{{Short description|Canadian film academic}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox academic | occupation = Film scholar | alma_mater = {{ublist|Dalhousie University|Queen's University at Kingston|University of Manitoba}} | discipline = Film studies | sub_discipline = {{flatlist| * Animated film * cinema of Japan }} | workplaces = Wilfrid Laurier University | thesis_url = https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/b131e349-14fe-4de4-b14b-a77cdc83cf1e/content | thesis_title = Animating Transcultural Communities: Animation Fandom in North America and East Asia from 1906–2010 | thesis_year = 2011 | doctoral_advisor = {{flatlist| * Diana Brydon * William Lee * Eugene P. Walz}} }} '''Sandra Annett''' is a Canadian film academic. She is author of ''Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions'' (2014) and ''The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media'' (2024), as well as co-editor of the academic journal ''Mechademia''. She is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
==Biography== Sandra Annett was educated at Dalhousie University, where she got her BA in Honours English in 2004, and at Queen's University at Kingston, where she got her MA in English in 2006.<ref name="www.wlu.ca" /> In 2011, she received her PhD in English and Film Studies from the University of Manitoba;<ref name="www.wlu.ca" /> her thesis, titled ''Animating Transcultural Communities: Animation Fandom in North America and East Asia from 1906–2010'', was supervised by Diana Brydon, William Lee, and Eugene P. Walz.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Sandra |first=Annett |title=Animating Transcultural Communities: Animation Fandom in North America and East Asia from 1906–2010 |date=2011 |access-date=2024-01-17 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Manitoba |url=https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/b131e349-14fe-4de4-b14b-a77cdc83cf1e/content}}</ref> In 2011, she became part of the Wilfrid Laurier University staff, where she became an Associate Professor of Film Studies.<ref name="www.wlu.ca">{{Cite web |title=Sandra Annett |url=https://www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-arts/faculty-profiles/sandra-annett/index.html |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Wilfrid Laurier University}}</ref> She also became their film studies program's resident specialist in digital and new media studies.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-10-09 |title=Visual arts professor visits UNG to discuss exchange opportunities and present research paper |url=https://ung.edu/news/articles/2017/10/visual-arts-professor-visits-ung-to-discuss-exchange-opportunities-and-present-research-paper.php |access-date=2024-01-17 |work=University of North Georgia}}</ref>
As an academic, Annett specializes in both the relationship between media technology and visual audience perception and in film studies, especially in animated film and the cinema of Japan.<ref name="www.wlu.ca" /> In 2014, she published the book ''Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137476104 |access-date=2024-01-17 |date=2014 |doi=10.1057/9781137476104 |last1=Annett |first1=Sandra |isbn=978-1-349-50275-2 }}</ref> Her next book, ''The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media'', which discusses the relationship between animation and interoception, was published in April 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Flesh of Animation |url=https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-flesh-of-animation |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=University of Minnesota Press}}</ref> She and Frenchy Lunning are the co-editors of ''Mechademia'', an academic journal on Japanese popular culture.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-09-01 |title=Editorial Team |url=https://www.mechademia.net/contact/editorial-team/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Mechademia}}</ref>
==Publications== *''Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions'' (2014)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Emmett |first=Neil |date=2015-01-29 |title=Book Review: 'Anime Fan Communities' by Sandra Annett |url=https://www.cartoonbrew.com/books/book-review-anime-fan-communities-by-sandra-annett-108391.html |access-date=2024-01-17 |work=Cartoon Brew}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hemmann |first=Kathryn |date=2017-09-15 |title="Anime fan communities: Transcultural flows and frictions," by Sandra Annett |url=https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/1093 |journal=Transformative Works and Cultures |volume=25 |doi=10.3983/twc.2017.01093 |issn=1941-2258|doi-access=free }}</ref> *''The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media'' (2024)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Parry |first=Jack |date=2024-07-19 |title=The Flesh of Animation |url=https://blog.animationstudies.org/?p=6804 |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=animationstudies 2.0}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Sorrento |first=Matthew |date=2024-07-30 |title=Connecting to the Illusions – The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media |url=https://filmint.nu/the-flesh-of-animation-sandra-annett-book-review-william-blick/ |access-date=2025-01-09 |work=Film International}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tiwari |first=Mansi |date=2024-10-01 |title=Book review: The flesh of animation: Bodily sensations in film and digital media By Sandra Annett. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2024. pp. 288 |url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/262177/ |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=Journal of Popular Culture |pages=373–374 |doi=10.1111/jpcu.13378}}</ref>
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