Fields of Interest
Biography
I am an animation and comics scholar. I am currently working on a manuscript based on my dissertation on Yugoslavia's animation industry, commonly known as the Zagreb School of Animation. I am also working on a lengthy study of Jules Feiffer, "America's first literary cartoonist." I write frequently about comics and conduct interviews with writers and artists for Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, and Full Stop.
Research
Selected Research
- “A Comic Book by Other Means: Alain Resnais and Stan Lee’s The Monster Maker.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61, no. 2, Winter 2022.
- “Boomerangs and Bombs: The Zagreb School of Animation and Yugoslavia’s Third Way Experiment.” Slavic Review, vol. 79, no. 1, Spring 2020.
- “The Zagreb School of Animation and the Unperfect.” Dissertation. University of Washington. 2018.
- "The Animated Esperanto: The Globalist Vision in the Films of Sandor Reisenbuchler." animation: an interdisciplinary journal. vol. 11, no. 1, March 2016, pp. 92-107.
Courses Taught
Winter 2018
CMS 397 A: Animation
Spring 2017
C LIT 240: Writing About Film
Summer 2016:
C LIT 270: Film and the City
Spring 2016
C LIT 240: Comics/Animation/Live-Action Film
Fall 2015
C LIT 240: Comics/Animation/Live-Action Film
Summer 2015
C LIT 240: Comics/Animation/Live-Action Film
Fall 2014
C LIT 240: Comics/Animation/Live Action Film
Spring 2014
ENGL 131
Winter 2014
ENGL 131
Fall 2013
ENGL 131