Prof. Kirsten Moana Thompson

Dr. Kirsten Moana Thompson - CV (PDF)

Kirsten Moana Thompson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Film and Media at Seattle University. Previously, she taught at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand and Wayne State University in Detroit. She teaches and writes on animation and color studies, as well as New Zealand and Pacific studies, classical Hollywood cinema and German cinema. She is the author of  Apocalyptic Dread: American Cinema at the Turn of the Millennium(SUNY Press, 2007);  Crime Films: Investigating the Scene(Wallflower, 2007); and co-editor with Terri Ginsberg of  Perspectives on German Cinema(GK Hall: NY, 1996). She is currently working on several new books including Animated America: Intermedial Promotion from Times Square to Walt Disney and  Color, Visual Culture and Animation.