Assistant Professor, Film, Television, and Media; Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellow
About
Mihaela Mihailova's research interests include animation, film and media theory, early Soviet cinema, contemporary Eastern European cinema, video games, and comics. She has published articles in animation: an interdisciplinary journal, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, and Kino Kultura. She has also contributed chapters to Animating Film Theory (ed. Karen Beckman) (co-written with John MacKay), Animated Landscapes: History, Form, and Function (ed. Chris Pallant), and the forthcoming Animation Studies Reader(eds. Bella Honess Roe, Nichola Dobson, Amy Ratelle, and Caroline Ruddell).
Dr. Mihailova is currently working on a book manuscript, Drawing (on) Ideology: Contemporary Animated Media in Russia and the United States. Through a comparative analysis of contemporary studio animation and visual effects produced in the United States and Russia, the project examines how animated media’s relationship to reality articulates national ideologies in the era of digital globalization. She is also editing a collection of essays titled Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA’s Stop-Motion Witchcraft for Bloomsbury Publishing (forthcoming in 2019).
