance and performativity, site specific installation, digital materiality, practice based research, collaborative and process based approaches, research degree supervision English, Swedish, intermediate German, basic French
Bronwyn Horne University of the Witwatersrand Animation; Chronophotography South Africa
Carmen Hannibal independent animation scholar animation theory, continental philosophy, metaphor studies English
Carol MacGillivray Goldsmiths, University of London Screenless animation, animation history, psychophysical effects of animation, narrative English
Caroline Ruddell Brunel University Animation theory, Japanese animation
Catia Peres IADE, Creative University Animation, Japanese Animation, Hayao Miyazaki, Design English, Portuguese, French
Charles Johnson
Charles Kenny animation history, western theatrical animation, televisual programming, Irish animation, animation development and production, content accessibility, the growth of animation as an artform
Cheryl Briggs (formerly Cabrera) University of Central Florida computer animation, animation production, CGI, rigging, stop motion English
Chris Aaron
Chris Bowman University of Technology Sydney animation theory, history, aesthetics, visual language, narrative design: abstract / experimental animation, installation, expanded cinema, locative and situated media
Chris Carter Queensland University of Technology 3D Computer Graphics
Chris Denaro Queensland University of Technology
Chris Pallant Canterbury Christ Church University, UK animation history, American animation, digital animation, Disney, interactive animation, Pixar, video game animation English
Chris Sagovac Webster University Experimental and Character Animation English
Chrissy Guest
CHRISTIAN UVA
Christine Veras Nanyang Technological University Animated Installations, Optical Toys, Stop-motion English, French, Portuguese
Christopher Holliday Kings College London contemporary U.S. animation, Disney/Pixar, animation history and theory, computer-animated films English
Christopher Somerville Sheridan College 3D Animation and Character Modeling English
Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music Experimental and Abstract Animation, History of Visual Music, Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Film Preservation, curatorial and technical issues of authenticity and format in museum exhibitions of animation
Cole Delaney
Conann FitzPatrick
Constantinos Panayi Middlesex University 3D Environment Artist specialising in VR Technology and have a strong interest in working with Healthcare/Medical Virtual Reality English, Greek
Craig Smith Canterbury Christ Church University motion comics, transmedia, comics, adaptation, animation history, digital animation practice, new media
Cristina Formenti Università degli Studi di Milano animated documentary English, Italian
Dan Torre RMIT University Animation Theory, Australian Animation History
Daniel Beckman UCLA political cartoons in Latin America, eclectic art movements, Cold-War culture English, Spanish, German
David Perlmutter Television Animation Canada
davide Benvenuti ADM school of art design and Media character animation 2D and 3D Singapore
Davide Giurlando
Deanna Morse
Deborah Cameron
Deborah Szapiro University of Technology, Sydney Australian Animation, Asian Animation, the evolution of narrative form and design aesthetics across media screens
Deborah Tudtud University of San Carlos 2D Classical Animation, 2D Digital Animation, Cartooning, Picture Book Illustrations English, Filipino, Bisaya
Dennis Tupicoff writing, direction, production, animated documentary, rotoscope, animation + live-action English
Dietmar Meinel University of Duisburg-Essen Aesthetic Theory, Disney Film, Pixar Film English, German
Dirk de Bruyn Deakion university experiemntal animation, australian animation, trauma English, Dutch
Elaine Drainville Animation/Film Therapy English
Emine Gokcek
Eric Farrar
Eric Herhuth Tulane University animation theory, Pixar, theories of aesthetics and politics
Erick Ibarra
Erwin Feyersinger University of Tuebingen (Germany) animation aesthetics, narratology, cognitivism, semiotics English, German
Faiyaz Jafri English, Dutch
Fatemeh Hosseini-Shakib Tehran Art University Animation theory and aesthetic, puppet/clay animation, Representation and Realism in animation, Medium specificity argument, Iranian Animation Farsi, English
Fauzi Naeim Universiti Kuala Lumpur Drawing, Animation/ cinema theory, semiotics, hermeneutics, phenomenology English, Malay
Felipe Silva
Fia Soh
Francisco Enciso Cal Arts 2d animation
Franziska Bruckner University of Vienna experimental animation, animation and fine arts, German and Austrian animation English, German
Gabriela Sá
gary rosborough
Geir Laingen
Georges SIFIANOS ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs), Paris-France Animation aesthetics, Mental imagery, Perception, Dance, Fine Arts, New forms. French, English, Greek
Georgina Brown
Giannalberto Bendazzi Animation history English, French
Gonzalo Parrilla Gallego
Grace Han University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill French animation, Japanese animation, visual culture English, Korean, French
Gray Hodgkinson Massey University Animation education and pedagogy, practice, story-telling theory, Animation in New Zealand English
Greg Lawson
Gregory Bennett Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand 3D animation, motion capture, animation theory, stereoscopic film, animation history English
Gunnar Strom Volda University College animation (history), documentary, music video Scandinavian, English, a little German
Hannes Rall Nanyang Technological University Animation history, 2D animation, German animation, Literature and animation, Southeast Asian Animation
Harvey Deneroff animation history (especially labor and economic issues), animation industry, theory English
Heather Holian University of North Carolina, Greensboro interests: Art of Disney/Pixar animation, animation history, collaboration within animation studios, intersection between fine art and animation, Expertise: Italian Renaissance art and Pixar Animation Studios history English, Italian
Helen Brunsdon
Henriette Reisner
Henry Melki
hugo glover
Ines Jerray Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts of Kairouan (Tunisia) + University of Artois (France) animation in fine arts, sensory experiences, cognition, animism, creative process, body French, Arabic, English, Italian
Irene Kotlarz Platform Animation; CalArts Festival organisation and curation; art, film and animation history and theory
Iveta Karpathyova OCAD University hand-drawn animation, rotoscoping, visual music English, French, Slovak
J.J. Sedelmaier University of Wisconsin Madison Animation history, TV commercial production English
Jacqueline Ristola York University Anime, film theory, animation theory, rotoscope, Japanese animation, English, Spanish
James Frost Canterbury Christ Church University Puppetry, Jan Svankmajer, Stop Motion English
James Walker
Jan Caspers
Jana Rogoff Humboldt University Berlin Central and Eastern European Animation English, Czech, Russian, German
Jane Batkin University of Lincoln Animation History: Warner Brothers, Disney (emotion and empathy), Fleischer Studios, Experimental Animation (painting on glass: Orlova and Petrov in particular) English
Jane Shadbolt University of Newcastle Stop motion animation
Janeann Dill, phd, mfa IIACI: Institute for Interdisciplinary Art and Creative Intelligence artist and scholar: experimental animation, painting, drawing, media philosophy; history of experimental animation with a focus in critical studies at the intersections of painting, philosophy, and cinema within the history of art; Jules Engel Biographer
Jason Douglass Yale University Japanese animation
Jean Detheux abstract/experimental animation, art animation, Visual Music, phenomenology of perception French, English
Jeremy Bessoff
Jeremy Moorshead Anglia Ruskin University Animated storytelling, stop motion, animation history English
Jing Zhao
João Paulo Schlittler Universidade de São Paulo digital animation, Stop-motion animation, Motion Graphics, User Interface Design Animation English, Portuguese
Jodie Wick Norwich University of the Arts Animation Definition, Industrial Classification and data collection on the Animation sector, Infrastructure of Animation Industry
Joe King
John Akre Hamline University Animation history, youth animation, stop motion, early animation English
John Carpenter
John Parry
Jose Fonseca National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University Character Animation, 3D Animation, Traditional Animation, Body Expression, Storyboarding, Illustration Portuguese, English
Josiane Keller Edinburgh College of Art, Leeds Beckett University, Kyoto Seika University experimental puppet animation, Czech Animation, Švankmajer /Trnka /Kawamoto, animation history, animation + stage performance, sound for animation, animation + street art, forward thinking animation English, German, Dutch, some Japanese, some Italian
Juaina Ahmad Fadzil
Juergen Hagler University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus
Julian Grant Columbia College Chicago Real Time Animation, Cinema Visual FX, 3D Animation, Comics/ Manga/ Graphic Novels English
Kaho Yu
Kara Andersen Brooklyn College animation genres, American animation, film theory, material culture, digital games
Karen Kriss UNSW Art and Design
Kate Raney
katherine balchin
Kayla Parker Plymouth University direct animation, artists' moving image, experimental animation, feminism, new materialism English
Kim Noce
Kirsten Thompson Victoria University animation history, animation and color, Fleischer Bros, Disney & Warner Bros, English
Laura Ivins-Hulley Indiana University stop motion animation, Svankmajer, animated performance, animation reception, surrealism and dada
Laura Montero Anime, Asian Cinemas Spanish, French, English, Japanese
Lauren Carr
Laurence Arcadias Maryland Institute college of Art, Baltimore 2D animation, stopmotion, French animation English, french
Lea Jacobs University of Wisconsin-Madison animation and music English, French
Lea Vidakovic Nanyang Technological University - Art, Design, Media animated installation, expanded animation, narrative, storytelling, puppet animation English, Serbian, Hungarian
Leila Honari Griffith University Concept design, animation history, animated installations, drawing, sequential narrativea English, Farsi
Li Xie
Lilly Husbands Kings College London experimental animation English, French, Swedish
Linda Simensky PBS television animation production, animation history English
Lisa Scoggin Music and animation
Lottie Kingslake
Louise Harvey Griffith University CGI animation, environments, modelling, previsualisation English
Love Asis De La Salle College of Saint Benilde 3D animation, Visual effects for TV, movies and advertising
Luigi Allemano Concordia University animation theory, music and sound in animation, visual music, improvisation studies English
Luis Daniel Martínez Alvarez University of the Americas Puebla film music, animation studies, mexican animation, stop motion, animated film music Spanish, English
Lukasz Pater
Luke Dubin Independant Scholar animated cartoon characters' dress, anime, television and film, popular culture, animated television shows
M. Javad Khajavi Nanyang Technological University Experimental Animation: Animated Poetry, Animated documentary, Visual Music; New media art: Projection Mapping, VR/AR, Immersive Space, Animation Installation, New Media Art and Islamic Art & Aesthetics; Cross-disciplinary Animation: Data and Information English, Persian (Farsi)
Maarit Kalmakurki Aalto University costume design English, Swedish
Madihaa Rana
Malcolm Cook University of Southampton Silent British Animation, Abstract Animation
Mantas Jurgis Talmantas
Marco Bellano University of Padova, Italy Music for animation Italian, English
Marcos Magalhaes PUC-Rio Animation Principles, History of Animation English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Maria Katsaridou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece animation theory, semiotics, narratology English, Greek, Bulgarian, Italian
Maria Lorenzo Hernandez Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Experimental storytelling, artistic techniques in animation, literature adaptations, self-reflectiveness and autoportrait, animation codes and their disruption, erotism & animation. Spanish, English, Cathalan
Maria Rhodes CUNY Graduate Center Animation History, Avant-Garde Animation English
Marie Pruvost-Delaspre University Sorbonne Nouvelle Japanese animation, animation production and history, techniques French, English, Japanese
Marina Teixeira Kerber Universidade de São Paulo pixillation, pixilation, stop motion, animation history, brazilian animation, early animation English, portuguese, spanish
Martha Gorzycki San Francisco State experimental/documentary animation, installation, new media english
Martin Rose Emily Carr University of Art & Design Cut-outs, two-dimensional, experimental, digital production English
Matthew Gidney University of Technology Sydney Animaton Production Technology English
Matthew Hipps
Maureen Furniss California Institute of the Arts, Animation Journal animation history and aesthetics, experimental production, American animation, drawing on film, baby-oriented programming English
Max Hattler School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong experimental animation, visual music, motion design, abstract film, new media art, audiovisual performance English, German
Melanie Hani University of Sunderland Therapeutic and Educational Animation English
Mette Peters Utrecht University / EYE Filmmuseum animation history, Dutch animation, preservation, archives Dutch, English, German
Micah Weber Pacific Northwest College of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts - Kinetic Imaging Experimental Animation, Animated Documentary, Experimental Documentary English
Michele Leigh Southern Illinois University Carbondale animation history, adult animation, Eastern European Animation English, Russian
Michelle Morgan
Mihaela Mihailova Yale University Animation history and theory, digital media, visual effects, Russian and Eastern European animation English, Bulgarian, Russian
Millie Young Mahidol University International College (MUIC) 2D Animation, Oral History in Animation English
Miriam Harris
Molinia Anne Velasco De La Salle College of Saint Benilde animation history, philippine animation, multimedia arts Philippines
Monireh Astani Tehran Art University Animation Production, theory and aesthetic. Educational and social productions in the field of Animation. Literary and artistic adaptation in Animation. Iranian Animation Farsi, English
Nancy Beiman Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning animation, storyboard, character design, production design, production, story and writing, animation history English
NAZLI EDA NOYAN BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITY DIGITAL ANIMATION, ILLUSTRATION, GRAPHIC DESIGN ENGLISH, TURKISH
Nichola Dobson University of Edinburgh US television animation, animation genre, history & animation theory, Norman McLaren, television genre, media studies, gender representation
Nicola Stefani University of Florence Italian animation, storyboarding for animation, visual culture, comics and illustration English, Italian, French
Nina Sabnani Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay Animation Studies, Documentary Animation,Experimental Animation English
Ohad Landesman
Pamela Turner Virginia Commonwealth University animation theroy and history, experimental animation, hybrids and extensions of animation
Paolo Parmiggiani Castello dei Burattini - Museum of puppetry, Parma (Italy) Animation history (puppet theatre, antique and modern automata, moving images, videogames) Italian, English, French
Parissa Mohit English-French
Pascal Lefèvre
Paul Ward Animation Department, School of Media, Arts University College at Bournemouth, UK animation theory and its relation to practice; British and US animation history; questions of realism in animation; representations of mental states in animation; animated documentary/nonfictional animation
Peter Chanthanakone University of Iowa 3D animation, Animation pipeline, Virtual collaboration, Outsourcing animation, Online education English, Thai, Lao
Pierre Cras
Pierre Floquet INP Bordeaux film analysis French, English
Pirkko Rathgeber eikones NCCR Iconic Criticism University of Basel Manuals for Early Animation Film, Animationfilm in Contemporary Art
Rachel Botha
Rachel Walls Charles Sturt University Traditional Animation, Editing as Animation, Motion Graphics, Animation History, Japanese Animation English
Rayna Denison
Raz Greenberg Tel Aviv University definition of animation, animation and culture, visual communications, Japanese animation, Hayao Miyazaki, Osamu Tezuka, The Fleischer Brothers Hebrew, English, basic Japanese
Rebecca Stanton
Rebekah Taylor
Richard Leskosky University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign animation history, non-film animation, animation patents, animation genres
Richard Neupert University of Georgia Animation history & narration English, French
Richard Yarhouse Kendall College of Art and Design Digital 2D animation, Animation History, Sequential Art
Robert Musburger University of Houston Animation History English
Robert Szczerba Sheffield College; Nottingham Trent University Animation history, practice and research
Romana Turina University of York Essay Film, screenwriting for animation, Harryhausen, animation in documentary English, Italian, Greek
Rosa Fisher
Ruth Hayes The Evergreen State College animation practice and pedagogy, nonfiction animation, precinema animation English
Ruth Richards
Sabine Heller University of Kent women in animation, animation history, production studies, authorship
Sabrina Schmid Teesside University, School of Computing, Institute of Design Culture and the Arts animation education, independend filmmaking, experimental animation, abstract animation, digital animation, fine art, research English
Sam Summers University of Sunderland Animation History, Contemporary Animation, DreamWorks Animation, Intertextuality English
Samantha MOORE University of Wolverhampton, Loughborough University animated documentary, digital animation, 2D animation, scripting / ideas generation, pre-production, post-production
Samuel Viñolo-Locubiche Spanish animation, 3D animation Spanish, English, German, Catalan
Sandro Del Rosario St. Mary's College of Maryland Experimental Animation, Animation History English, Italian
Sandy Farrar
Sara Khalili Tehran University of Art Farsi, English, French
Sarah Bowen
Sarah Feinbloom
Shannon Brownlee Dalhousie University film theory, stop-motion English, French
Shaopeng Chen University of Southampton Chinese animation, Chinese cinema English, Chinese
Sharon Forward
Shirley Sehee KIM Bucheon International Animation Festival experimental animation, media art, image aesthetics, fine art English, Korean
Signe Kjær Jensen Linnaeus University children's animation, sound, music, multimodality English, Danish
Sinead Gillett Trinity College Dublin Irish animation English
Sophie Mobbs Middlesex University Computer Animation English, French
Sorin Oancea
Stephane Collignon HEAJ, Namur (Belgium) Animation Hisotry/Theory/Aesthetic, Cartoon (print and animated), Graphic Narration, Transmedia French, English
Steve Weymouth University of New South Wales Australia, Art and Design CGI modelling and animation, virtual reality, character design and movement
Sujay Narayan
Sultan Efe university of Lincoln 3D character rigging, modeling, surfacing and rendering English, Turkish
Susan Ohmer University of Notre Dame Animation history, Disney, studio animation 1930s and 1940s English, French
Susan Smith University of Sunderland Stardom and performance (incl. voice) in animation; the animated film musical; animation and the natural world
Susan Young Royal College of Art drawn animation, animation as a moving art therapy, psychological trauma
Terry McManus
Terry Wragg
Teta Tulay De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde | Kalayaan College - Fine Arts Program Experimental animation, Shadowplay English, Filipino
Tiara Sather
Timo Linsenmaier Staatliche Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Karlsruhe animation history, Soviet, Russian and Eastern European animation English, French, Russian, German
Timothy Jones University of California, Los Angeles Extension Animation education and professional development, Online Learning, Indian Animation, Animation Archives English
Timothy White Missouri State University American animation, anime English, Bahasa Malaysia
Todd Pierce
Tom Eaton Kingsborough Community College 2d animation, storytelling, storyboarding, 3D animation, Toon Boom English
Tom Klein Loyola Marymount University New media, Flash animation, early American and Lantz studio cartoons
Tony Tarantini Sheridan Institute Animation Production (pre/post production, directing, management), theory/ practice relationships and curriculum design. English, Italian, conversational French
Turine Viet-Tu Tran
Tze-yue Gigi Hu Dharma Realm Buddhist Association Healing and Spiritual Art Forms, Asian studies-animation, visual and cultural studies English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese
VASSILIS KROUSTALLIS Ionio University, Greece animation theory, European animation English, Greek
Victoria Grace Walden
vincenzo maselli Sapienza University of Rome stop-motion animation Italian, English
Wiley Wiggins
Yeon Choi University of Louisiana Computer Animation English, Korean
Young Doo Yoon
Yuanbo Zhong
Yuanyuan Chen University of Ulster animation theory and history, Chinese animation, experimental animation English, Chinese
Yueyue Hu
Zabrina McIntyre Middlesex University Interests: Animation history, animation in museum collections English