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With expertise in the areas of animation history and theory, video game studies and American film, Kara Lynn Andersen brings an interdisciplinary and academic approach to cinema studies. 

Credentials

• Assistant Professor at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, 2015-19
• Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College CUNY, 2010-19
• Faculty at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, 2006-07
• Dissertation: Immaterial Materiality: Collecting in Live-Action Film, Animation and Digital Games. Director: Lucy Fischer. Readers: Marcia Landy, Adam Lowenstein, Randall Halle.

Publications

• “The Lego® Movies, A Lego® Collector, and the Problem with Representations of Collecting in Film.” Recollecting Collecting: A Film and Media Perspective. Lucy Fischer, ed. Wayne State UP. 2023.
• "European Horror Games: Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ and the European Game Industry." Kara Lynn Andersen and Karra Shimabukuro. Fragmented Nightmares: Transnational Horror Across Visual Media. Eds. Dana Och and Kirsten Strayer. New York: Routledge, 2013.
• “My Stockings. Lip Them”: Consuming Japan Through Film and Video Games. Post Script Special Issue: Japanese Popular Culture in Films, Spring/Winter 2009.
• “Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience,” published in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. Vol. 7.2, 2005.
• “The Sims Series.” Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming, 2nd edition. Ed. Mark J.P. Wolf. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2021.
• Girls’ Games.” Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming, 2nd edition. Ed. Mark J.P. Wolf. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2012 (1st edition) & 2021 (revision for 2nd edition).
• “Animal Crossing.” Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming, 2nd edition. Ed. Mark J.P. Wolf. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2012 (1st edition) & 2021 (revision for 2nd edition).
• “Girls’ Games.” Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming. Ed. Mark J.P. Wolf. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2012.
• “Animal Crossing.” Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming. Ed. Mark J.P. Wolf. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2012.

Presentations

• “Uncomfortable Spaces: Niki Lindroth von Bahr and Environmental Psychology.” Society for Animation Studies Conference. Rowan University (June 13, 2023).
• “Shhhhhhh!: The Circulation of Among Us-Themed Fan Animation in 2020.” Society for Animation Studies Conference, (June 15, 2021, online).
• “’You're Not that Kind of Predator’: Racialized Voice Acting and Transracial Voice Casting in Animation.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, Washington (March 14, 2019).
• “‘Take This Cage of Snakes and Throw It at Her’: Cartoon Aesthetics in the films of Stephen Chow.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada (March 17, 2018).

Organizations

• Society for Animation Studies
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies