Part I: Don't know where to start with Disney Studies? Take a gander at our Welcome essay by our crack editoral team of Dr. Rebecca Rowe and alleged-monarch Dr Robyn Muir (she/her) - on the state of Disney Studies, the reason for the Journal, a glimpse of the future: intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…

Want to learn more about the changes that happened when the Japanese-made Detective Pikachu game was adapted by an American film studio? Check out my new blog post about it now: childlitassn.wixsite.com/intlcommittee/…

Rebecca Rowe, editor of International Journal of Disney Studies, tells us more about the field of Disney Studies. To watch the full interview click here 👉ow.ly/GXEX50UnCSe Dr. Rebecca Rowe International Journal of Disney Studies Dr Robyn Muir (she/her) #DisneyStudies

Part II: Our first article, "Conservatives Watch Cartoons: The Rise of Disney, The Right and Cultural Criticism in The 1990s," comes from Alex Pinelli and explores conservative film criticism of the Disney Renaissance. part of a larger retrenchment of... intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…

Part III: Matt Weaver's (Dr. Matt Weaver) article "‘We’re Not Quite There Yet… But We Will Be’: Identifying Shifts in The Walt Disney Company’s LGBTQ+ Representation" charts the present engagement with queerness through Lightyear and Strange World... intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…

Want to know more about how animators design worlds for anthropomorphic animals? Check out my new article, "'All Creatures Great and Small, Welcome': Animating Accessible World Design" now! dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.1…

Part IV: Carolyn Yiquan Wang's "Re-Imaging Empowered Princesshood Against the Rise of The Fourth-Wave Feminism: A Thematic Study of Disney’s Princess Live-Action Remakes" considers the efforts to engage with Fourth Wave Feminism... intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…

Part V: Evan Nooe (Evan Nooe) charts the development of Disney Springs with "Making History at Disney Springs: Florida’s Past as Themed Tourism," examining the ways in which it incorporated different architectural styles from... intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…

Part VI: Susan E. Swanberg takes us for ride with "Revisiting Disney’s The Living Desert: A Documentary or A Wildlife Fable Filmed in A Mythical Desert?" considering one of the perennial questions of documentary film and of Disney writ large... intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…

I am excited to announce that my article, "Watching Like a Kid: Connections between Kidults and Children’s Media", has been published! This is my theory about why adults love kids' media so much, and I'm so excited to share it with y'all! utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/je…

Part VII: Anita Jandaly and Sandra Chang-Kredl's "‘To Infinity and Beyond’? A Textual Analysis of The Representation of Friendship Between Buzz And Woody In Disney–Pixar’s Toy Story Films" asks the little questions: how does a friendship between two... intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…

Part X: well, that's all there is for the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Disney Studies - nothing else to talk about...wait, what's that? It's Hannah Helm's (Dr Hannah Helm) music! We have COMMENTARIES... intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…

In honour of our 40th anniversary we are giving away a free article every week for the entire year. And to wrap up 2024 we have a whole ISSUE that is free to read. Read the International Journal of Disney Studies 1.1 here👉ow.ly/XYYE50UtmQc #Intellect40 International Journal of Disney Studies

New podcast alert! Come hear @DrAmyMDavis, Dr. Peter Cullen Bryan (https://linktr.ee/pcbryan), @S_Mittermeier, and I talk about the International Journal of Disney Studies: shows.acast.com/the-history-on…

Meet my lovely new co-editors of International Journal of Disney Studies!

Want to know about how authors build storyworlds? Come listen to my interview on this episode of The Storyteller's Shelf Podcast! youtube.com/watch?v=7MOZjR…

Love villains? Love to hate villains? Then check out this article about a new show at Disney World's Hollywood Studios in which I talk about why villains have changed so much: apnews.com/article/florid…

Meet my very good boy! This is my new service dog puppy, Dug! He's 12 weeks old in these photos and already knows a ton of commands. He's also sweet and full of joy. So glad to have him in my life!

It's publication day for Children's Literature and Culture: An Introduction, which introduces 20 different areas of culture that impact children's literature, including everything from race to censorship to libraries. Check it out now!: routledge.com/Childrens-Lite…