Convener:
Kodi Maier (they/them), University of Hull
Description:
The LGBT/Queer Animation SIG aims to collate, strengthen and further research on queerness in animation, as well as LGBT+ representation in animation. With the rise of LGBT+ and queer characters in mainstream animation (e.g. Steven Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power) and the growing scholarship on animation as a queer medium (see Aylish Wood’s chapter, “The Animated Queer”, in Queer Cinema in Europe [2005]), Animation Studies needs a forum to channel the conversations on these and related topics. This SIG provides a forum so that scholars may build off each other and publish work to carry this subfield of Animation Studies forward.
Membership:
- Kodi Maier (they/them), University of Hull
- Sofía Félix Poggi (she/her/they/them), Universidad de San Andrés
- Steisha Pintado (she/her), University of North Carolina Greensboro
- Miriam Harris (she/her), Auckland University of Technology
- Linda Simensky (she/her), PBS and University v. of Pennsylvania
- Irida Zhonga (she/her), University of Groningen
- Jason Cody Douglass (he/him), Yale University & Waseda University
- Sandeep Ashwath (he/him), Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology
- Jacqueline Ristola (she/her), Concordia University
- Diek Grobler (he/him), Independent Animator/Director
- Xavier Héloïse Gorgol Steimetz/x. (they/them), Ecole de Recherche Graphique
- Michele Mosena (he/him), Università degli studi di Padova
- Catherine Lester (she/her), University of Birmingham
- Sam Decoste (they/them), NSCAD University
- Sam Gurry (they/them), NYU-LA, California State University
- Lilly Husbands (she/her), Middlesex University
- Sandra Annett (she/her), Wilfrid Laurier University
- Rose Bond (she/her), Pacific Northwest College of Art
- Alyssa Garoogian (she/her), Freelance artist/outreach educator
- Denise Burge (she/her), University of Cincinnati
- Jim Le Fevre (he/him), University of Creative Arts, UK
- Linda C Zhang (she/her), University of California, Berkeley
- Yvonne Hennessey (she/her), Technological University, Athlone, Ireland
- Vincenzo Maselli (he/him), Sapienza University of Rome
- Hsiang Chin Moe (she/her), School of Visual Arts, NYC
- Gabrielle Dulys (they/them/she/her), Yokohama National University
- Christopher Taylor (he/him), Johns Hopkins University
- Congbo Zhao (he/him), Independent Animator/Director; JZ Animation Studio
- Trent Kim (he/him), University of the West Scotland
- Mihaela (Misha) Mihailova (she/her), San Francisco State University
- Laurence Arcadias (elle; neutral pronouns), Maryland Institute College of Art
- Catherine Slilaty (she/her), Concordia University
- Marisa Tontaveetong (she/her), Asifa-South (International Animation Society – South US chapter)
- Morgan Podraza (she/her), Ohio State University
- Becka Barker (she/they), NSCAD University; York University, Canada
- Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban, McGill University
- Devlin Grimm (she/her/they/them), Independent Scholar/Senior Recruiter at Sony Pictures Animation
- Terry Wragg, Women’s Animation Collective
- Augusto Queiroz da Costa (he/him), Universidad do Estado de Santa Catarina
- Caitlin Casiello (she/her), Yale University
- Melissa Bouwman (she/her), Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
- Kyle Meikle, University of Baltimore
- Saiq’a S. Chowdhury (she/her), Parsons School of Design, The New School
- Veronika Hanáková (she/her), Charles University Prague
- Kate Raney (she/her), Ohio University
- Charles Kenny (he/him), Independent Scholar
- Rachel Walls (she/her), Charles Sturt University
- Maliha Miriam (she/her), Canterbury Christ Church University
- Brigitta Hosea (she/her), University for the Creative Arts, UK
- Ayanni Cooper (she/her), University of Florida
- Nichola Dobson (she/her), University of Edinburgh
