Animating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History is available for preorder: upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Animat…. This book has been a long time coming, but it's almost here!

🚨 Mark your calendars! Abstract submissions open September 1st! 🗓️ Don't miss your chance to share your insights and research with our community. Get ready to submit and showcase your work!

Academic friends, please consider asking your library to order a copy of "Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, Anxiety." @drjenniferkokai and I would be ever so grateful! rowman.com/ISBN/978166693…

Excited to share my newest Disney exhibition research with the UNCG community and alongside such amazing colleagues. Please join us if you can. This is going to be fun! 🤩 🤩 weatherspoonart.org/events/art-his…

Assistant Lecturer Writing & Literature (Permanent Wholetime Contract) ATU Sligo atu.ie/academic-jobs

I am so excited to share that my article "Re-heating the 'First' Thanksgiving" has been published today online in the journal Critical Studies in Television! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

It's the official release day for DISNEY PARKS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN IDENTITY: TOURISM, PERFORMANCE, ANXIETY by @drjenniferkokai and me. You can read the full introduction at the Amazon listing for the book! amazon.com/Disney-Parks-C…

#CFP: “Oh, You Beautiful Doll”: Childhood, Gender, Play, and Culture Date: Friday, March 21, 2025 In-Person/Online (Hybrid) University of Pittsburgh Submission deadline for proposals: February 10th, 2025 Email: [email protected] Website: gsws.pitt.edu/oh-you-beautif…

Conference days are good days -- especially with this all-star panel! Brittany (Bee) Eldridge Dr. Peter Cullen Bryan (https://linktr.ee/pcbryan) @Mythinginaction NE PopCulture Assn #nepca2024

We have an event reminder! On Wednesday, the 23rd, 3-5p BST/10-12p ET, we are joining forces with International Journal of Disney Studies for the IJoDS Writing and Ideas Session. Join Principal Editor Dr. Rebecca Rowe to discuss your ideas and demystify the publication process! disnetwork.wixsite.com/disnet/events

Plenty of time to sign up for Wednesday, where Principal Editor Dr. Rebecca Rowe will hear pitches and talk though how the article process works - from peer review to publication - and what our journal does that sets us apart! Just follow the link: 3-5p BST/10-12p EDT/7-9a PDT

The Fantasy/Animation podcast continues with this look at Pixar's computer-animated film Monsters, Inc. (2001) featuring special guest John Airlie, a specialist in the localisation and dubbing of animated features for international markets! #dubbing #voice fantasy-animation.org/all-episodes/e…

Delighted and proud to get a copy of my wonderful former Phd student Dr Allison Bumsted's first book, Don't Let the Name Fool You: Teenset, Teen Magazines, and Rock Journalism, published in ppb by Mississippi University Press. It's a great piece of scholarship, and a beautiful book.

#CFP: Fairy-Tale trouble and the art of fluidity: gender, genre, media Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge 21-22 March 2025 Deadline: 20 December 2024 [email protected] crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/44790/

So excited to see this out: "New Agrabah, Same Old Disney Orientalism: Commodity Racism and Western Effacement of the “Middle East" in the new volume, The Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical" DOI: doi.org/10.1093/oxford… academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

Today I left academia. Closures and budgets, it was time for me to leave. I loved being a professor and I always will, but it was not a stable. I look forward to still collaborating and taking part in academia and publishing. I will miss being an educator with all my heart.