Bella Honess |
Bella Honess Roe has published extensively on animated documentary and her 2013 monograph, Animated Documentary, which won the Society for Animation Studies McLaren-Lambart Award, was the first book-length study of the form. Her more recent work in this area explores questions of imagination and empathy in animated documentary. Current research interests include using data-driven coding methodologies, such as network science, to explore ‘hidden’ histories of women in animation, and she is currently overseeing the forthcoming multi-volume Encyclopedia of Animation Studies for Bloomsbury. Title: Digging up the Past: Excavating Absent Memories through Animated Documentary |
Jack Halberstam |
Jack Halberstam is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and the David Feinson Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of 7 books, including The Queer Art of Failure, and has a new book appearing in Fall 2026 titled "Anarchitecture After Everything" (The MIT Press). Title: After the Human in Wall-E and other Animated Films |
