Books:

Interlaced: Animation & Textiles (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2025). Available in New Zealand and Australia here, and internationally at READ Books HERE.

Graphite: Animated Traces (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2024). Available in New Zealand and Australia here, and internationally at READ Books HERE.

Encyclopedia of Animation Studies: Techniques, Processes, Environments. Co-editing with Jordan Gowanlock and Franziska Proksa (neé Bruckner). Under contract with Bloomsbury Press, expected in 2026.

Journal Articles:

  • “The Floating Horizon and Animated Disorientation,” Animation 2.0 (February 2024). Online Here.
  • “Tracing the Multiplane: Toward a Genealogy of Animation Apparatuses,” Journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies 61.1 (Fall 2021): 160-165. Link to PDF Here.
  • “Homeworkers: Independent Animation and the Feminization of Creative Labor, 1970-1990,” Feminist Media Histories 7.3 (Summer 2021): 53-81. Link to PDF. Online journal link here.
  • “Ėsfir’ Shub on Women in the Editing Room,” Apparatus, No. 6 (Summer 2018), open access. Link Here. [Turkish translation by Duygu Doğan & Sidar Bayram is available Here.]
  • “Perceptual Cells: James Turrell’s Vision Machines Between Two Paracinemas,” Leonardo Journal, 49.4 (2016, Special SIGGRAPH Issue):  306 – 316. Link Here.
  • “Assembling Movement: Scientific Motion Analysis and Studio Animation Practice,” Discourse, 37.3 (Fall 2015): 269 – 297. Link to PDF.
  • “Anticipation of Contact: Pina 3D and Stereoscopic Cinematography.” PUBLIC: Art, Culture, Ideas, 47 (Spring 2013): 174-185. Link Here.
  • “A National Filmmaker without a Home: Home and Displacement in the work of Amir Naderi.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 31. 2 (Fall 2011): 474-486. Link Here.
  • “Anthologizing ‘Davandeh’ (The Runner).” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 27.5 (Fall 2010): 358-359.
  • “At a Loss for Words: Televisual Liveness and Corporeal Interruption.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 24.4 (Spring 2010): 117-134. Link to PDF.

Book Chapters:

  • “A Skillful Isis: Esfir Shub and the Feminization of Film Editing,” in A Companion to Documentary Film History, ed. Joshua Malitsky (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021). Link to PDF.
    [Winner of 2022 SCMS Award for Best Essay in an Edited Collection]
  • “Twenty Four Signatures per Second: Direct Animation and Gestural Repetition,” in Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age, Ed. Janine Marchessault and Scott MacKenzie (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019): 21-39. Link to PDF.
  • “Independent Animators and the Artisanal Mode, 1949-1989,” in Animation, Ed. Scott Curtis (Rutgers, 2019): 103-130. Link Here.
  • “Trade Tattoos: Len Lye’s Animation Stencils and Programmed Movement,” in The Long Dream of Waking: New Perspectives on Len Lye, Ed. Paul Brobbel. (Auckland: Canterbury University Press, 2017): 184- 203. Link to PDF.
  • “Comics (as) Journalism: Teaching Joe Sacco’s Palestine to Media Students” [Co-authored with Sarah Henstra], in Critical Approaches to Teaching Graphic Narratives, Ed. Lan Dong. (McFarland, 2012): 243-260. Link Here.
  • “Ghosts in the Machine: The Body in Digital Animation,” in Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture, Ed. Esther Peeren and Maria del Pilar Blanco. London: Continuum (2010): 225-238. Link to PDF.

Exhibition and Catalog Essays:

  • “Threads and Fibres: Animating Textiles (Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2024). Link to PDF.
  • “Dots, Lines, Washes: Animating Ink” (Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2023). Link to PDF.
  • “Flesh & Bone: Bella Blanca and Kelsey Brill-Funk” (Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons, 2023).
  • “Refractions: Mia Milardo and Weiwei Wu” (Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons, 2023). Link to PDF.
  • “Where is Everyone? Faculty as Resident Artists.” This Exhibition is not an Exhibition (Libby Leshgold Gallery, 2022). Link to PDF.
  • “Celina de Leon: I am the same, I am always changing” (RBC Media Gallery, 2022). Link to PDF Here.
  • “Lens on Lye: Turn on, Turn in” (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2020). Link here.
  • “Robert Breer’s Blazes: Animation on Fire.” (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2018). Link to PDF Here.
  • “Spotlight on Len Lye’s Filmmaking Tools: The Stencil” (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2017). Link here.
  • “How the Sausage Gets Made: Recent works by Weronika Stepien and Stephen Wichuk” (Grunt Gallery, 2016). Link to PDF here.
  • “A Surrealism that Wasn’t Meant to Be: Soviet Film and the Irrational” [co-authored with R. Bruce Elder] in Conscious Hallucinations: Filmic Surrealism (Deutsches Filmmuseum, 2014). Link to PDF.
  • “Oskar Fischinger’s Wax Experiments.” Defining Experimental Animation (Cinema Borealis, 2013). Link to post.