The Routledge Companion to Animation Studies

Nichola Dobson is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in Animation at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Founding editor of Animation Studies (2006 - 2011) and Animation Studies 2.0 (2012-2020), she has published on animation, television genre and fan fiction, including Norman McLaren: Between the Frames (2018) and Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons, Volume 2 (2020). She was President of the Society for Animation Studies between 2015 and 2019. She is currently the Director of the Animation Research Network Scotland.

Paul Taberham is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Arts University Bournemouth. He is the author of Lessons in Perception: The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist, and Poetics of Animation: Medium, Context, and Aesthetics. He is also co-editor of Cognitive Media Theory, Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital, and Introduction to Screen Narrative: Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension. A Fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and an editorial board member for animation: an interdisciplinary journal, his research approaches film and animation through the analytic tradition, with particular attention to poetics, narratology, and cognition.